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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

17 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Stir on Steamer Amusing Anti-Climax NAPLES

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 3

Much wirelessing from the steamer carrying parcels addressed to the King and Duke of Pistola from America, and…

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Engine Wrecks Itself

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 3

The residential portion of Forbes will be without street lights until repairs are made to an engine which was wrecked at the power station…

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Steamer Adrift Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 28 March 1932 · page 4

An S.O.S. signal from the Holyman line steamer Marrawah shortly after noon to-day was followed by an intimation that the engines of the…

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Wreckers and Builders Lang And Democracy (Contributed)

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 April 1932 · page 3

Every one of us is by virtue of our citizenship a builder or a wrecker. The wrecker is having his fling among us because there is not in…

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Big Cyclone Hits New Hebrides Steamer Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 3

Port Villa, N. Hebrides, Wednesday. A cyclone passed over here on Monday and Tuesday. Houses and stores were unroofed…

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Policy of U.A.P. "War on the Wreckers" Country Party and Unity Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 2

''Nothing is sacred to this outlaw Government," said the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Stevens, to the huge audience which had filled the Sydney Town Hall last night from 7 o'clock…

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TORNADO Wrecks Gaol Many Are Killed Prisoners Escape Calcutta

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 3

Twenty-two warders, convicts and political, prisoners were killed and over 100 injured when the Mymensingh…

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Liner Ashore In Sydney Harbour SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1932 · page 3

During a dense fog which enveloped the Sydney Harbour this morning the liner Mariposa; from San Francisco, grounded on a sand bank near…

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Ferndale a Total Wreck ALGIERS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 20 June 1932 · page 3

Fifty members of the crew of the Aberdeen Commonwealth Steamer Ferndale, which struck a rock on Thursday night have been landed…

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Ships Collide Steamer Rammed LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 June 1932 · page 3

White the submarine Rainbow was heaving Portland Harbour to-day she came into collison with S.S. Premier a small pleasure steamer…

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Shipwrecked

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 July 1932 · page 4

ON a little island in the South Seas there was a little town in which my parents and myself lived. Now, it happened that a big liner…

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Ten Lives Lost Steamer Wrecked Off Victorian Coast Melbourne

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 July 1932 · page 2

Ten of the crew, including the master, were drowned when the 5O-year-old coastal steamer Casino foundered in Apollo bay…

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Battle Against Storm Steamer's Close Call Launceston

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 July 1932 · page 3

Captain Greece, of, the. steamer Kekerangu, which put ,into Beauty. Point last night" owing to a leak told the exciting story of a desperate battle…

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Launch Wrecked Terrifying Night

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 October 1932 · page 3

Ten men and a baby had a terrifying experience last night, when a launch, containing 99 people, was wrecked on the sow and pigs Reef…

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Mission Ship Wrecked on Reef VILA (New Hebrides), Wed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 November 1932 · page 3

The Melanesian Mission's auxiliary schooner Southern Cross has been totally wrecked on the Island of Aneityum on her maiden voyage from…

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Church Damaged Wreckers' Work

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 15 November 1932 · page 3

Youths are believed to be responsible for an act of gross sacrilege perpetrated at St. James's Church of England,…

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Ferry Steamer Lost Off South Coast Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 December 1932 · page 3

The tug, St. Olaves, returned to Sydney to-day after having lost the vehicular ferry Kedumba near Montague Island yesterday while being…

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