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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928

329 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 17

No Survivors. Steamer Sunk in Collision. London, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 6

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

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Plane Wrecked. Lucky Escape of Passengers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 11

A plane with which Flight—Licul had made trips recently with passengers from Adelaide to Port Victor and back was wrecked in a…

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Channel Collision Single Survivor From Sunken Steamer Russian Vessel's Strange Action. London, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 5

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

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Smallpox. Outbreak on Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 7

The steamer City of Palermo, from Singapore, and Java, having reached Semaphore anchorage, S.A., on Sunday afternoon, with a coloured cook's…

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Smallpox. Outbreak on Steamer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 16

The steamer City of Palermo, from Singapore, and Java, having reached Semaphore ahchorage S.A. on Sunday afternoon, with a coloured cook's…

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Steamer Troubles Ulimaroa May Be Tied Up. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 5

It is possible the steamer Ulimaroa will be tied up indefinitely as a result of trouble with the crew. There was no sign of a settlement…

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Channel Collision Single Survivor From Sunken Steamer Russian Vessel's Strange Action. London. Feb. 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 12

The P. and 0. steamer Moldavia, in response to an S.O.S. call, picked up a man in the English Channel among a large quantity of wreckage,…

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Overtime Dispute Crew of Largs Bay Walk Ashore

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 2

As a protest against the alteration in the award made by Judge Beeby in the Arbitration Court last week, the seamen, firemen, and cooks of the…

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Steamer Disaster. Soviet Marine Laws. Moscow, March 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1928 · page 2

The president of the Soviet Merchant Marine says that the captain of the steamer Tovarisch, which collided with the Aleantara in the…

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Falling Plank Death on a Steamer. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 March 1928 · page 2

Joseph Vega, aged 22, a Portuguese sailor, was killed, and another, Joseph Edolson, had his skull fractured this morning on the steamer Tuscaloosa,…

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Steamer Troubles. Montoro May Br Tied Up. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1928 · page 5

Unless the stewards of the steamer Montoro agree to sign fresh articles to-day, the vessel will be tied up. There has been no further…

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Terrific Explosion. Four Storey Distillery Wrecked. Three Workmen Killed. London, March 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1928 · page 5

With a deafening roar at 3 o'clock this morning the Distillers' Company's four-storey distillerying at Alexandra Dock, Kings Lynn,…

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Terrific Explosion. Four Storey Distillery Wrecked Three Workmen Killed London March 12

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 2

With a deafening roar at 3 o'clock this morning the Distiller's Company's four—storey distillerying at Alexander Dock Kings Lynn…

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Unsinkable Lifeboat. Seventy Year Old Inventor London to New, York Voyage London. March 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 4

The. Dutch unsinkable lifeboat, named Schuttvaer, 21 feet long, the result of 18 years exprimentation, left Westminster Bridge for New York,…

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Unsinkable Lifeboat. Seventy Year Old Inventor. London to New York Voyage London, March 19

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 2

The Dutch unsinkable lifeboat, named Schuttvaer, 21 feet long. the result of 18 years experimentation, left Westminster Bridge for New York…

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Steamer Stranded Merimbula Goes Ashore. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 5

The Illawarra steamer Merimbula is ashore on the South Coast. The vessel loft Sydney at 5.15…

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Wild Scenes on Ferry Steamer Women Knocked Down

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 4

There were wild scenes on the ferry steamer, Lady Carrington, on Saturday night. Three sailors, accompanied by women, were returning from a dance at…

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American Steamer Ashore on a Reef, Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 5

The Director of Navigation has received advice that the American steamer Steelmaker, Went ashore on Mitchell Reef at the southern and of…

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On the Rocks South Coast Steamer "Merimbula."

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 March 1928 · page 3

With her bottom badly holed, and lying 38 feet up on the rocks, the Merimbula, one of the best known South Coast passenger steamers, was…

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Ship Wrecked. Strikes Mitchell Reef. Suva, March 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1928 · page 6

The American ship, Steelmaker, bound from Noumaca to Honolulu was wrecked on Mitchell Reef in the Ellice Group yesterday. The crew was not…

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