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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1995

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Bushwalkers find jet wreckage

Nota · Friday 5 May 1995 · page 13

The wreckage of an RAAF Maccni training jet which crashed near Gloucester in 1987 has been found in Barrington Tops National Park near Polblue, 70km north-west of Gloucester…

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Only a tramp steamer . . but what a great ship

Nota · Friday 18 August 1995 · page 26

“SS Bantam” was a Dutch tramp steamer which had seen better days, but she became a troop, munitions, fuel and any other supply carrier you care to mention…

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Launch of new shipwreck atlas

Nota · Friday 18 August 1995 · page 10

“The Shipwreck Atlas of New South Wales” has been launched. “New South Wales has more shipwrecks than any other state and the fate of more than 2,000…

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