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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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No Cargo Likely to Be Salvaged Wreck of Liner Stuart Star

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 5

CAPE TOWN, Monday.--The Australian passengers on the Blue Star liner Stuart Star, which went ashore near East London several days ago,…

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U.S. Passenger Liner Holed Collision With Italian Steamer

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday.--An SOS from the American passenger liner City of Hamburg stated that the vessel was sinking fast ten miles…

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More Executions in Russia. Alleged Grain Wreckers

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 2

MOSCOW, Tuesday.--Seven officials have been executed at Tiflis on charges of grain wrecking, while other officials of the Georgian Grain Trust are being…

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Freighter Aground on Reef Probably Be Total Wreck Crew Safe Aboard Another Steamer

Tweed Daily · Monday 27 December 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday:--Bound from Geelong to Sydney and Newcastle, the freighter Saros ran aground on a reef off Cape Everard, near the N.S.W. border, on Christmas night and is likely to become a total wreck according to a…

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Woman Flier Arrival in Sydney by Steamer SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 8

Mrs. Beryl Markham, who flew across the Atlantic last year, arrived in Sydney on the Mariposa. She said she thought Australia had contributed more…

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Burwah with Crew of Saros Reaches Sydney Dramatic Story of Wreck

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--When members of the crew of the Saros reached Sydney on the Burwah to-day they told a dramatic story…

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Complaints by Seaman Treatment of Shipwrecked Men

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--"This is the way they treat a man after being shipwrecked," said a member of the crew of the Saros, S…

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Saros Was Wrecked In Thick Fog Hazardous Rescue Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 7

Members of the crew of the coaster, Saros, which is piled up on the rocks almost under the lighthouse at Cape Everard, said…

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Fishing Launch Wrecked Two Men Reach Shore

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 5

GRAFTON, Wednesday: While Gordon Wingfield, of Grafton, and S. Pegus, of Yamba, were fishing outside the Clarence River…

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Chinese Wreck Tsingtao Evacuation Urged Before Japs. Arrive SHANGHAI

Northern Star · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 7

THE Chinese blew up the power station at Tsingtao, thus overloading the remaining station which, it is feared, will…

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