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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Air Taxi Wrecked Five Persons Killed Paris

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 1

An air taxi which had conveyed four passengers from Amiens to Harve to see a football match on January 19 started for home after the match but…

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Another Steamer Fire

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 2

The steamer Ningchow, a Blue Funnel freighter, put into Bunbury on Wednesday afternoon with a bad fire In the reserve banker amidships. The…

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Steamer Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 7

The Orient liner Otranto, bound for London from Australia, came into collision with a French steamer in the harbor at Port Said on…

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Explosion Sinks Steamer Only Three of Crew Saved Athens

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 April 1930 · page 1

An explosion in the boiler room sank he Italian steamer Frederigo Cargolla within three minutes, drowning twenty out of a crew of 23…

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Telegraphic News (Australian Press Association Message) Steamer Rams Oil-tanker in a Dense Fog Tanker Sinks Immediately

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 June 1930 · page 1

Through the early hours of the morning details came trickling through of a collision between the coastal steamer Fairfax and an oil-tanker which…

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Local and General Rail v. STEAMER

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1930 · page 2

An officer of the Railway Department was in Braidwood last week interviewing business people with a view to getting them to transfer…

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RAIL v. STEAMER

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1930 · page 1

THE Railway Commissioners appear determined to make a serious effort to capture the wool traffic from this district for the railways…

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Latest Cable News the Tahiti Wreck Passengers Safely Transferred

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1930 · page 2

The latest information from the scene of the disaster is that the steamer Ventura has readied the scene of the wreck. Before the vessel…

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Tahiti Wreck

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 3

Dramatic details of the sinking of the Tahiti are related by passengers put ashore at Page Page by the Ventura. These stories reveal that had…

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