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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Wreckage Washed Ashore Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 April 1934 · page 1

During last night a large quantity of wreckage from the steamer Jap was washed ashore at Forster. The vessel is rapidly breaking up…

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Labor Disunity Federal A.L.P. CONFERENCE Lang Party Condemned as Wreckers SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 4

The bitterness of feeling existing between the Federal Labor Party and the Lang Party was emphasised at the annual conference of the New South…

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Easter Cruise Sydney-Melbotirne-Hobart Smooth Seas and Happy Voyagers Excursions Ashore

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 8

The P. & O. Company's R.M.S. Narkunda, of 19,572 tons gross, which has piled for many years between England and Australia…

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Codock Monoplane Propeller Wrecked Safe Landing Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 1

Mr. L. J. Wackett, designer of Kingsford-Smith's twin engined Co-dock monoplane, said on return to Sydney today that while the 'plane…

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Steamer Sinks Crew's Narrow Escape Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 3

Four members of a crow wore trapped in the forecastle when the coastal steamer Boambee sank in sha[?]ow water in the Williams River, near…

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Air Crash Wreckage Found London

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 1

A FRENCH air liner which left Le Bourget yesterday morning for Croydon, with three passengers and a crew of three, is missing…

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French Air Liner Crashes in English Channel Wreckage Found Loss of Six Lives Practically a Certainty S.O.S. Signals Suddenly Cease Aeroplanes and Ships Searching the Sea LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 1

A French air liner which left Le Bourget this morning for Croydon, with three passengers and a crew of three, is missing. It is believed to have crashed in the English Channel, and it is feared that all the occupants have been…

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Balloon Wrecked One Body Found Other Occupant Missing Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 May 1934 · page 2

Germany's biggest balloon ascended from Ritterfield on Sunday morning for the purpose of measuring the intensity of the sun'f rays in the…

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Island Steamer Aground Near Jervis Bay Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 1

Built for the bland trade; the steamer Decikoko, which was launched at Huskisson last Tuesday, went ashore last Friday night at the…

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Vigilants May March Again at San Francisco General Strike 75,000 Men Cease Work May Extend to Atlantic Coast Irate Citizens Raid and Wreck Communist Headquarters San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 July 1934 · page 1

The general strike began at 8 o'clock this morning when 75,000 men ceased work. Alarming riots have broken out in the East Bay section. Crowds of irate citizens to-day raided and wrecked…

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Terrific Explosion Relief Works Depot Wrecked Communists Blamed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 July 1934 · page 1

A terrific explosion occurred early his morning among a large quantity of gelignite and detonators in the unemployment relief works depot at the…

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Air Disaster Twelve Persons Killed Child Struck by Wreckage Berlin

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 July 1934 · page 1

A Swiss Condor passenger aeroplane, flying from Zurich, crashed at Tuttlingen, near Lake Constance. Eight passengers and the crew of…

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Catarrh Dangerous Often Makes Victims Worn Out, Bun-down Wrecks

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1934 · page 3

To be able to breathe freely, heat clearly smell, taste, and arise in the morning refreshed and strong with head and throat clear and free from phlegm…

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Montoro Ashore Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1934 · page 1

The Burns Philp passenger liner Montoro is reported to have bone ashore at Fortification Point, near Finschafen. New Guinea. The…

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Harbor Collision Ferry Steamer Sunk Three Lives Lost

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 August 1934 · page 2

Two bodies have been recovered from the sunken ferry steamer "Bluebell" which sank following a collision with the coastal steamer…

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Aeroplane Wrecked Passengers Unhurt Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 August 1934 · page 1

In one of the most spectacular crashes at Mascot for some time an aeroplane was wrecked but two passengers were unhurt. The plane was…

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Steamer Sinks Believed 30 Drowned BAHI (Brazil)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 August 1934 · page 1

Thirty persons are believed to be drowned on Tuesday in the sinking of the passenger steamer Sao in the Francisco river…

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Newcastle Ferry Collision with Steamer Marine Court Inquiry Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 8

A Marine Court inquiry was opened here to-day into the collision between a ferry and a steamer resulting in the deaths of three women passengers…

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Sea Gives Up Its Gold Wrecked Egypt Successful Salvage London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 1

Gold bullion valued at approximately £162,000 was brought to Plymouth to-day by the Italian salvage ships, Artiglio from the wreck of the liner…

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My Faithful Friend "Love Me, Love My Dog" a Dog and the Dunbar Wreck

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 September 1934 · page 3

Newfoundland dogs have a remarkable faculty for the saving of lives, somewhat like St. Bernard dogs in that respect, and similar to them, too…

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