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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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Identified As Part of "Smithy's" Plane Wreckage Found in Burma

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday:-- Aeroplane wreckage found on the Burmese coast in May, 1937, has been positively identified as part of Sir…

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"Smithy's" Grave? Wreckage May Lead to Find Canberra

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 7

Aircraft wreckage found on the southern bank of Aye Island, near Burma in May, 1937, has been positively identified as portion of…

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The Wreckage of War a Digger's Impressions

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 4

While in Sydney recently, Mr. D. J. Cameron, of Pimlico, had occasion to visit Randwick Military Hospital, and saw, in the same hut where he was…

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Definite Clue To Fate Plane Wreckage Found In Burma

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 5

Aeroplane wreckage found on the Burmese coast in May, 1937, has been positively identified as part of the late Sir Charles…

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Home Wrecker In Action

Northern Star · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 4

Myrna Loy starts her campaign to steal Rosalind Russell's husband, Walter Pidgeon, in "Man-Proof."…

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Eight Bodies on Beach Old Time Wreck—and Vicious Old Time Abo

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 2

Referring to the visit to the Manning of Capt. Geo. Ricketts, son of one of the curliest of the Manning's old pioneers, Mr. J. A. Winney, in the Wingham…

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Wreckers' Activity American Silk Worm Industry

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 7

LONDON, Monday:-The Moscow correspondent of the "Guardian" states that a report from Erivan, the capital of Armenia, describes how…

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Wrecking Armenian Silk Industry Sentence of Death and Gaol Terms MOSCOW

Northern Star · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 9

A report from Erivan, the capital of Armenia, describes how wreckers, under the instigation of the local Nationalists, and Japanese and…

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Cargo Steamer Ashore SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 7

The interstate cargo steamer, Kapara, went ashore on Tom Thumb Island, near the entrance to Port Kembla, to-day, but after bumping…

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Steamer Aground, But Refloated

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--Shortly after the Adelaide Steamship Company's steamer, Kapara, of 846 tons, left Port Kembla for Adelaide early this…

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British Steamer Set on Fire Casualties From Insurgent Bombing

Tweed Daily · Monday 6 June 1938 · page 6

MADRID, Saturday:- The insurgents, during a raid on Alicante, set fire to the British steamer, Maryad, wounding an…

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Boulder Nearly Wrecked Express

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 4

A north-bound express train from Auckland nearly met disaster near Kaikohe, where a large boulder, sufficient to derail the train, had been…

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A Death Roll of Five Bombing of Steamer At Alicante

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 8 June 1938 · page 5

LONDON Monday:-- A message from Valencia says that the death roil of the British steamer St. Winifred,…

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Bodies Sighted at 'Plane Wreck in S. Africa Capetown

Northern Star · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 15

Flight-Lieut. Powell, flying low over the wreckage of the R.A.F. plane in which six Air Force boxers crashed on the banks of the Limpopo River,…

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Latest Telegrams. Steamer Almost Lost in Terrific Cyclone. Auckland

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 3

The steamer Llangollan was almost driven ashore on the coast of New Zealand on Saturday during a fierce cyclonic gale which swept the eastern half of…

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War Time Wreck Salvage Attempt Off N.s.w. Coast

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 7

An attempt to descend 47 fathoms to the war-time wreck of the steamer Cumberland which is lying two miles off…

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Wreckage of Airliner Found: Missing Since March 1 YOSEMITE (California)

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 8

The wreckage of the airliner which vanished on March 1 during the Californian flood was found on a mountainside in Yosemite National Park…

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3 Die in Worst Speedway Smash in N.s.wales Infant Swept To Death From Mother's Arms In Wreckage SYDNEY

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 9

A GRANDMOTHER and her two young grand-children were killed and 12 other persons were injured, two of them seriously, in the worst crash in the history of speedway racing in…

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Tug and Small Steamer Aground

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday:-- The tug J. A. Boyd and the small steamer Ready went aground on Beor Reef near Cape Bedford, 18 miles north…

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Drama at Sea Struggle To Keep Steamer Off Q'land Coast BRISBANE

Northern Star · Thursday 7 July 1938 · page 6

The story of a dramatic struggle to keep the steamer Llangollen, the first overseas vessel of the 1938 sugar fleet to reach Cairns, off the shore, was…

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