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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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Ill-fated Loina Wreckage of Plane Washed Up Melbourne, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1935 · page 1

Although no bodies have been found, sufficient wreckage has been washed up at Flinders Island to prove the late of the airliner Loina…

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Italian Civilisation [?]unded Eyes—Wrecked Lungs London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1935 · page 1

[?] call us savages," exclaimed [?]omatch Nasibu, Commander[?] Chief of the Southern Abyssin[?] forces, when interviewed by the…

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Big Liner Ashore

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1935 · page 5

The Holland-Amerika liner, Rotterdam (24,149 tons), carrying GOO passengers on a West Indies cruise, recently grounded on a reef 60 miles south-east of Kingston, jamaica…

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Big Liner Ashore

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 November 1935 · page 11

The Holland-Amerika liner, Rotterdam (24,149 tons), carrying 600 passengers on a West Indies cruise, recently grounded on a reef 60 miles south-east of Kingston, Jamaica…

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In Abyssinia Makable to Fall To-day Rains Wreck Roads London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 November 1935 · page 1

Though the rain in Northern Abyssinia is unseasonable, and is not expected to continue, cloud bursts have done great damage to the new roads…

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Lost in North Sea Steamer Sheafbrook

Western Age · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 1

Following an S.O.S. from the North Sea, the steamer Sheafbrook with twenty persons on board, vanished completely. The vessel's…

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Schooner Missing with 18 Aboard

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 12 December 1935 · page 2

Seventeen days have elapsed since news was received of this vessel, the administrative schooner Hermes, on its voyage from…

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Ketch Ashore Crew Safe Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 23 December 1935 · page 1

The auxiliary ketch, Erskine, owned by William Holyman and Sons, Ltd., went ashore on the north-east coast of Tasmania on…

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