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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930

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Excursion Steamer Sinks After Explosion 40 Passengers Missing Flo[?] Disaster MIAMI (Florida)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1930 · page 1

About 100 persons were resoued and the bodies recovered from the scene of the loss of the excursion steamer Eureka II., which blew up…

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Prohibited Migrants Attempt to Leave Steamer Captain's Tact Saves Trouble Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 December 1930 · page 2
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Following arrangements made at a secret meeting yesterday, 49 Italians, prohibited immigrants on the liner Orford, unexpectedly rushed the…

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Steamer In Distress in Bass Strait

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 27 December 1930 · page 12

The Navigation Department has received a message that the steamer Cabarita, which left Port Kembla for Hobart last Wednesday, in…

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Steamer Cabarita Trouble Overcome Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1930 · page 2

The trouble on the steamer Cabarita has been overcome, and the vessel is expected to reach Hobart on Tuesday morning. A fireman was badly scalded…

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Ferry Steamer Aground Refloated Without Damage Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1930 · page 2

The ferry steamer Kirribilli went of to the rocks near Cremorne to-day, but was subsequently taken off undamaged…

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Steamer Stranded Crews Drunken Orgy Man Killed with Hammer Riga

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 December 1930 · page 1

A British steamer was stranded in the Baltic during Christmas. The craw of 48, giving up all hope of rescue, broached a number of cases of…

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