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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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Solve Southern Cloud Mystery? Wreckage Near Burrinjuck Dam

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday:-- Six residents of Yass and Gunning will leave to-morrow in search for wreckage near Burrinjuck dam…

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Water-washed Rock Mistaken for Wreckage of Plane

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday:—After a gruelling search lasting several hours, the party trying to find the wreckaeg of the air liner…

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Further Evidence In Conspiracy Trial Foreigners Testify Plant Wrecking MOSCOW

Northern Star · Thursday 28 January 1937 · page 9

The first foreign witness in the trial of seventeen men for conspiracy gave evidence to-day. He was a German…

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Evidence in Treason Trial Concluded One Accused Admits to 40 WRECKINGS Innocent Men Shot MOSCOW

Northern Star · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 9

THE hearing of evidence in the trial of 17 men for conspiracy was concluded to-day. To-morrow the prosecutor,…

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Collision in Fog French Steamer Aground In Sinking Condition

Tweed Daily · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday:--In a fog near Terneuzen, the steamer Bullaren collided with the French passenger steamer Conde, which is aground in…

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WRECKED R.A.A.F. Plane Found Only One Man Seen by Searchers Melbourne

Northern Star · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 9

THE missing R.A.A.F. Hawker Demon 'plane has been located in a wrecked condition in scrub about 10 or 15 miles from Waratah, Tasmania. The machine has been badly damaged,…

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Washed Ashore Bound Bodies of Five Men PARIS

Northern Star · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

Five dead men, bound hand and foot, and three of them gagged, were washed up on the coast of Brittany. It is believed that they were…

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Yacht Runs Ashore Men Mistook Lights At Dance Hall

Tweed Daily · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday:--The ten-ton yacht Moonbill, bound from Sydney on a cruise to Queensland waters, ran ashore at Forster. Beach on Saturday…

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Explosions Wreck Buildings Six Killed and 150,000 Dollars Damage Gas Accumulation CHICAGO

Northern Star · Monday 8 February 1937 · page 5

TWO gas explosions due to a fire as the result of the flood destroyed two three-storey buildings in the heart of the business section of Louisville. It is believed that six are dead in the…

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Collision in Fog British Battleship And Dutch Steamer

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday:--The £3,.000,000 battleship H.M.S. Malaya, which left Devonport on December 31, after three 4 months refitting at a cost of…

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Wrecked Aeroplane. Almost Total Loss. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1937 · page 3

Only the instruments and some fittings will be salvaged from the Royal Australian Air Force 'plane which was wrecked on the slopes of Mount Cleveland…

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Millionaire Among the Victims 'Frisco Bay Plane Disaster Only Three Bodies in Wreckage

Tweed Daily · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 6

SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday; The 11 occupants of the 21 passenger Douglas transport plane which plunged into the bay while…

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Coastal Steamer Sinks SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 7

The coastal steamer, Erringhi, of 100 tons, sank in 30 feet of water at her berth, Darling Harbour, to-day. There was nobody on board at the time…

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Steamer Is Adrift in Pacific in Cyclone Area S.O.S. Messages Sent

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday:--The Deputy Director of Navigation received advice to-night that the British steamer Shousing,…

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Wreckage of Yacht Found Man Still Missing

Tweed Daily · Monday 15 February 1937 · page 2

PERTH, Sunday:--The fishing yacht Credle, manned by T. Olsen, of Eunbury, has been missing since a cyclonic storm passed from the…

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Steamer Safe Brisbane. Monday

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 6

A radio message received this morning by the Townsville wireless station from the master of the disabled steamer Shousing, states that she is…

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Disabled Steamer Out Danger Broken Rudder Chain Repaired

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 4

BRISBANE,Monday:--The steamer Shousing,which was drifting helplessly in the cyclone area off Willis Island, reported…

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Flying Boat As Big As Steamer 80-100 Passengers (From A Special Correspondent.) LONDON, January 30 (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 February 1937 · page 10

A FLYING boat 250 feet long—nearly as big as a channel steamer—is under construction at the Short Brothers flying-boat works at Rochester, Kent. Between eighty and one hundred passengers will…

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Steamer Shousing Hove To Whiting for Weather to Abate

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 17 February 1937 · page 6

BRISBANE, Tuesday:--The Japanese captain of the steamer Shousing, Which had its rudder chain broken during a cyclonic storm on Sunday…

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Steamer Caradale Arrest Warrant Removed

Tweed Daily · Thursday 18 February 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday:--A writ for £50,000 and an arrest warrant were removed from the mast of the Caradale to-day following an order…

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