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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

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Nazis in Canada Jewish Cemetery Wrecked Winnipeg

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 May 1933 · page 1

Investigation into the wrecking of a Jewish cemetery here recently has revealed that a Nazi organisation of 600 members, pledged to exclude the…

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Ships at Sea Steamer in Difficulties Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1933 · page 4

The Navigation Department to-day received a message from a lighthouse keeper on Montague Island, off the south coast, stating that a big steamer…

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Emden Bell Now on German Steamer Stolen From War Museum Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1933 · page 1

It was reported at detective headquarters that the Emden bell, which was stolen from the War Museum, was now on board the German steamer…

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Emden Bell Search of Steamer Consul's Request Unanswered Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 2

So far the German Consul in Sydney (Dr. A[?]mis) has received no reply to his cable message to the authorities in Berlin requesting them to search the…

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Missing Collier Believed to Have Foundered Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 2

There does not seem to be any doubt that the collier Christina Fraser founded during a gale. The master of the inter-State…

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Sensational Story Two Men Charged With [?]mept to Wreck Oil Depot SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Ellison Thornley Girdham, aged 37 years, a contractor, of Forbes, and Milton William Orr, aged 35 years, a garage…

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Deportee's Bold Bid to Escape From Steamer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 1

Despite the close guard which has been kept over Fritz Kreuzer, who dived into Auckland harbor while being deported to Sydney by the…

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Air Disaster Lithuanians Crash Bodies Found in Forest 'Plane Wrecked Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 July 1933 · page 2

The wreckage of the aeroplane Lithuanica, and the bodies of Stephen Darius [?] Stanley Girenas have been found in the pine forest at K[?]amm,…

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Crew of Ketch Marooned on Island Lived on Fish and Oysters Mackay (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 1

The five members of the crew of the ketch Konka, which was wrecked on O'Connor Island last week, and who were rescued a week later, made light…

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Men and Machines Albury Mail Wreckage Salvaged Big Day's Work

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 July 1933 · page 6

Those who saw the railway carnriages st[?] down the embankment at Bowning as a result of the Albury mail train derailment…

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Two Children Stowaway on Steamer Wanted to See the World Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 July 1933 · page 1

Because they wished to see another country two little girls stowed away on the liner Otsova yesterday. The girls were Agnes Bowler, aged…

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Young Stowaways Put Ashore at Adelaide Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1933 · page 1

Agnes Bowler (12) and Lena Delaney (9), who stowed away from Melbourne on the liner Orsova, were put ashore today and were brought before…

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Paddle Steamer Fouls Yachts at Cowes King's Pinnace to Aid London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 August 1933 · page 1

High winds and heavy seas around the English coast some interference with shipping traffic to-day. A pinnace from the royal yacht,…

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Four Killed Woman's Suicide Bomb Wrecks Hotel Prague

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 August 1933 · page 5

A woman commuted suicide by exploding a bomb and wrecked the fourstoried hotel, the Europe, at Brno, kill ing at least four people, including a…

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Atlantic Crossing New Steamer Record London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1933 · page 1

By crossing the Atlantic from Farther Point in the St. Lawrence River to Cherbourg breakwater in four days seven hours 32 minutes, at an average…

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Fire on Schooner 46 Persons Rescued by Dutch Steamer Amsterdam

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 August 1933 · page 1

A wireless message rom the Dutch steamer Hercules tells a thrilling story of the rescue of 46 men, the crew and passengers of the…

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Gelignite Explodes Hut Wrecked Men's Remarkable Escape BRAIDWOOD

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 August 1933 · page 2

Two men had remarkable escapes from death at Bell's Creek, eightmiles from Braidwood, when 22 p[?] of gelignite which they were warming…

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Gelignite Explodes Hut Wrecked Men's Remarkable Escape Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1933 · page 1

Two men had remarkable escapes from death at Bell's Creek, eight miles from Braidwood, when 22 plugs of gelignite which they were warming is…

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Gelignite Explodes Hut Wrecked Man's Remarkable Escape

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 August 1933 · page 2

Two men had remarkable escapes from death at Bell's Creek, eight miles from Braidwood, on Friday last, when 22 plugs of gelignite which they…

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