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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

9 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Aeroplane Wrecked

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 February 1935 · page 1

An aeroplane, piloted by Gova Henry, was forced down in a swamp near Warnervale. in the Newcastle district, yesterday morning, and was totally…

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Twelve Drowned Spanish Lifeboat Disaster LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1935 · page 1

A Casablanca (Spain) telegram says that twelve persons were drowned when a lifeboat capsized on the way to the rescue of a Spanish smack which…

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Aeroplane Wrecked

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 3

The beach patrol plane, used to look out for sharks, crashed into the scrub at Harbord on Sunday morning, after the engine cut out, and was wrecked…

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Steamer Adrift Off Queensland Coast

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 July 1935 · page 1

The steamer Maheno was drifting helplessly last night off the Queensland coast, with the steamer Oonah, which had been towing her, unable to…

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Plane Wrecked Airmen’s Narrow Escape SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1935 · page 1

Two Sydney airmen, Rex Nicholl (26) and Albert Needham (27), narrowly escaped death yesterday when ’plane caught fire about 15 miles…

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Steamer Vanishes After S.O.S. CaIl LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 November 1935 · page 1

Following an SOS. call from the North Sea last night, the steamer Sheafbrook, with 20 persons abroad, vanished completely. The vessel’s…

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Wrecked 'Plane Story Discredited

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 November 1935 · page 2

After making a check of the movements of aeroplanes in recent weeks, Royal Air Force officers discredit the report that an aeroplane,…

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American Search Plane Wrecked in Crash ATLANTA (Georgia)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 December 1935 · page 1

A ’plane being flown by Mr. Russell Thaw to participate in the Antarctic search for Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth and Mr. H. Kenyon crashed at the local…

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Missing Steamer Believed to Have Foundered

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 4

It is now feared that the steamer Paringa, which has been missing for four days, has foundered off the Victorian coast…

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