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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Moth, Plane Wrecked Occupants Escape Serious Injury. Ran Out of Petrol

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 5 September 1929 · page 2

A Moth, on the way from Melbourne to Sydney on Tuesday, ran out of petrol near Bethungra, at 3.30, and the pilot attempted a landing…

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British Boats Wrecked Fifteen Missing Highland Pride and Vimiera Example of Discipline Rotterdam

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 3

Two British vessels, an oil tanker and a passenger steamer, have been wrecked. In the case of the former fifteen men are missing. The British oil tanker vimlera caught fire. Three of the crew…

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At Port Stephens Wrecked Men Safe Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 5

A telephone message from part Stephens Highthouse says that the members of the crew of the pappinbarra, which was wrecked there…

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Appalling Horrors 145 Drowned Steamer Sinks Helsingfors

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 September 1929 · page 5

Victims, mostly women and children, totalling 145, were drowned when a lake steamer sank on Sunday…

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Steamer Ashore Fog and Heavy Seas Colombo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

A wireless message this evening from the steamer Hochst, which is aground off Minicoy Island, states that holds 1 and 2 are partly flooded…

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Wrecked Hochst Report From Hercules Colombo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 25 September 1929 · page 3

A wireless message from the tug Hercules states that it arrived at Minicoy Islands at noon on Sunday. A diver examined the bottom of the…

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Steamer Ashore Hopes for Floating Colombo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 September 1929 · page 5

The information received states that the disabled steamer [?]ochst is last aground amidships. Divers have investigated the visible…

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Further on Reef Disabled Steamer Colombo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 27 September 1929 · page 7

Attempts to refloat the disabled German steamer, Hochst, have been unsuccessful. The heavy swell and strong current have pushed the…

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Sea Tragedy Steamer on Rocks Furious Storm Oslo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1929 · page 3

During a furious storm the coastal steamer Haakon, travelling at 12 knots, was. speedily sunk at Floroe when she crashed…

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'Plane Wrecked at Bowral. Piloted by Son of Ex-local Resident

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 8 October 1929 · page 2

Failing to rise in a cross-wind at Bowral yesterday morning a Gipsy Moth 'plane crashed into some high tension wires and was hurled to the…

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Airmen Miss Death Amazing Plane Crash Total Wreck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 October 1929 · page 3

Two airmen, Mr. Les ,Burrows, and. Mr. Goya Henry, both of whom are wellknown in Goulburn figured in an amazing,…

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Surveying the Wreck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 October 1929 · page 2

So far as the Nationalists and Country parties are concerned later election figures bring no comfort. Labour has won a…

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Wall of Flame Steamer Explodes LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 3

there was a magnificent spectacle at Liverpool when the French steamer, Oklohama, laden with cotton, nitrate and sugar caught…

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Shipwrecked for Six Months "Strathmore" Echo Survivor's Story

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 21 October 1929 · page 3

One of the most amazing and tragic dramas of the sea—the historic wreck of the "Strathmore"— is recalled by the death at…

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Steamer on Fire London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 3

The owners of the steamer Telemachus have received a radio from the vessel's captain reporting a fire in two holds in the middle of the Indian…

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Rickshawmen's Riots History Repeats Itself Attacks on the Tramways Machinery Wrecked Shanghai

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 3

The machinery wrecking riots of the Luddites in England a hundred years ago are recalled by the riots in China to-day. a long standing dispute between rickshawmen and tram…

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Steamer Ashore Salvage Impossible Auckland (N.z.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 5

The union steamship Co's steamer kaikai went asohore on the wykanae reef near Gisborne during a southerly gale. the crew landed safely but…

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Steamer Refloated Wellington, N.Z.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 29 October 1929 · page 3

The stranded Kakhiki, cargo steamer which went ashore on the cast coast a few days ago, was refloated this morning…

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On the Rocks Trawler Ashore Salvage Likely Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 November 1929 · page 3

A vessel reported to morning, turns out to be the trawler Gunundand; of 217 tons register. The Grew of 12 reached the shore…

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Trawler Ashore Happened Quickly SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 November 1929 · page 3

The steamers Saros and Mernoo which stood by the trawler Gunnandaal arrived in Sydney this morning…

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