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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

11 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Missing Paringa More Wreckage Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4

The Commonwealth Government has ordered the lighthouse steamer Cape York to search the coast of Victoria between Lakes Entrance…

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Lost Paringa Quantity of Wreckage Found Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1

Twenty hatch covers were washed ashore at Bream Creek during the week-end. Several planks have been sent to Melbourne to establish if they…

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Wreckage Located Sydney, Noon

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 1

Land and air parties this morning discovered the wreckage of the ill-fated Gannet monoplane, in a dense scrub about 20 miles from Picton…

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Social Diseases Wrecked Lives and Deaths Is Our Outlook Narrow ?

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 4

"Venereal disease has flourished for thousands of years, and may be regarded as civilisation's greatest, and most ancient curse. It has been responsible…

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Disabled Steamer Nalpa's Engines Fail Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1936 · page 1

A mesage was received at 3.25 this morning from the steamer Nalpa, at present between Brisbane and Bundaberg. to the effect that her engines…

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The Lost Airmen Plane Wrecked But the Men are Unhurt Melbourne, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 1

The three members of the Royal Australian Air Force, who were missing in Central Australia for nine days, reached Newcastle Waters this…

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Steamer Fire £10,000 Damage Plucky Men

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 May 1936 · page 1

Damage estimated at over £10,000 was caused by a fire which broke out on the interstate vessel Taroona, while…

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Terrific Hurricane Norfolk Island Wrecked

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1936 · page 6

Over the week-end, a terrific hurricane struck Norfolk Island and then raged along the N.S.W. coastline. So far six people are missing from…

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SPORTING Topics of the Turf. Boomben Cup Wanner Verdum might be a possibility for Southern-Spring Races. Big Cash investment of Price-wrecker was a sore point with Fireman's Trainer. Young Jockey Cerdoes front-running tactics

The Western Herald · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 3

One of the most interesting developments of Winter form is Verdum who on Saturday won the Doomben Cup at a mile and a…

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Steamer Aground a Total Wreck Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 July 1936 · page 1

The steamer Abel Tasman, which went ashore at Greymouth (N.Z.), is now a total wreck. No lives were lost…

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Wreck on Australian Coast

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 6 August 1936 · page 5

On August 4,1845, the “Catarqui” an emigrant ship from England, went ashore at King Island. The ship had little chance in the…

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