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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1925

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Lifeboat To Rescue Lighthouse Visited in Mountainous Seas. London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 December 1925 · page 3

Responding to a visual signal, four miles from the coast, the Saint Ives lifeboat, motorless, but driven by sails, battled with mountainous seas on…

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To Be Paid Off Maheno's Impossible Crew Replacement by Oil Steamer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1925 · page 1

Because of the action of the crew in causing serious delays at practically every port, the Union Steamship Company decided to the up the Maheno and…

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Wreckage Floating at Sea

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 December 1925 · page 2

The schooner Holmwood, on a voyage from Wanganui to Newcastle, reported that a large mass of wreckage had been seen floating in the sea some…

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Steamer in Distress

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1925 · page 2

A wireless message intercepted at Land's End indicates that the steamship Coronado, enrouts. to Jamaica from Avonmouth is in need of…

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