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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Steamer Floated Off

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1933 · page 7

The coastal steamer Kinchela. which went ashore at Port Macquarie, was floated off yesterday in a, slightly leaking condition and with…

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Nothing Further About Jap Steamer Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 March 1933 · page 1

No further news has been received of the disabled Japanese tramp ship, which yesterday sent out “S.O.S.” messages from a position several hundred…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. the Missing Steamer

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 17 March 1933 · page 3

There is still no trace of the missing Japanese vessel, Kinsin Maru The search is being continued…

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Wreckage Found

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1933 · page 2

A radio from the Japanese steamer Kairyumaru advises that the vessel discovered mattresses, life-jackets and many broken planks floating in…

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Dirigible Wrecked

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 2

During a violent thunderstorm the U.S. Navy dirigible Akron, the largest airship in the world, crashed into the sea off the New Jersey coast. A…

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Latest Cable News Soviet Steamer Sinks

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1933 · page 7

SPITZBERGEN, Saturday.—"Farewell, everybody. We are sinking," was the wireless message from the Soviet salvage steamer Rousian…

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Missing Steamer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 7

Kingston Smith made another expensive but unsuccessful search for the missing collier. Christina Fraser, the general Opinion is that the…

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Wreckage at Green Cape No- From Missing Collier SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 1

It has been definitely established that the hatch cover, picked up by the Lighthouse-keeper at Green Cape, was not from the missing collier Christina…

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Mollisons Crash ’Plane Wrecked in the Dark

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1933 · page 2

After successfully crossing the Atlantic on a non-stop flight from England to New York, the Mollisons crashed at 9 o’clock last Sunday night…

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Determined Suicide Hotel Wrecked and Four Persons Killed PRAGUE

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 August 1933 · page 1

A woman suicided by exploding a bomb, which wrecked a four-storeyed hotel, killing at least four persons including…

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Sugar Steamer Sunk

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Tuesday 15 August 1933 · page 2

MACKAY (Q.).—The lighter Neptune, with 385 tons of sugar on board, was sunk at Flat Top last night, when about to tie up to the…

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Latest Cable News Wreck Ok the Kreuzzee

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1933 · page 7

ROTTERDAM.— The sole survivor of the crew of eleven of the German motorship Kreuzzee, from Bremer haven, bound for London, arrived…

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