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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

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Ketch Capsizes in Gale College Boats to the Rescue One Man Drowned Melbourne

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1932 · page 1

Of a party of four men, whose Ketch. capsized in a gale on Corio Bay, near Geelong yesterday, one was drowned. Three brothers rowed Tor an hour…

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Coal Oil First Steamer Sails LONDON

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 December 1932 · page 1

It is revealed that the first British warship, fuelled entirely with oil produced from natural coal, sailed on Decembers 5…

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Steamer Released Was Bar-Bound for Nine Weeks Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 December 1932 · page 4

The coastal steamer "Tyalgum," which has been bar-bound in the Tweed River for more than nine weeks, crossed out yesterday…

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