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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931

26 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2

Chinese Coffins. Washed Ashore on Beach

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 January 1931 · page 5

Chinese residents and their Consular body are concerned at the finding of several objects, which are thought. to be Chinese coffins, during the past week…

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Belgian Steamer Ashore on Mafia Island. Passengers and Crew Rescued

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 2

Capetown: The Belgian steamer "Kabinda" is ashore on Matin Island and is breaking up. The passengers and crew were taken off by the "steamer…

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Charred Bodies Continued From Page 4. Searching in Wreckage Napier's Ruin Auckland

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 2

Mutilated and burnt bodies were being found by search-parties among the smouldering ruins of Napier every few minutes this morning…

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Late Wires. Sydney, Friday. Shipwreck

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 4

Further particulars in regard to the loss of the dredge Nerus, in Bass Strait, show that Captain Fitzgerald and the mate (Harold Scarborough) lost their…

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Wrecked Dredge. Captain and Mate Lose Lives

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 4

Further particulars of the loss of the dredge "Nereus" in Bass Strait, shows that Captain Fitzgerald and the mate (Harold Scarborough) lost their lives…

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Malabar Wreck

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 4

The wreck of the motorship Mala­bar was sold at auction on Tuesday for £140. The cargo was knocked down for £41. About six years ago…

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Malabar Wrecked on the Rooks at Long Bay Vessel Becomes a Total Loss

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 4

The Burns, Philp motorship Malabar, bound from Melbourne to Darwin and Singapore, via Sydney, is a total wreck on the northern headland at Long Bay…

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The Malabar Wreck Captain Negligent

The Northern Champion · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 4

Captain George William Leslie, master of the 'Malabar, which ran aground in fog at Long Bay on April 2, was on Thursday found guilty of negligence…

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An Old Wreck. A Survivor's Story

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 7

Mr. Herbert Sinclair Lumsdaine, of Hornsby, brother, of the late Rev. E. S. Lumsdaine, of Emu Plains, near Penrith N.S.V., has had at least one…

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Ashore. Mystery Ketch. No Danger

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 9 June 1931 · page 2

Mystery seems to surround the circumstances in which an auxiliary ketch, said to be named "Crescent," went ashore late on Sunday afternoon…

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Mystery Ketch Ashore at Tuncurry

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 12 June 1931 · page 3

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

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Another Launch Mystery. Ashore on Tuncurry Beach

Macleay Argus · Friday 12 June 1931 · page 6

Thus the Tuncurry correspondent in Tuesday's issue of the "Wingham Chronicle":-- Mystery seems to surround the…

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Ketch Ashore

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 June 1931 · page 6

Late on Sunday night a man named Ivrock called at the Pilot Station and informed the Pilot (Mr. Chamberlaine) that an auxiliary ketch in which he and…

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Ketch Ashore Near Tuncurry

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 June 1931 · page 1

An auxiliary ketch, said to be named "Cres[?]nt," went ashore late on Sunday at afternoon on Tuncurry beach, about three miles south of Black Head. At…

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Missing Southern Cloud Rumor That Wreckage Found

The Northern Champion · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 4

A rumor tat the wreckage of a piano was found in the Cootamundra district has revived the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the air liner,…

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Lighthouse Steamer's Wireless

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 9 October 1931 · page 1

The Commonwealth Government lighthouse ship "Cape Otway" which left Sydney for Western Australia last Saturday for lighthouse…

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Wireless. Lighthouse Steamer's Wireless

Macleay Argus · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 8

The Commonwealth Government lighthouse ship Cape Otway, which left Sydney for Western Australia last Saturday for lighthouse inspection work…

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Coastal Shipping to Tie Up. Red Wreckers Reject Terms. SYDNEY

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 23 October 1931 · page 2

All crews of all interstate ships in all Australian ports to give 24 hours' notice at 5 p.m. to-day! That was the verdict of a mass…

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Steamer Nambucca Ashore

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 November 1931 · page 4

Word was received last night that the N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer Nambucca had gone ashore at the entrance, to the Nambucca River at 5.30 p.m.. The…

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Steamer Ashore at Nambucca Heads

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 20 November 1931 · page 4

The steamer "Nambucca" went ashore at Nambucca Heads late yesterday afternoon, after colliding with the break water. It is expected that…

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