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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1929

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Mrs. Miller Wins Air Race After Wrecking 'Plane CLEVELAND

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 August 1929 · page 4

Just before the start of a race at the women's Air Derby celebrations to-day, an aeroplane in which Mrs. Keith Miller was to have competed was…

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Mrs. Miller Wins Air Race After Wrecking Plane CLEVELAND

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 29 August 1929 · page 1

Just before the srart of a race at the Women's Air Derby celebrations an aeroplane in which Mrs. Keith Miller was to have competed was…

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Storm Over Japan Fishing Fleets Wrecks Tokio, Aug. 28

The Daily Express · Thursday 29 August 1929 · page 3

An extremely [?]lent stor[?] was raging at Hollald[?] on Monday night and yesterday. Seventy fishermen were reported drowned through bo[?]…

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Fell From Steamer in Water for 30 Hours Woman's Strange Tale Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 1

A French housewife is now caring for Miss Gloria MacAllister, who was found semi-conscious on a beach at Montalivet this morning. The British…

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Gas Explosion Wrecks City Office Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 30 August 1929 · page 2

Escaping gas caused a terrific explosion in Chatham House, Pitt St., City, at noon today, and did considerable damage to the front portion…

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Steamer Sunk Off Californian Coast San Francisco, August 29

The Daily Express · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 8

The coastal steamer San Joan was sunk ln a collision 30 miles south of here. She carried 55 passengers and a crew if 45. many were…

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Coastal Steamer Sunk Collision Off San Francisco San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1929 · page 4

The coastal steamer San Juan was sunk in a collision 30 miles south of San Francisco. She carried 55 pas­sengers, and a crew of 45, many of…

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Steamer Passengers Forced Ashore Cabins Covered with Oil COLOMBO

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 2 September 1929 · page 1

About 80 passengers of the P. and O. liner, Baradine, including a number of children were forced to come ashore on Friday night as a result of…

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Steamer Passengers Forged Ashore Cabins Covered with Oil Colombo

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1929 · page 4

About 80 passengers of the P. & O. liner Baradine, including a number of children, were forced to come ashore on Friday night as a result of their…

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Midnight Crash Steamer in Fog Sixty-eight Missing Oil Hampers Rescue San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Monday 2 September 1929 · page 1

Sixty-eight persons are missing—probably all drowned—following a collision off the coast of Southern California, between the…

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Explosion in Grate Two Persons Injured Room Wrecked Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 2

Two persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal had been thrown on to the fire last night…

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Federal Situation No Dissension in Ministry Mr. Bruce's Disclaimer Wreckers Within Party SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 2

The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, at the Constitutional Association to-day, delivered a scathing attack on the critics of the Government. He said…

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Fed. Situation No Dissension in Ministry Mr. Bruce's Disclaimer Wreckers Within Party. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 1

THE PRIME Minister, Mr. Bruce, at the Constitutional Association yesterday, delivered a scathing attack on the critics of the…

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Kitchen Wrecked Explosive in Coal Auckland

The Daily Express · Tuesday 3 September 1929 · page 1

Two persons were injured when a terrific explosion occurred in a kitchen grate after a quantity of coal had been thrown on the fire last…

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Moth 'Plane Wrecked Occupants Escape Serious Injury Ran Out of Petrol

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 4 September 1929 · page 2

A Moth, on the way from Melbourne to Sydney yesterday, ran out of petrol near Bethungra, at 3.30, and the pilot attempted a landing between the road…

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Missing Mail Plane Wreck Story Invented Los Angeles, September 5

The Daily Express · Saturday 7 September 1929 · page 1

A report from Callup. New Mexico. that a passenger plane which had been missing for a couple of days, with five passengers and crew…

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Steamer Sinks Finland Disaster Eighty Lives Lost [?]Fors. Sept. 3

The Daily Express · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 1

The worst disaster in Finland's history occurred when the Lake steamer. Karu, with 200 passengers aboard, left Tammerfors during a…

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FRlSCO Air Mail Wreckage Found Los Angeles, September. 7

The Daily Express · Monday 9 September 1929 · page 3

The wreckage of the missing transcontinental a[?]plane “City of San' Francisco,” was found to-day on Mount Tayor New Mexico [?] the…

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Deportee Missing No Trace on Steamer May Have Reached Shore SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 September 1929 · page 4
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W. Youlden, the Victorian deportee from New Zealand, who absconded from Sydney in 1927 on a larceny charge, and who was returned to…

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