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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

229 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 12

Bombed by Spanish Planes Italian Steamer Damaged Rome's Threat "React With The Utmost Energy"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.-- A Lloyd's cable message from Gibraltar reports that the Italian steamer Madda, bound for Clyde from Port Sudan with a cargo of cotton seed, arrived at Gibraltar with her forepeak…

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Drastic Action Not Likely Bombing of Italian Steamer

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday:-- The "Telegraph's" Rome correspondent states that it is understood Signor Mussolini is consulting Berlin before taking…

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Afire at Sea Island Steamer Engines Disabled Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 7

THE island trader, Macctiiul, is afire off Fortification Point, between Lae and Madang, and is drifting helplessly at sea, the…

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Soviet Sentences Agricultural Wreckers

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday :-- The correspondent of "The Times" at Moscow states that the trial of the alleged agricultural wreckers resulted in M. Grinenko,…

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Stopped by Rebel Ship British Steamer Carrying Refugees

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday:-- The "Daily Telegraph's" Bordeaux correspondent says: The British cargo steamer Marianna Moller, with 170…

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Tin in Stinson Wreckage Police Suspicious Sergeant Adheres to Statement

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday:--At the resumed inquest to-day concerning the Stinson plane crash near Archerfield aerodrome on March…

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Struck Tractor Air Force 'Plane Wrecked LONDON

Northern Star · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 3

A B.A.F. 'plane struck a tractor roller when landing at Hendon and was wrecked. The pilot, Flight-Lieutenant Donaldson, although suffering…

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Danger of Outbreak of Malaria Rabaul's Drainage System Wrecked

Tweed Daily · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday:- Because Rabaul's drainage system was wrecked in the recent volcanic disturbances, the Federal Government has requested…

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Russian Steamer Captured Attempts to Run Blockade

Tweed Daily · Monday 28 June 1937 · page 5

SEVILLE, Saturday:-- Twenty aeroplanes, 44 tanks, 3000 rifles, 1000 machine-guns, and ammunition fell into the hands of Spanish…

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Smallpox Outbreak on Changte Steamer Due in Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday:-- When the Changte reaches Townville early to-morrow morning, the Chief Quarantine Officer for Queensland (Dr…

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Steamer Changte at Townsville No Further Outbreaks of Smallpox

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 30 June 1937 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday:- The steamer Changte, from the East, on her way down the coast in quarantine, anchored in the bay early this…

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Explosion Wrecks Building Outrage at Colliery on Rothbury Estate

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wednesday:- An explosion, deliberately caused, wrecked a building used as an explosives magazine at the CWM-DU…

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"Home Wrecked by English Climate" Maintenance Order Against Syd. Hird

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday:-- The Australian professional cricketer, Sydney Frederick Hird, of the Ramsbottom Club, appeared in…

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Anniversary of Wreck

Northern Star · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 6

Yesterday was the 36th. atepiversary of the wreck of the tug, "Protector," on the Richmond River bar) at Ballina, when the five men comprising…

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Strong Precautions Taken Steamer Changte Berths in Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 July 1937 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday:-- Precautions were taken by the Commonwealth Quarantine Department on the arrival of the steamer Changte to-day to…

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Coroner Criticises Police Tin in Wreckage of Stinson Failure to Call Further Evidence

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 July 1937 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday:-- The City Coroner (Mr. J. Leahy) to-day closed the inquest into the deaths of Thomas Cameron (29) and Ernest Norman Shang (42), who were killed in the crash of a Stinsin monoplane near Archerfield…

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Another Incident Rebel Warship Fires on French Steamer British Vessel Arrested in Holland

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday.--A message from Santander states that the rebel warship Almirante Cervera four times fired on the French merchantman Tregastel and brought her to while she was attempting to enter the harbour. After this the rebel…

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Wrecked Launch at South Head. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 3

Sir persons narrowly escaped drowning when their launch was blown on to the rocks inside South Head last night. Two of them, a man and a woman,…

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LAUNCH Wrecked Man Drowned Mate's Remarkable Swim Sydney, Wednesday. --

Tweed Daily · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 5

One man was drowned and another saved his life by an almost incredible swim of 300 yards through rock-strewn…

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Latest Telegrams. Wrecked Fishing Launch. One Man Drowned. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 5

A fishing launch, bound north from Newport, was wrecked near the entrance, to Newcastle Harbor last night. One of the crew, named Robinson,…

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