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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928

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Oranges As Ammunition Ship-Wrecked Crew and Natives

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 4

Thrilling experiences of shipwrecked American seamen, whose vessel ran ashore on the rock-strewn coast of Tunis, were related when the crew…

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250 Reported Drowned Soviet Steamer in Black Sea BERLIN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 2

An unconfirmed report has been received here that the Soviet steamer Ogoza founded in the Black Sea at the height of a storm, and 250 were…

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Fire on Steamer Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 2

A serious fire is believed to have occurred on board the Norwegian steamer Yarra in the port of Gizo, in the Solomon Islands…

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Is the Steamer Doomed? Most of the Ships Now Built Are Motor-Driven

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

The largest motor-driven vessel in the world, the 22,500 ton Asturias, of the South American service of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company,…

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Steamer Lady Loch Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 2

Referring to-day to the action taken by the Seamen's Union in having declared "black" the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service steamer Lady…

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Fascists As Wreckers Soviet Exhibition Raided BRUSSELS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 January 1928 · page 4

A gang of several score of Fascists invaded a Soviet exhibition. The leader blew a whistle and a portion of the gang p'nned…

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Ocean Island Wreck Ship Abandoned by Crew MELBOURNE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 2

A message has been received here announcing the wreck of the steamer Ocean. Transporter on the coast of Ocean Island, where she had just…

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Schooner's Long Trip Little Damage to Wheat Cargo LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 4

The hatches, of the schooner "E. R. Sterling," which' had a thrilling voyage from Australia lasting nine months, were opened to-day, and it…

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Channel Collision Italian Steamer Sunk Only One Survivor LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 2

The P. and .O. liner Moldavia, in response to an S.O.S. picked up a man in the English Channel, along a large quantity of wreckage,…

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Hinchcliffe's Plane Reports of Wreckage New York

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

A Bangor (Maine) message reported that on Tuesday afternoon a Canadian aeroplane searching for Hinchcliffe sighted what is believed to be…

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To-day's Cables Shipwrecked Crew Rescue After Privations Safe Arrival at Capetown CAPETOWN

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 2

A thrilling story has been brought here by the rescue ship, Kildalkey from Kerguelen. On February 12 the French sealing…

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The Merimbula Ashore

The Yass Courier · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 3

The last issue of the ‘Eden Mag. net’ says:—“Our genial Captain O’Connor piloted the s.s Meriumbula alongside early on this last day…

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Merimbula Wreck Steamer May Be Abandoned SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 2

Indications are that the Merimbula, which went ashore on Beecroft Head on Tuesday, will become a total wreck. An official of the Illawarra and…

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Stranded Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 6

A messages from the vessel. Steel marker, which went aground on the Mitchell reef, states that the ship was two thirds on the reef. The sea was…

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Merimbula Abandoned Auction Sale of Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 4

It was found on Friday that the steamer Merimbula, which went ashore on Beecroft Head on Tuesday, had settled considerably by the stern,…

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Steamer Aground Saved From Sinking Members of Crew Safe SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 2 April 1928 · page 2

Further particulars concerning the grounding of the coastal steamer Iron Chief on Mermaid Rock, off the North Coast of…

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Stranded Steamer Gosford

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 April 1928 · page 2

The steamer Gosford is still on the beach at Etterlong, although through the night the action of the tides and waves turned her completely round…

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V.Cs. of the Lifeboat Three Given Last Year

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 2

Supreme heroism by lifeboatmen during the year just ended has been recognised by the award of three gold medals the V.C. of this particular…

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Iron Chief Wreck Auctioned for £550 SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 6

The wreck of the steamer Iron Chief and her eago of 11,227 sleepers were sold yesterday for £550, at the auction rooms of Messrs. F. R Strange, Ltd…

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Steamer Aground In Moreton Bay BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 4

The Dutch steamer Houtman wen' aground at Green Buoy, Moreton Bay at three o'clock this morning. Tugs have been sent to the rescue. The…

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