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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

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Missing Spanish Airmen 'Plane Wreckage Found

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 June 1933 · page 5

MEXICO CITY, Monday:-- Field [?] of the British Eagle Oil Company in the State of Tabasco reported late to-day that they had found the…

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Gruelling Flight Schooner Limp Into Port

Tweed Daily · Friday 30 June 1933 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday:-- Three days overdue, the auxiliary schooner, Huia, arrived form Sydney this evening after a grauelling fight with the…

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Will Stupidity Wreck the World? Thinking Behind the Times

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 30 June 1933 · page 8

"The cultural lag of the people, the lock of thinking which can keep paco with science and invention, may bring civilisation to an end." The warning was…

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Ten Murdered Brutal Crime by White Pirates Seized Steamer Shanghai

Northern Star · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 7

Reports of a particularly brutal act of piracy and series of murders have just reached here from Dairen…

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Wreckage of Collier? Floating Object May Reveal Fate of Christina Fraser

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Wreckage believed to be part of the missing collier, Christina Fraser, was sighted four miles off the…

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Crashed Into Tree Aeroplane Wrecked Amazing Escapes Was Going to Search for Collier

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Shortly after taking off from Sale aerodrome at dawn to-day to search for the reported wreckage of the missing…

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The Christina Fraser Wreckage Found Most Important Discovery

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:--Having made an intensive search for traces of the Christina Fraser along the coast from Malacoota…

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Missing Ship No Traces Found of Wreckage SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 7

The search for the wreckage of the missing collier, Christina Fraser, is meeting with as little success as the search for the ship…

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'Plane Crash Pilot's Amazing Escape Machine Wrecked Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 10 July 1933 · page 5

When a monoplane crashed from a height of several hundred feet before hundreds of onlookers at Mascot aerodrome,…

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Five "Cook Wreckers" to Die Another Demonstration Trial in Russia

Tweed Daily · Friday 14 July 1933 · page 3

RIGA, Wednesday:--What the Soviet press describes as "intolerably filthy conditions in industrial kitchens and the inedibility of the food served…

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Early Brunswick History Schooner Agnes Interesting Details of Wreck (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Saturday 15 July 1933 · page 4

Sir,--Some little time ago you published some interesting early history of the Brunswick. I would like to correct some errors which your informant made…

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Missing Launch Found Wrecked on Connor Island

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

MACKAY, Monday:-- The missing launch, Tonka II, was located by search parties on Sunday, wrecked on Connor Island, 15 miles from Cape…

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Heavy Sentences Russian ''Food Supply Wreckers''

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

RIGA, Sunday. --Charged with under estimating crops, M. Zalogin, director of the Odessa Grain Trust, and three State farm officials were…

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Freight Anomalies Casein and Three-ply RAIL v. STEAMER

Northern Star · Thursday 20 July 1933 · page 6

Some surprising freight anomalies were disclosed to a representative of the "Northern Star" yesterday by Mr. Ray…

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Wrecking Cost was High

Northern Star · Saturday 22 July 1933 · page 4

Buying street cars and automobiles to smash, photographing an actress by the invisible light of the "X-ray," rehearsing collisions and disasters and…

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Within Sight of Goal Mollisons Crash Crossed Atlantic Plane Wrecked in Forced Landing Fliers Slightly Injured

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 25 July 1933 · page 3

BRIDGEPORT (Connecticut), Sunday:--After successfully crossing the Atlantic non-stop from England and speeding down the New England coast, the Mollisons crashed when landing here at 9 o'clock to-night (Greenwich time), 58 miles…

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Mollisons Crash in Sight of Their Goal "Seafarer" Complete Wreck: Fliers Hurt Remarkable Escape From Death: Thrown Clear

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 July 1933 · page 5

After successfully crossing the Atlantic in a non-stop flight from England to New York, the Mollisons crashed at nine o'clock to-night while speeding down the Now England Coast. They had been in the air for 39 hours…

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High Seas Fishing Boat Wrecked Byron Bay

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 July 1933 · page 6

Heavy rain has fallen over the past 24 hours and what was at first a strong wind, has developed into a gale. For the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day…

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Torrential Rain and Gales Serious Flooding Unlikely Launch Wrecked at Byron Bay

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 July 1933 · page 6

Torrential rain, accompanied by a gale which reached a velocity of 40 miles an hour at the pilot station at Ballina during the afternoon, fell almost incessantly yesterday over the far North Coast. Terrific seas pounded the beaches at…

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Mollisons Fly to New York Flight Definitely Ended Wrecked Machine New York

Northern Star · Wednesday 26 July 1933 · page 7

Both Mr. and Mrs. Mollison spent a comfortable night, sleeping soundly, and their condition was improved this morning…

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