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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1920

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Trouble on Steamer. Details of Plans not Explained. VANCOUVER

Daily Observer · Monday 2 August 1920 · page 1

New York message says the cooks and stewards on the steamer Baltic threatened to strike Dr. Mannix boarded…

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Fell Over From Steamer. Sydney

Daily Observer · Wednesday 11 August 1920 · page 1

Paul Button, a well known Sydney business man, fell overboard when the steamer Sonoma was two days out from Honolulu. The spot was searched for…

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Steamer's Bunkers on Fire

Daily Observer · Saturday 14 August 1920 · page 2

A fire was discovered among about 1000 tons of coal in the bunkers of the Melbourne Coy.'s steamer Dimbolla, at the Company's whar'f. The firemen…

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Wrecked by Explosion. Detective's Home Damaged. Accused Remanded. SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Wednesday 18 August 1920 · page 1

Frederick Thorpe, a hairdresser, was charged at the Central Police Court, on a provisional warrant with having feloniously, unlawfully and maliciously…

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Peace Loan Air Campaign. INVERELL'S £4000. Aeroplane Wrecked on Leaving. INVERELL

Daily Observer · Friday 20 August 1920 · page 1

Captain Wrigley and Corp. Lovegrove, who have been touring the North-West appealing for subscriptions to the Second Peace Loan,, arrived in Inverell…

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Aeroplanes Wrecked

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 August 1920 · page 2

Three or four of the Peace Loan planes [?]touring the State came to grief[?] including the one that passed through Narrabri. Captain Wrigley…

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Unknown Vessel Ashore. Sydney

Daily Observer · Tuesday 24 August 1920 · page 2

A steamer, which has not yet been [?]dntified, is ashore near Tologa Buy, New Zealand, and seas ares breaking over the vessel. There are no signs of life…

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Another Munitions Steamer. Workers' Threat. LONDON

Daily Observer · Wednesday 25 August 1920 · page 2

The "Times." Danzig correspondent states that Captain Gueydon is bringing a French steamer laden with munitions for Poland…

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Wreck Report Unfounded. Sydney

Daily Observer · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 1

An Auckland massage slates that it is now definitely established that the steamer sighted off the east coast on Sunday, and which was supposed to have been…

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Wrecking Lisburn. Damage Estimated at £500,000. LONDON

Daily Observer · Friday 27 August 1920 · page 2

Anti-Catholic riots continue in Lisburn. The Belfast fire brigade arrived, but the crowd cut the hoses. The town is now under military control…

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Final Crash. Parer and Macintosh. Machine Totally Wrecked. Aviators Escape with Shaking. ALBURY

Daily Observer · Monday 30 August 1920 · page 2

Disappointment was experienced by a large crowd assembled at Albury by the non arrival of Lieutenants Parer and McIntosh. The two arimen passed over Young at…

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Passenger Steamer Wrecked. Vancouver

Daily Observer · Wednesday 1 September 1920 · page 2

A San Francisco message states that the steamer Aracan, in bound from Java, was wrecked outside San Francisco harbor Seventy-two passengers aboard…

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War in Belfast. Bitter Sectarianism. Catholic Districts Wrecked. Military Powerless. LONDON

Daily Observer · Wednesday 1 September 1920 · page 2

Flying bottles, bricks, iron bolls, glowing fires, and wholesale shootings and deaths continue to be failures in messages from Belfast…

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Free Steamer Passages to Soldiers' Relatives

The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 September 1920 · page 6

The Repatriation Commission has announced its concurrence with the [?] given last year to authorities in London to grant free third-class…

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Explosion on Steamer

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 2

An explosion occurred on the steamer Canadian. at Snail's Bay last night. when two members of the crew received injuries of a severe nature. The…

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French President Ill. Nervous Wreck. Resignation Considered Likely. LONDON

Daily Observer · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 2

A paris message reports that President Deschanel is a nervous wreek, and is unable to appear. His resignation is discussed…

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American Schooner in Trouble

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 2

The American steamer Mundora struck a rock in Backstairs Passage. South Australia. and began to leak bidly. She is now full of wafer and is…

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Schooner Overdue. Hobart

Daily Observer · Monday 20 September 1920 · page 2

Anxiety is felt in Hobart regarding the three-masted schooner, Amelia, which left Newcastle on August 2[?], for Hobart, and has not been heard of since…

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Avro Wrecked. Forced Landing. Pilot and Passenger Injured

Daily Observer · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 1

The Australian Aircraft Company's Avro aeroplane which arrived at Taroom (Q.) three weeks ago in charge of Messrs. Snooks and Barllett, after…

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Federal Parliament. New Wheat Pool Explained. No Cash on Delivery. Search for Missing Schooner. MELBOURNE

Daily Observer · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 2

In the House of Representatives Mr. Hughes explained in detail the formation of the Wheat Pool in which the Commonwealth was taking part. They hoped…

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