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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Head On. Trams in Collision. Tangled Wreckage. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 August 1929 · page 5

When a tram crashed into another tram near the Coast Hospital this morning, two per-sons were severely injured…

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Mrs. Miller Wins. Women's Speed Race. After 'Plane Was Wrecked. Clevelend (Ohio), U.S.A., Aug. 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 August 1929 · page 5

Just [?] the start of the Women's Speed Race to-day, the 'plane in which Mrs. Keith Miller was to have competed, was wrecked through…

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Washed Ashore After Falling Overboard. Girl's Strange Story. Paris, Aug. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 August 1929 · page 5

A French housewife is now caring for Gloria Macalister, who was found semi-conscious on the beach at Montalivet this morning, and the British…

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Dead Penguins. Hundreds Washed Ashore. Capetown, Aug. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 12

Dead penguins by the hundreds were washed ashore on the Southwest Coast in good condition as a result of an epidemic causing…

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Death Plunge Steamer Rammmed by Tanker. Many Lives Lost. San Frfancisco. Aug. 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 7

The White Flier Line coastal steamer, San Juan, under Cap-tain Adolphe Asplund, was ram-med by a tanker in a dense fog…

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Head On. Trams in Collision. Tangled Wreckage. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 5

When a tram crashed into another tram near the Coast Hospital this morning, two persons were severely injured…

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Mrs. Miller Wins. Women's Speed Race. After Plane Was Wrecked. Cleveland (Ohio), U.S.A., Aug. 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 2

Just before the start of the Women's Speed Race to-day, the 'plane in which Mrs. Keith Miller was to have completed, was wrecked through…

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Steamer Rammed Collision in Dense Fog 70 Lives Lost

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 September 1929 · page 3

San Francisco, Saturday.—Seventy livest were lost yesterday morning when the coasting steamer San Juan was rammed and sunk in a dense fog…

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Terrific Explosion. Room Wrecked at Auckland. ' AUCKLAND

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 September 1929 · page 5

TWo persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal had been thrown on a fire last night…

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Death Plunge. Steamer Rammed by Tanker. Many Lives Lost. San Francisco, Aug. 30

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 2

The White Flier Line coastal steamer, San Juan, under Captain Adolphe Asplund, was rammed by a tanker in a dense fog, south of Half-moon Bay…

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Fire in Hold Steamer Returning to Durban. London, Aug 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 13

The British steamer Rhymnay, bound from Hull for Melbourne, has radioed that a fire broke out in the after-hold yesterday, and that the…

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Death Plunge Steamer Rammed by Tanker. Many Lives Lost. San Frfancisco, Aug. 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 12

The White Flier Line coastal steamer, San Juan, under Captain Adolphe Asplund, was rammed by a tanker in a dense fog…

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Terrific Explosion. Room Wrecked at Auckland, Auckland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 13

Two persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal hart been thrown on a fire last night…

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Eighty Drowned Steamer Turns Turtle. London. Sept. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 8

The worst disaster in Finland's history occurred when the late seramer Kuru,with 200 passengers left Tammerfors in the height of…

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Deportee. Missing on Vessel. May Have Escaped Ashore. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 5

W. Youlden of Victoria, a deportee from New Zealand, who absconded from Sydney in 1927 on a larceny charge, and who was returned to…

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Struck Rocks Nelson Liner Ashore. Crew and Passengers Saved. VIGO (Spain), Sept. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 5

Preserving admirable order and discipline sixty passengers and 150 officers and crew were safely landed when the Nelson…

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North Coast Steamer Ashore. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 2

The North Coast S. N. Company's steamer Bonalbo, ran ashore at Port Stephens in the gale to-day. The crew landed safely…

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Bar Dangerous. Vessel Ashore at Port Stephens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 5

The steamer Hunter did not leave for Sydney last night as by 9 O'clcok, the "bar dangerous" was reported from Signal Hill…

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Stranded Steamer. No Hope of Salvage Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 5

A telephone message from the lighthouse at port stepheus to-day stated that the members and crew of the pappinbarra were none the…

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New Coastal Steamer, Delayed by Heavy Weathleit Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 5

The new coastal stoamer cobargo which was expected to readir sydney two days age arrived this morning having been delayed by the heavy…

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