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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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Four Aboard Steamer Taken to Hospital Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 4

When the steamer Morinda arrived to-day from the New Hebrides three passengers and a member of the crew were conveyed to hospital. The…

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Steamer Brings Casualties Four Injured During Voyage Lemonade Cap Injures Eye Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 5

When the steamer Merinda arrived to-day from the New Hebrides, three passengers and a member of the crew were conveyed to hospital…

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British Steamer on Fire After Air Raid Valencia. July 19

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 1

The British steamer Stanland caught fire to-day during a rebel air raid. There were no casualties, and all the cargo was J[?]…

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Damage to Coastal Steamer Estimate of £20,000 SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 3

Damage estimated at £28,000 was caused to the coastal steamer. Ad[?] in the collision with the Perth[?] off Nobby’s on July 2, according…

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First Australian Car? an Historic Journey in Thompson "Steamer"

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 22 July 1938 · page 10

While the car journey from Maitland to Muswellbrook nowadays is but a matter of an hour or more, over splendidly surfaced roads, it was a…

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One Steamer Released; An- Other Bombed Gibraltar. July 25

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 July 1938 · page 3

The Rebel authorities have released the Norwegian steamer Kittybrovig which was taken to Ceuta on Saturday for examination of her cargo. The…

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First Catholic [?] Hands of Wreckers

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 July 1938 · page 3

All that remains of the first Catholic Church in Albury which for many years has been used as an infants’ school. A new school will shortly be erected in its place…

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Plane Wrecked But Pilot Escapes Golfers Scattered Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 July 1938 · page 8

When the engine suddenly cut out, 150 feet above the ground, a Royal Aero Club plane piloted by Ernest Lane, 38, of Penshurst, nosedived on…

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Stumbled From Steamer. Sydney, Friday, noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 3

Although the Water Police made an intensive search of the harbaur to-day they failed to recover the body of the man who disappeared last…

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Jetty Wrecked by Gale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 33

Huge seas whipped by a westerly gale demolished the 100ft. jetty at Amity, on the northern part of Stradbroke Island (Qld.) this week. For a…

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Chinese Pirates Attack Steamer Hong Kong, August 1

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 8

The British destroyer Delight has gone from Tsingtao to render assistance to the British steamer St. Vincent de Paul, which reported that it…

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Rough Weather in N.Z. Gale Leaves Trail of Wreckage Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 3

Another cyclone disturbance raged throughout New Zealand yesterday Clocking many roads because washing away bridges and causing lnandslidos…

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Missing Clipper No Trace of Wreckage Was There Foul Play? Manila, July 31

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 5

One docen naval surface vessels and five aeroplanes to-day converged on the oil spot located in the Pacific yesterday during the search…

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Italian Seaplane Bombs and Machine- Guns British Steamer Barcelona, August 7

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 August 1938 · page 8

Two unidentified seaplanes, but believed to be Italian, flew over Palmos. 50 miles north east of here, this afternoon, and dropped 40 bombs in half…

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Russian Wreckers to Die London, August 8

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 6

The Moscow correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that the Supreme Court in the Ukraine has sentenced to death five leading…

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Tug Sinks in Harbor Holed by Steamer Auckland

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 8

With six men on board, the Harbor Board’s tug Teawhinn was holed amidships in Auckland harbor to-day by the propeller of the Federal liner…

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Chilled Beef Test 70 Be Made on Steamer Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 8

Arrangements have been made for an experimental shipment of chilled beef to be observed during transit from Australia to Britain to obtain further…

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Gold Recovered From Wreck After 150 Years

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 5

The first bar of gold to be brought up from the wreck of the famous Lutine by the dredger, “Karimata,” one of the world’s largest dredges, was recovered on July 29. It was in October, 1799. that the Lutine, an English frigate, was sunk off the Isle of Terschelling. She was carrying gold bars and gold coins sent from the Bank of England to “save” Hamburg bankers, who were in difficulties. The total value was put at £ 1,250,000…

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Typhoid Kills Steamer Passenger London, August 18

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 August 1938 · page 8

A very thorough inspection of the Strathnaver on arrival to-day revealed that a fatal case of typhoid which occurred at sea was isolated, and there…

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An Exciting Voyage Steamer and Small Tug Bad Weather Encountered Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 August 1938 · page 3

After an exciting voyage from New Zealand, the steamer Salam[?] arrived in Sydney this afternoon without (he 500 ton vessel Mako,…

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