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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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Storm Causes Heavy Damage in Metropolitan Area Fierce Blow Launches Ashore Downpour of Rain Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1936 · page 5

Considerable damage was caused by a cyclone which was experienced in Sydney last night, particularly to yachts in the harbour,…

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ADRIFT! Steamer and Barge Broke Moorings Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 July 1936 · page 5

The Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer, Allyn River, and the Public Works Department's hopper barge Orestes, to which it was…

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Surgery at Sea Three Operations on Steamer

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 July 1936 · page 8

Three operations at sea, two of them for appendicitis, were performed by Dr. C. M. Lawrie, surgeon on the steamer Port Darwin, which arrived at Brisbane…

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Marooned Men Rescued by Steamer BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 2

Two men who were marooned on the waterless Havannah Island, north of Townsville, managed to attract the coastal steamer Innisfall by flashing…

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Three Days Without Food on Deserted Island Two Men Rescued by Crew of Coastai Steamer

Singleton Argus · Friday 17 July 1936 · page 1

Weak s.o.s. signals, flashed from a cheap torch with its battery nearly flat, attracted the coastal steamer Innisfail to Havanah Island, a small uninhabited waterless area of land, about 25 miles north of Townsville…

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Motor Trip Home by Steamer Maitland Women Bhisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1936 · page 2

Matron Mendham, of the Maitland Hospital, and Miss U. Gunn, also of West Maitland, who motored from Maitland to Darwin…

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A Total Wreck Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 July 1936 · page 10

The owners of the steamer Abel Tasman have received advice that the steamer is now a total wreck on the rocks at the entrance to…

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Abel Tasman Completely Wrecked

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 July 1936 · page 4

The steamer Abel Tasman, which was swept on to the rooks at Greymonth on, Saturday last is a total wreck, according to advice just…

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Bomb Wrecks Butcher's Shop in Ballarat om ec ers op m OUTRAGE! Gelignite Again £450 Loss Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 1

An explosion which shook the countryside for a considerable distance and practically wrecked the butcher's…

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Gelignite Explosion at Ballarat Butcher's Shop Almost Completely Wrecked. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Friday 31 July 1936 · page 6

A butcher's shop in Ballarat, conducted by Harold Lugg, was almost completely wrecked by a gelignite explosion early this morning…

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The Children's Corner A Section of Interest and Entertainment for Younq Folk. (All Rights Reserved) Model Schooner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1936 · page 3

You can sail this model, schooner on a Email stream, or a pond in the park. Make the hull from a piece of wood,…

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Aerial Search Abandoned. Wreckage Discovered. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON, Sunday Night

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 August 1936 · page 2

The aerial search for the Cloud of, Iona has been abandoned. Aeroplanes discovered wreckage of the air liner at Minkuier Reef, due south of Jersey…

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Bomb Outrage at Ballarat Second Time in Three Weeks Shop Wrecked. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 August 1936 · page 2

A bomb outrage at Ballarat, the second in less than three weeks, damaged the interior of the lock-up shop of Mr. Harold Lugg, at Eureka-street,…

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Aground Again The Steamer Idant Tug Refloated Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 1

A telegram from the pilot at Port Macquarie to the Maritime Services Board to-day announced that the steamer Idant grounded last night…

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38 Lives Lost French Steamer Founders a Sea Mystery London, August 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 August 1936 · page 5

The wreck of the French steamer Oranaise (1806 tons), with the loss of 38 lies is still a mystery, but it is now stated definitely that there was no…

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German Steamer Breach of International Law Claimed

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 1

Hopes of reaching agreement among the Powers on non-intervention in the Spanish civil war are fast disappearing again as a result of an incident outside Spanish territorial waters…

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Perilous Trip Battered Schooner 126 Days' Battle Capetown, Sept. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 September 1936 · page 9

"We are 126 days out from Liverpool and still alive; what more do you want?" said Captain Voss, of the battered 150-ton schooner, Diolinda, when…

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CHALLENGE "Gang of Wreckers" Labor Strife Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 September 1936 · page 1

There was another episode in the internecine strife in the Labor Movement to-day, when a meetinu of the Union…

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Explosion That Killed Policeman's Wife Home Wrecked Inquest on Geelong Crime Talk of Foul Calumny Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 September 1936 · page 1

Dozens of pieces of splintered timber lined the back of the Coroner's Court to-day at Geelong, when the inquest into the death of Mrs. Aimee Milne, 40, following an explosion at the…

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Shipping Warned Wreckage Reported SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 5

The Commonwealth Navigation Department to-day received a message from the Master of the Interstate steamer, Iron, Master, that he had…

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