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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Aviation to Paris and Rome One 'Plane Wrecked Old Orchard (Main), Thurs

The Inverell Times · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 1

Assolant (pilot), Lotti, Copilot, and Lef[?]re (navigator), in a giant ochre winged French monoplane, the Yellow Bird" made' a perfect take off at…

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Coal From Japan Steamer Chartered SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 1

It is reported that a steamer has been char[?] to load a shipment of coal in [?] for Sydney…

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Short of Coal Steamer's Exciting Voyage SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 June 1929 · page 1

The steamer Makambo arrived at Sydney to-day after an exciting voyage from the New Hebrides. Cyclonic weather was struck on the outward…

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Coal for Australia Steamer Afire CAPETOWN

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 1

The steamer Cadwallon, bound for, Australia with a cargo of coal, caught fire in tow holds, five hundred miles form Durban. The fire spread…

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Home-made Plane Wrecked

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1929 · page 6

Ill luck pursued a nineteen-year-old aviator, Mr. E. Everson, of Auckland, who lately constructed a homemade aeroplane at a cost of £60…

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Anniversary of Wrecks

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 July 1929 · page 3

Friday and Saturday were the anniversaries of a gale that swept the coas: of New South Wales, and took a heavy toll of human life and shipping,…

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Second Bomb Shed Wrecked Alleged Reprisals MELBOURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1929 · page 1

A bomo was thrown into a lane at Ivunboe last night, at the rear of, a shop occupied by Thomas Neyland. The territic explosion which followed…

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Anniversary of Wrecks

Guyra Argus · Thursday 1 August 1929 · page 4

Friday and Saturday, the 12th and 13th of July, were the anniversaries of a gale that swept the coast of New South Wales, and took a heavy…

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Grafton Man Attacks Aged Wife Commits Suicide. On a Sandbank SCHOONER WOOLOMAl Crew Swim Ashore. MELBOURNE

The Inverell Times · Monday 5 August 1929 · page 1

The schooner Woolomai, of 151 tons, was blown on to a sandbank at Point Richards, about two miles from Port Arlington, yesterday afternoon…

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Schooner on Sand Bank, Crew Swim Ashore

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 1

The schooner "Woolomai" ran on a sandbank at Point Richards, about two miles from Point Arlington, yesterday afternoon…

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Toy Boat Wrecked Lloyd's Pay Insurance

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 August 1929 · page 3

Lying at the bottom of the ornamental lake in Kensington Gardens, London, is a boat fully insured at Lloyd's. It belongs to Richard…

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Man Overboard ! From Steamer Eden SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 24 August 1929 · page 1

A passenger named either Attwater or Walker was lost overboard from the steamer Eden on the voyage between Sydney and Bermagui…

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Trawler's Rough Voyage Sickness and Death Mail Steamer to Rescue Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 27 August 1929 · page 1

The trawier, "Bonthorpe." one of the West Australian Trawling Company's boats, put into Geraldton on Sunday to replenish her coal supplies…

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In Shark Waters Skiff Capsizes Man Drowned ; Two Swim Ashore Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 1

One man was drowned and two others swam to safety through shark-infested waters when a skiff capsized in Botany Bay last night…

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Steamer Afire Rhymnay Returning to Durban LONDON

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 1

The British steamer Rhymnay bound from Hull for Melbourne has readioed that a fire broke out in the alterhold yesterday and that the…

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Boat Capsizes Men Swim Ashore three days without Food Perth

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 1

Three Fremantle fishermen had an unenviable experience when their fishing boat capsized near Jurien Bay on Tuesday last. They bad to swim…

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Prisoner Disappears As Steamer Enters Heads MELBOURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 1

W. Youlden, of Victoria, a deportee from New Zealand, who absconded from Sydney in 1927 while on bail on a larceny charge,…

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Liner Wrecked No Loss of Life Captain Carried to Boat Vigo (Spain)

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 10 September 1929 · page 1

Preserving admirable order and discipline, all 60 passengers and 190 officers and crew were safely landed warn the Nelson liner Highland…

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14 DROWNED Belgian Steamer Sinks As Result of Collision. London

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 1

The Belgium steamer Estrella of 757 tons, sank the Scheldt after a collision with the [?] steamer Two of the crew were saved…

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Steamer on the Rocks Wild Night Off Coast Crew's Miraculous Escape Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 12 September 1929 · page 1

Captain Merrett, master of the steamer Pappinbarra, which went ashore near Port Stephens, says that when the vessel left Port…

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