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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1928

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Aeroplane Crashes Wrecked Machine Burnt Coonabarabran

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 August 1928 · page 4

James Sinclair, a local resident, wits seriously injured in a sensational aeroplane crash on the ra[?] to-day. The machine was in charge of…

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Expediting Mails Steamer and Aeroplane Paris

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1928 · page 4

The steamer He de France saved two days in the eastward trans-Atlantic mail service by uncaps of on aeroplane slict into the air at 60 miles…

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Fire on Steamer Two Explosions Flames Extinguished SUVA (Fiji)

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 28 August 1928 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

A fire broke out at 7 o'clock on Friday morning in the No. 4 hold on the steamer Port Napier. The cause unknown. After the fire was…

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Missing Aeroplane Wreokage Washed Ashore Pt: Angeles (Wash.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 1

The bodies of Mrs. A. Scott, of London, and Dr. Floyd, of Souverak, New Jersey, who were two of the seven lost when an aeroplane flying from…

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Amundsen's Aeroplane Wreckage Found Oslo

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1928 · page 4

The "Afternoon Post" publishes a report that the wreckage of Captain Board Amundsen's aeroplane was found near the Vesteraalen Islands,…

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Tempestuous Voyage Steamer Escorted to Port Capetown

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1928 · page 1

The steamer Clan Lamont limped into Algoa Bay after battling since Friday with terrific seas from Madagascar. She was making Capetown…

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Tempestuous Voyage Steamer Escorted to Port Cape Town

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 September 1928 · page 2

The steamer Clan Lamont limped into Algoa Bay after battling since Friday with terrific seas from Madagascar. She was making Cape Town…

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Perils of the Sea Steamer's Deck Swept Chief Engineer Killed Lascar Drowned LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 September 1928 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

THE CHIEF engineer, Mr. Tullock, and a lascar lost their lives, while the fourth and fifth engineers and some lascars were…

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Ferry Steamer on Rocks Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 6

During a heavy wind on the harbor the ferry steamer Munimbla was blown on the rocks near Kurraba wharf this afternoon. The passengers were taken…

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Bomb in Steamer's Hold Anonymous Warning Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 September 1928 · page 6

The Port Adelaide office of the Waterside Workers' Federation receivan anonymous telephone message today stating that a bimmb had been…

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Steamer on Fire Albany (W.a.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1928 · page 2

The steamer Castlemoor, which arrived yesterday with a fire in two holds, has been beached. The fire is still burning fiercely, despite the…

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Collision in ElBE Paddle Steamer Rammed Panic on Board British Captain Averts Catastrophe HAMBURG

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 1

When the British steamer Cornwood rammed the German passenger paddle steamer Koenigin Luise in the Elbe River yesterday evening, the…

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Amundsen's Aeroplane Wreckage Found at Tromso Oslo

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1928 · page 3

Wreckage believed to bo from the aeroplane in which Captain Roald Amundsen and Major Guilband searched for the Italia, was found at Tromso. It apparently had been…

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Mail Steamer "Black" No Work on Cathay Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 September 1928 · page 3

Following on the decision of a m[?] meeting to declare the liner Cathay "black." no work was done on the vessel when she arrived to-day. The…

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Small Steamer Sinks Crew Rows Ashore Timely Discovery of Leak Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 September 1928 · page 1

The coastal steamer Kallawatta sprang a leak off Newport early this morning. She filled rapidly and sank within half an hour. The crew of six…

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"Black" Steamer Worked Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 24 September 1928 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The P. and O. liner, Cathay, which had been declared "black" at other ports, was worked on Saturday. The arrival of the liner was the first…

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North Sea Gales Havoc in Belgium Nieuport and Zeebrugge Flooded Small Graft Wrecked London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 October 1928 · page 3

Terrific North Sea gales played [?]avoc along the coast of Belgium [?]ooding the country which was [?]ted by the Belgians in 1914 to save…

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