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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Satoh Suicides Jumped From Steamer Jap. Tennis Star London, April 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 April 1934 · page 7

The British United Press Tokio correspondent reports that Satoh, who was travelling to Europe as captain of the Japanese Davis…

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Satoh Commits Suicide on Way to England for Davis Cup. Jumps From Steamer in Mid Ocean. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 April 1934 · page 6

The British United Press Tokio corespondent reports that Satoh, who w .s travelling to Europe with the japanese[?] Davis Cup tennis team to meet…

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Breaking Up. Disabled Steamer

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 3

The disabled steamer Jap is fast breaking up. During Thursday night the Jap's lifeboat, with a quantity of the ship fittings, was washed into…

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Satoh Commits Suicide. on Way to England for Davis Cup Jumps From Steamer in Mid-. Ocean

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 3

The British United Press Tokio correspondent reports, that Satoh, who was travelling to Europe with the Japanese Davis Cup tenuis team to meet…

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"HEARTLESS!" Widow Sentenced Physical Wreck London, April 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

The "Daily Herald's" Yienna correspondent says that the most heartless sentence of the series was imposed on the widow of the Socialist…

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WRECKED! Mine Disaster Many Killed Belgrade, April 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

Women relatives and children spent a night of suspense at the pit-head of the Kekank Colliery, near…

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"Boambee" Sinks. at Clarence Town. Crew Swim Ashore

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 2

When the captain and crew of the "Boambee" "turned in" on Friday night, they had no thoughts of a cold dip before daylight. The boat was…

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One Saved Graphic Sea Story Washed Ashore Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 1

A graphic account of the struggles for life of the four men or the Sagucnay, which foundered off New York Island, in the gale…

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Four Dead Ketches Wrecked Storm Sequel Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 10

Definite evidence has been established that the fishing ketches saguenay, of Port Fairy, and the Start, of Queensoliff, have been…

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Cash Side of Wrecked Marriages

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 4

In fixing the damages to be paid by co-respondents to aggrieved husbands for the loss of wives, common juries in the Divorce Court…

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Glen Martin Foundered Boambee Salvage Work Glen Martin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 3

A party of 30 boys find girls selected from the public Schools of Glen Martin find Clarence Town watched the salvaging of…

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Steamer Aground In Williams River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1934 · page 7

RAYMON TERRACE, Saturday. Owing to the shallow nature of the river, the steamer Stockrington, engaged in carting gavel betwen…

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Wreck of s.s. Maitland (1898)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 May 1934 · page 2

On Friday night, the 6th of May,The old ship met her doom, I was visiting Swan Bay and Could hear Stockton breakers…

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On Sandspit Coaster Nambucca Crew Ashore Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 1

The crew of the coaster Nambucca, which grounded on the sandepit at the entrance to Nambucca. Heads last night, left the…

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Local and General. Steamer Aground

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 2

Owing to the shallow nature of the river, the steamer Stockrington, engaged in carting gravel between Newcastle and Clarence Town in place of…

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Office Wrecked Crowd of Angry Men MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 3

The Excells Employment Agency, in King-street, was partly wrecked by a crowd of angry men. The men, about 150 of them who…

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Big German Balloon Wrecked Fatal Stratosphere Ascent

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1934 · page 2

Berlin, Tuesday.—Germany's biggest balloon, which oseended from Bitterfeld on Sunday morning for the purpose of measuring the intensity of the sun's…

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Oil Hardens Steamer Helpless Cold the Cause Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 May 1934 · page 8

Owing to the fuel oil in its bunkers setting so hard that the boilers were [?] being fed, the Blue Star line cargo steamer Trowan Star was…

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Wreckage of Air Liner Man Arrested for Robbing Dead Bodies

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 May 1934 · page 1

Buenos Ayres, Monday.—Accused of robbing the bodies of the dead, a man has been arrested hear where the wreckage of the air liner San Jose was…

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Coastal Wreck Mention at Inquest SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 1

The recent wreck of the coastal steamer Nambucca at Nambucca Heads, was recalled at the City Coroner's Court to-day when an inquest…

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