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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

214 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 11

Ketch Overdue at Rabaul Considerable Anxiety in Official Circles

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 November 1935 · page 2

RABAUL, Monday:--Considerable anxiety is felt in official circles regarding the safety of the Administration's ketch Hermes, with Messrs. Andrews,…

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Missing Schooner Sixteen Days of Silence

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 November 1935 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday: — Sixteen days of silence have elapsed since the Administration schooner, Hermes, left Madang, New Guinea, for Rabaul…

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Concern Felt Schooner Missing Eight Aboard Canberra

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 November 1935 · page 6

The Minister for External Affairs (Senator Pearce) has been informed by the Administrator of New Guinea of the mysterious…

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Captured by Shell Poachers? Missing Schooner Hermes

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 November 1935 · page 5

RABUAL, Wednesday:—The Desikoko, which is searching for the missing Administration schooner Hermes, wirlessed this morning that no trace…

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Steamer Salved by Wireless Remarkable Salvage Case

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday:—A case in which a disabled vessel was salved without seeing the ship which salved her was concluded in the…

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Steamer Landona Held Up Seamen Refuse to Supply Crew

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday:—An unexpected development in the threatened shipping strike occurred today, when the seamen refused to…

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Missing Schooner Intensive Search in Vain

Tweed Daily · Monday 2 December 1935 · page 3

RABAUL, Saturday:—Latest wireless advice from Desikoko reveals no trace of the missing schooner belonging to the Administration, Hermes. A…

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19 Days Overdue New Guinea Schooner Search Proceeding CANBERRA

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 December 1935 · page 7

Fears are held by the New Guinea administration that the schooner Hermes, which is 19 days overdue at Rabaul, may have been overwhelmed…

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The Steamer Cahors

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1935 · page 3

Sir,—The paragraph in last Friday's "R.R. Herald" concerning this vessel, which ran on to Evans Reef on Sunday night, June 10th, 1885, is of great…

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Wrecked in Crash Ellsworth Search Plane

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 December 1935 · page 6

NEW YORK, Monday:—A message from Atlanta (Georgia) says that the plane which was being flown by Henry Thaw for the…

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Gale Sweeps English Channel Steamer Services Dislocated

Tweed Daily · Friday 13 December 1935 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday:— When the Channel steamer Biarritz arrived at Folk stone from Boulogne this afternoon she was the first…

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Steamer Tied Up Trouble at Fremantle

Tweed Daily · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 5

FREMANTLE, Friday:--Following a refusal by the members of the crew to take the Koomilya to the anchoring grounds outside the harbor, the…

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Serial Story Wrecker's Woe Marooned

Northern Star · Saturday 14 December 1935 · page 17

Laurian, her hands clasped round her knees, an old grey cape about her shoulders, sat perched high on a ledge of that great pile of limestone rock…

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Pilot Praises Passengers Wrecked Plane Passed Night on Island

Tweed Daily · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 5

LAUNCESTON, Sunday:-- "I have nothing but the highest praise for the manner in which the passengers came out of the ordeal,"…

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Serial Story Wrecker's Woe (To be continued.)

Northern Star · Monday 16 December 1935 · page 15

The man could have groaned in the immensity of his dismay. This was simply ghastly. This was the most awful—he used a stronger term…

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No Trouble Seamen Move Steamer

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 5

FREMANTLE, Monday:—No trouble was experienced to-day in moving the steamer Koomilyn from Victoria Quay to North Walk following an order…

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Serial Story Wrecker's Woe by Ralph Rodd. (Chapter I continued.)

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 December 1935 · page 15

"I remember—dimly, very dimly—sailing alone and trying to sail faster and faster, cramming on every stitch she'd carry because I was so much more…

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Serial Story Wrecker's Woe Chapter I.—Continued

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 December 1935 · page 17

"If you're just trying to get me to promise not to advertise you, you needn't bother. I never interfere in other people's affairs. Any way, you've…

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Serial Story Wrecker's Woe (Continued.)

Northern Star · Thursday 19 December 1935 · page 17

She had no cause to mind if she had known. He hadn't a thought about her of which he need be ashamed, and she did look so adorable, curled…

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Mainmast Snapped Off American Ketch's Stormy Voyage

Tweed Daily · Friday 20 December 1935 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Thursday:—The 32 foot American auxiliary ketch, Idle Hours, arrived to-day under jury rig with 51 feet of her mainmast broken…

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