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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1922

25 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2

Schooner Lost in Cale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 January 1922 · page 45

H.M.A.S. Melbourne arrived at Auckland with the passengers and crew of the american schooner Helen B. Sterling, which was lost at sea. The captain states…

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A Shipwrecked Crew Picked Up

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 2

The crew of the sailing vessel Upton has been picked up off the Queensland coast in a starving condition. It appears that the vessel was…

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Steamer Collides with Whale

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 April 1922 · page 2

The steamer Eastern Light, which arrived at Sydney, to-day, had the unusual experience just after leaving Durban of running down a whale. The…

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Cuffs Wrecked by Snails

The Independent · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 4

You might not believe that he was serious if someone told you that seasnails are entirely responsible for the fact that England is an island. Yet…

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Telegrams Steamer on a Reef. Sydney, Thursday afternoon

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 3

Further news has-been received from Auckland concerning the grounding of the big stermer Wiltshire on the Great Barrier reef. A…

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Attempt to Wreck Express

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 28

What appears to have boon a deliberate attempt to wreck the Brisbane express was made between Eastwood and Epping on Tuesday afternoon. In a deep cutting…

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Boy Attempts to Wreck Express

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 3

Detectives succeeded in arresting, the perpetrator of the crime of attempting to wreck the Brisbane train, near Eastwood, yesterday. A…

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Latest Telegrams. the S.S. Wiltshire Wrecked. Several Lives Lost. SYDNEY, Thursday Evening

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 2

Particulars of the mishap to the steamer Wilshire show that two holds are full of water. The vessel is rocking about heavily. Several lives have…

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Latest Telegrams. the Wreck of the Wiltshire. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 2

The rescue of the 103 members of the crew of the Wiltshire was successfully accomplished last night at dusk. After two days and nights of peril, all…

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Wreck of Large Cargo Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 2

Messages from Auckland, N.Z., state that the cargo steamer "Wiltshire" went ashore on the Great Barrier Island, near Auckland, last, week…

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Letters That Wreck Lives. How Pests of the Pen Are Tracked

The Independent · Friday 16 June 1922 · page 4

More anoymous letters are being written to-day than ever before. This is the alarming verdict of a well-kn own handwriting and forgery…

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Prohibition Wreckage. (Published by Arrangement.) Finland's Experience

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 June 1922 · page 4

Like other countries that given the anti-liquor Bolsheviks an opportunity to prove the efficacy of prohibition as a social and economic…

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Steamer Held Up by "Job Control."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 5

In defiance of a ruling given specially in the Arbitration Court little more than an hour before by Mr. Justice Powers, the Seamen's Union refused to man the…

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(Published By Arrangement) Prohibition Wreckage. Finland's Experience

Tocumwal Guardian and Riverina Stock Journal · Friday 23 June 1922 · page 4

Like other countries that have given the anti liquor Bolsheviks an opportunity to prove the efficacy of' Prohibition as a social and…

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Steamer Re-floated. Sydney

The Independent · Friday 30 June 1922 · page 2

An Auckland message states that the steamship Roma, 7000 tons, was successfully re-floated at 8 a.m. to-day, and is steaming to…

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Steamer in Distress

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 28

Distress wireless calls from the steamer Ruapehu a day or two ago. The Ruapehu reported that the nature of the trouble was unknown, and the signals were fading…

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A Bridge Wrecked

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 3

Reports from various parts of the Monaro shire state that much damage has been caused to roads and. bridges by the flood rains. The roads from…

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The Wreck of the Itata

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 3

There are only half a dozen survivors from the steamer Itata. The vessel struck a rock which tore off part of the bottom, and sank in five…

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Disastrous, Shipwreck. a Very Heavy Death Roll

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 1

Two hundred and forty were drowned, mostly children, when the steamer Itala capsized and sank in a rough sea off the Island of Choros…

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Wreck of the Hammonia. German Women Thank the Britishers

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 15 September 1922 · page 2

Captain Day, whose ship saved 380 of the passengers of the Gorman steamer Hammonia which was lost in the Atlantic during a terri[?] storm…

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