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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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National Tempers Rise as Result of Happenings in and About Spain Britain Will Protest to Rebels Shot at Steamer High Handed German Action Reported Italian Landing

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: The British Ambasador to Spain, who is at Hendaye, has been instructed to call the attention of the Bargos authorities to incideals in which the British…

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Oldest Ship Ketch Built 150 Years Ago Still Sails the Seas

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 3

LONDON: The Ceres was built one hundred and fifty years ago, but the average life of a ship is between twenty and thirty years…

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Sharks on Patrol Off Wrecked Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday: A terrifying experience on board a wrecked steamer which was surrounded by sharks was described by the crew of the Bury…

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Boat Ashore No Sign of Bodies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

DEVENPORT, Friday: The yacht, Star, In which Manoel Fienti and a girl companion, Betty Brown, left here on Sunday, has been found…

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Forbidden to Land But She Got Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: A woman was prevented from landing at Sydney from the Niagara has avoided the authorities. The woman on two…

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Gale Takes Toll of 35 in Shipwreck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: Thirty lives were lost in the disaster to the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden In Pentland Fifth yesterday…

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Salvage Ship Locates Nongara Wreck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 5

GENOA, Monday: The salvage ship Artiglio has located the wreck of the British Navigation Company's Nongara, which was…

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Machine Wrecking German Agents' Mission In Russia Conspiracy Trial

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 5

MOSCOW, Tuesday: The first foreign witness in the trial of the 17 men charged with conspiracy gave evidence to-day. He is a German engineer named Stein. He testified that he .was…

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Searchers Out Report of Plane Wreck at Burrinjuck

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 5

YASS, Wednesday: Police and civilians set out this morning to investigate the report that an object resembling a wrecked…

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Battleship Hits Steamer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: The £3000, 000 battleship Malaya which left Devonport on December 31 after a three years re-fit costing…

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Plane Crash At Mascot Machine Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Keith M. Swan, 32, of Beach Road, Edgecliff, a motor garage proprietor, crashed in a Moth plane on the bank of Cook's River,…

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6 DROWNED Tragedy Off Manly Launch Wrecked In Tremendous Seas

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: Six men were drowned and three others were saved only after desperate efforts by rescuers when the…

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Steamer Fired On: Sinking

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: The Admiralty states that an unknown steamer reports haying been fired upon by an unknown warship in…

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Half Darwin Wrecked Night of Terror Crouching For Safety Fences Whipped From Ground

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Net one building in Darwin escaped damage in Wednesday night's cyclone, the worst for 40 years, and half the buildings in the town have been wrecked…

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ABANDONED Steamer Haiping Is Left Crew Rescued

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

BRISBANE, Monday: The freighter Haiping, of 1948 tons, which had been in distress on the Queensland coast since late on…

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Bombs for Rebels Dutch Steamer Taken

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: The Spanish rebels, attempting to re-organise the Italians at Padilla de Hita, are desperately resisting the…

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Rebel Warships Active Steamer Wrecked Believed to be in French Territorial Waters British Ships Stopped

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: The Spanish steamer, Mar Caspio (3080 tons), bound from Newcastle-on-Tyne with coal for a Fremch factory at Bayonne, went ashore after it hand been shelled by insurgant auxillaries within sight of Cape Bretoin…

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Barrallier Many Tents Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

BARRALLIER: Ideal weather prevailed here for the holidays up till Sunday, with it shade temperature of 90 degrees…

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Sloop Ashore On Stradbroke Island

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: Cast ashore on the outer beach of Stradbroke Island near Jumpin Pin, during the week-end, while…

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Round the World on a Honeymoon Trip in Tiny Schooner

The Burrowa News · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 3

Adrian Seligan, a young Englishman, and his wife are coming to Australia in the 295-ton sailing vessel, Cap Pillar, on a romantic honeymoon…

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