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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931

136 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 7

Angry Mob Tenant Evicted Home Wrecked

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 3

Following the ejectment from a house in Ross-street, Brunswick, of a returned soldier, who is said to have defaulted in payment of…

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Convicts Revolt Machines Wrecked

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 7

Disturbances at the Yatala labour prison on Saturday and yesterday have been reported to the Compotroller of Prisons (Mr…

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Fireman Fined Theft from Steamer Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 7

For stealing two tins of herrings and ten tins of herrings and tomato sauce, James Smith 32), a fireman, was fined 10/…

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Steamer Turns Up SYDNEY (Nova Scotia), May 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 1

The steamer Eleanor Bolling, which yesterday was reported overdue from the Barbadoes, arrived here…

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Fireman Fined Theft from Steamer NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 1

For stealing two tins of herrings and ten tins of herrings and tomato sauce, James Smith 32), a fireman, was fined 10/…

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Gruel Hoax 'Plane Wreckage NOT S. Cloud Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 1

Officials at Australian National Airways stated that the place of wood which was found at Wollongong beach by a boy yesterday, is not part…

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Total Wreck Three Men Drowned

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 7

The steamer Progress drifted on to the rocks in Ohira Day, Cook Strait, New Zealand, and became a total wreck…

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Ketch Wrecked on Lonely Island Crew Marooned for Five Days

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 May 1931 · page 7

The 16-ton ketch Irazu, owned by a fisherman, was wrecked on New Year Island, in Bass Strait, last Thursday, when it was driven ashore…

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Wanted Man Missing From Steamer Tragedy Recalled London, June 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1931 · page 1

The police believe that the man who disappeaed from the steamer Royal Scott, between London and Edinburgh, was Mrs. Lewis, the…

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ASHORE Mystery Ketch No Danger Forster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 June 1931 · page 1

Mystery seems to surround the circumstances in which an auxiliary ketch, said to be named "Crescent," went…

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Disaster to Steamer Further Details. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Paris

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 June 1931 · page 2

Further, details of the disaster to a pleasure steamer in the Bay of Biscay show that the vessel was bound form Noir Mourtiers to Nantes, with 400…

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RIOTING French Communists Shops Wrecked Roubaix, June 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1931 · page 1

There was a recrudescence of rioting to-day. Three hundred Communists whom the police had prevented from demonstrating…

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Huge Wave Steamer Disaster Death Roll St. Nazaire. June 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 June 1931 · page 1

Sixty bodies, mostly those of women and children, who were drowned in the St. Philbert disaster, have been…

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Steamer Disaster Huge Death Boll. S[?] Nazaire (France)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 June 1931 · page 2

Sixty bodies, mostly those of women and children, who were drowned in the St. Philbert disaster, have been washed up on the beach…

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On Reef French Steamer SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1931 · page 1

A message from Noumea states that the French steamer La Perouse was stranded on the reef at Amedee Island early, this morning, owing to…

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Liner to End Her Own Life Dash Ashore with Flags Flying

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 June 1931 · page 2

With flags flying and her twin screws thrashing the water at their utmost speed, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company's 9000-ton liner Orita—for…

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No Danger Steamer Aground Tugs Helping Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 June 1931 · page 1

A message from Brisbane states that the interstate steamer, Arundal grounded last night in Freeman's Channel, Moreton Bay, but is in no…

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First Steamer. Sophia Jane at Newcastle. Centenary Last

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1931 · page 4

Saturday, June 13, was the centenary of the arrival of the first steamer, the Sophia Jane, in Port Hunter. About a month previously, during the…

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Steamer Aground Near Moruya SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1931 · page 5

The steamer Klanga, 338 tons, ran aground at Single Point, near Moruya. The vessel carried provisions and…

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Log on Line Attempt to Wreck

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 June 1931 · page 2

An attempt to wreck the branch line train through the Goulburn Valley to Murchison, Vic., was discovered by Mr. D. Campbel, of…

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