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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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Mystery 'Plane Wreckage Found Near Honolulu May Be Ulm's Machine Honolulu, December 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 December 1938 · page 7

Filipino fishermen, while diving to recover their nets, found the wreckage of an aeroplane party buried in ocean sand 20 feet below the surface, 38 miles north-west…

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19½ Days From Tasmania 'Mosquito' Schooner's Long Trip MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 December 1938 · page 2

Nineteen days 14 hours out from Hobart, the three-masted 150-ton wooden auxiliary schooner. Alma Doepel, sneaked up to South Wharf…

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Steamer, Warned, Dodges Typhoon Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 December 1938 · page 5

Accurate weather information from the bureau at Manila prevented the Tanda, which arrived in Sydney yesterday, from a serious buffeting…

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'Plane Wreck

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 December 1938 · page 1

United Airlines' luxury transport 'plane being pounded to pieces off Point Reyes, California, after a forced landing in which five perished. One of the motors, stripped from the ship, can be seen in upper left-hand corner of the picture…

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Terrific Cyclonic Storm Sydney Suburb Trail of Wreckage; Many Injured Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 December 1938 · page 7

In five minutes thousands of pounds worth of damage was done, and many persons were injured during a fierce cyclonic storm, accompanied by lightning, which broke over Marrickville shortly after…

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Little Township Wrecked Havoc Wrought by Hurricane MELBOURNE,Saturday

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 December 1938 · page 8

Where the busy little township of Urana stood yesterday, in the centre of what was at one time one of the most…

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Steamer Cumberland Damaged Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 December 1938 · page 6

The 11,000-ton steamer Cumberland Struck the concrete breakwater at New Plymouth yesterday. The face of the breakwater was damaged, and the bow of…

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Still No Watersiders for Steamer Dalfram Wollongong

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 December 1938 · page 6

There was no response to a formal call for waterside workers at the pickup places to-day, to load pin iron on the steamer Dalfram…

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Salvaged Air Mail Arrives Wrecked Calpurnia's Cargo SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 December 1938 · page 7

Air mail salvaged from the wrecked flying-boat Calpurnia reached Rose Bay late this afternoon by the Imperial Airways' flying-boat Corinna, which brought…

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Relief for Surveyors Ketch Leaves Auckland With Food Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 December 1938 · page 8

With a hurriedly-signed on crew, the auxiliary ketch Miena sailed from Auckland for the Kermandees with provisions which are urgently needed by the survey…

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