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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939

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Wreckage Coming Ashore May Give Clue to Fate of Waratah Johannesburg, December 31

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 1

Pieces of long-immersed cork and timber, which are being washed ashore at Keimouth, near East London, it is suggested, may be from the ill-fated…

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Unionists Outwitted Steamer Coaled at Kembla Sequel to Refusal to Load Pig Iron for Japan Port Kembla

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 1

Waterside workers, who have refused to load pig iron for Japan on the steamer Dalfram, discovered this morning that the vessel had been moved…

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Wrecked Flying Boat Dismantled at Darwin Darwin

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 6

Engineers, who had been working night and day on the dismantling of the flying boat, Coorong, which was blown ashore and wrecked three weeks…

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Cat and Mouse Game Steamer’s Unexpected Return Pig Iron Loading Ban Wollongong

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 8

The British steamer, Dalfram, which waterside workers have refused to load with pig iron for Japan, after standing by at sea for two days, made an…

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Man Overboard From Steamer London, January 8

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 6

The Rotorua, which is bound from Auckland to London, reports that a man went overboard in the Bay of Biscay on Sunday night…

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Spies and Wreckers a Soviet Discovery London, January 12

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 8

The “Times” correspondent at Warsaw in a despatch from Moscow, says that the O.G.P.U. (Soviet Secret Police) are reported to have discovered a nest…

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28 Seamen Drowned When Steamer Founders Bombay, January 17

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 2

Twenty-eight members of the Indian crew of the steamer Cambay Star were drowned to-day when the vessel foundered 150 miles west of Bombay…

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No Pig Iron for Japan Men Are Determined But Will Load Steamer Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 6

Terms for the settlement of the dispute over the loading of pig iron into the steamer Dalfram for Japan were accepted this morning…

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Seven Men Drowned When Irving to Reach Stricken Steamer London, January 23

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 January 1939 · page 3

Seven men are believed to have been drowned when the St. Ives life-boat was lost in a terrific north-westerly gale to-day…

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Air Plane Down. Lifeboat Gone In Search. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 1

The Selsey lifeboat went out, before dawn, to search for an Air Force plane, reported to be down in the sea. It is believed to be a plane…

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Wreckage Pins Man While Centipede Crawls Over Him Wingham

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 8

Pinned beneath the wreckage of a shed at the height of a storm which swept the Upper Manning district yesterday, and unable to move, J. B…

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Deserted Steamer Seamen Sent to Gaol Dalfram’s Hectic Career in Australia Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 February 1939 · page 3

Four English seamen, deserters from the British freighter Dalfram, were sentenced to 24 hours’ imprisonment at the Central Police…

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Shipwrecked Fishermen. Trying Experiences. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 3

Two shipwrecked fishermen, who had a narrow escape from drowning when their dinghy swamped, and they were thrown into the raging sea,…

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Mystery of Wrecked Launch Tragedy Feared in Tasmania Hobart

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 6

It is feared that tragedy has been associated with the fishing launch Tarua, which was discovered wrecked in Bad Mans Bay on the south-west…

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Wrecked Fishermen Found After Walking 40 Miles Hobart

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 4

Henry Menzie, owner of the ill-fated fishing-boat Truea, with his companion, Edward Ridgeway, arrived at Hobart this morning from Catamaran. The…

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British Steamer Taken London, February 18

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 February 1939 · page 1

It has been revealed that the British steamer Stangrove, carrying a crew of 15, and a non-intervention observer, was captured by Nationalists…

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Steamer Founders; 30 Feared Drowned Algiers, March 17

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 18 March 1939 · page 1

The steamer St. Prosper has foundered in a terrific storm. She was due at [?] from Algiers’ at [?] with a cargo of crude oil…

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Sunken Steamer Geelong Man’s Venture Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 6

This week another attempt will probably be made to pump dry the wrecked steamer, Kakariki, which still lies in Hobson’s Bay where she sank two…

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M.L.C. Missing From Steamer Wellington (N.z.)

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 3

When the steamer Arahura berthed at Nelson to-day from Wellington, Mr. W. Sno[?] M.L.C., was missing from the ship. A search revealed…

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Will Not Repair Steamer Boilermakers’ Ultimatum Newcastle

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 March 1939 · page 3

Members of the Boilermakers’ Union have decided that they will not carry out repairs on an 1800 ton cargo steamer which has been ordered by…

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