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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Fire on Steamer Hull Still Smoulders Casualties Stated to be 166 New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 September 1934 · page 1

Throughout the day the smouldering hulk of the ill-fated Morrow Castle, which was beached 200ft from the Ashbury Park broadwalk, constantly…

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Steamer Aground in Port Phillip Bay Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 September 1934 · page 1

The interstate steamer Milors ran aground on a reef in Port Phillip last night. Her position is serious, as she is bumping badly and her…

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Wreckage Found in Healesville District Is It Part of Southern Cloud? Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 October 1934 · page 1

The discovery in the Healesville district of a pice of brass wire about three feet long with curiously shaped hooks on each end has revived rumors…

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Stowaway on Steamer Not Permitted to Land Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 2 October 1934 · page 1

A stowaway aboard the Port Wellington was not permitted to land when the liner berthed in Sydney today…

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Orient Steamer to Be Launched by Prince Fremantle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 October 1934 · page 1

Mr. Alan Anderson, chairman of the Orient Steam Navigation Co., who arrived on the Otranto to-day, said that the launching and christening…

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Six Killed Cross-Channel 'Plane Crashes Alongside Steamer Rescue Work Under Difficulties LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 October 1934 · page 2

Six were killed, including the pilot, when a Hillman's Airways aeroplane crashed into the English Channel alongside the Channel…

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British Steamer Lost Rescue Ships Find No Trace London

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 4

Grave anxiety is felt for the British cargo steamer, Millpool, 4218 tons, to whose assistance the Cunarder liner Ascania, and Canadian…

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Plane Wrecked Gruesome Discovery Brisbane, To-day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 October 1934 · page 4

Reduced to a charred mass of wreckage, by fire, the missing Quantas mail plane, Atlanta, was discovered sixteen miles from Longreach…

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Steamer Aground Officers and Crew Resould by British Warship Hong Kong

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1934 · page 1

H.M.S. Suffolk to-day rescued six officers, three apprentices and 55 Laskar members of the crew of the s.s. City of Cambridge, which is aground…

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The Lifeboat Service

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1934 · page 3

The number of schools which took part in the Lifeboat essay competition this year was 250 an increase on lost year of 294, and for the first time the…

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Nine Drowned Schooner Sinks Winnipeg (Manitoba)

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 October 1934 · page 4

Nine persona were drowned when a fishing schooner sank, following an explosion [?] petrol tank…

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Missing Miss Hobart Wreckage Reported Sighted Off Rodondo Island Sympathetic Message From Prince Henry MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1934 · page 1

On his return to-day, after making a search for the missing air liner, Miss Hobart, Pilot Frewin, who flew the Miss Launceston, reported having sighted wreckage in the seas 10 miles south-west of Rodondo Island. The wreckage…

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The Miss Hobart Vessel Picks Up Wreckage Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 October 1934 · page 1

A radio message received in Melbourne to-day from the inter-State vessel Kooyong stated that she had picked up wreckage seen by Pilot…

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Missing Air Liner Wreckage Not From Miss Hobart Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1934 · page 1

The wreckage found off Rodond[?] Island yesterday was examined at Geelong to-day and was found not to be a part of the missing Miss Hobart…

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Missing Air Liner Further Wreckage Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 November 1934 · page 1

Four boxes believed to have contained food, and a quantity of threeply wood were washed up near Waratah Bay to-day and are believed to be…

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Miss Hobart Wreckage Found Melbourne

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 November 1934 · page 4

A party searching for the wreckage of the air liner, Miss Hobart, found a quantity of plywood and boxes on the beach at Waratah Bay,…

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Freighter Ashore Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 November 1934 · page 1

The freighter, Iron Monarch, is ashore on the Stockton breakwater in the entrance to the harbor. Salvage gear was land on the vessel the…

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Bodies Washed Ashore Fate of Steamer, Coramba SYDNEY

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 December 1934 · page 3

It is now considered certain that the missing steamer, Coramba, foundered at the Nobbys, Phillip Island, Victoria, with a crew of 17…

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Storm Havoc Twenty-six Dead Coastal Vessel Believed Lost Two Bodies Washed Ashore MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 3 December 1934 · page 1

THE death roll of the fearful storm which swept Victoria during the last few days is still mounting, and to the eight known dead…

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Twenty-six Dead As the Result of Storms Havoc in Victoria Crew of Coastal Vessel Believed Lost Two Bodies Washed Ashore Swollen Rivers and Hundreds of People Homeless MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 December 1934 · page 1

The death roll of the fearful storm which swept Victoria during the last few days is still mounting, and to the eight known dead reported yesterday may now be added 18 more, the members of the crew of the coastal steamer…

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