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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Is It the Southern Cloud ? Report of 'Plane Wreckage Near Yass

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

Police and civilians set out on Wednesday morning to investigate the report that an object resembling a wrecked 'plane had been seen in…

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Lugger Wrecked

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 2

Six Japanese members of the crew of the lugger Ena had a narrow escape from drowning when the vessel was wrecked on a reef off Port…

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Collier Wrecked Cook and Seaman Dead Others of Crew Rescued SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 1

The collier Minmi. 1455, tons, which left Melbourne on Saturday for Newcastle struck the rocks off Cape Banks on the northern side entrance to…

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Starving Refugees Appeal for Steamer Passages

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 4

A quarter of a million refugees, on the verge of sta[?]vation, are crowding into Santander, 40 miles to the west fo Bilbao…

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Fishing Launch Wrecked

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 2

A fishing launch bound north from Newport was wrecked near the entrance to Newcastle Harbour last…

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Bomb Outrage Rent Office Portly Wrecked Dublin

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 1

An infernal machine partly wrecked a rent office at Loughrea, in County Galway, where the agent for the Earl of Harewood, who is the Kng’s brother…

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Wreck of the Batavia

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 November 1937 · page 3

Everyone with tire good fortune, to go to beautiful Adelaide for a holiday should see, in the Library there, Pelsart’s diary and a relic of the wreck…

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