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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1922

9 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Lifeboat Woman at 70

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 3 February 1922 · page 4

Tho Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded its record of thanks and a gold brooch to Mrs. Margaret Brown, of Cresswoll, Northumberland,…

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Only White Man on an Island Story of a 20-Year-old Wreck

The Wellington Times · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 4

Professor W. H. Hobbs, the geologist of the University of Michigan has sent from. Manilla a remarkably story of a sort of Robinson Crusoe he discovered…

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Lifeboat Woman at 70

Western Age · Friday 3 March 1922 · page 2

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has awarded its record of thanks and a gold brooch to Mrs. Margaret Brown, of Cresswell, Northumberland…

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Labor's Wreck

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 7 April 1922 · page 2

The disunion which has been shaking the Labor Party for months was completed by the electors at the recent election. For a long time observant people…

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The World's Largest Lifeboat

The Western Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1922 · page 2

Arrangements have been made in Great Britain for building in a new type of motor lifeboat which will be largest of any yet known Its length…

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Steamer Wiltshire on Resf. Breaks in Halves. Fears for Those on Board

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 4

The steamer Wiltshire, bound from Liverpool to Auckland, is ashore on the Great Barrier Reef (N.Z.) At a late hour Wednesday night…

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The Wreck of the Wiltshire

The Wellington Times · Monday 26 June 1922 · page 2

After counsel had addressed the Court of the Wiltshire Inquiry in New Zealand, it was announced that Captain Hayward was found guilty of…

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Wrecks Belong to the King Some of the Laws Which Rule Shipping

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 September 1922 · page 7

Some little time ago a plumber's labouror was hurt by a falling water-trough, when working aboard a liner in the Royal Albert Dock. He applied…

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Wreck Salvage. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 6

Salvagers located a steamer off the English coast torpedoed in 1917, when laden with aluminium for aeroplanes. The ship is badly broken, but metal now…

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