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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1934

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Short Story by the Light of the Wreck-wood Fire

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 7

John Osborne was standing at the Window of the Humbert Pilot Office, Not that there was anything to be seen outside on this wintry…

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Search for Ulm to Be Abandoned Instruction to U.S. NAVY Look Out for Wreckage HONOLULU

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 December 1934 · page 1

The navy has been officially instructed to end its search for Ulm and his companions to-night when three destroyers will return from…

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Search for Ulm Schooner Commissioned by Mrs. Ulm Believes Husband Alive Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 December 1934 · page 2

A motor schooner to continue the search for Ulm and his companions among the islands in the vicinity of Hawaii was cliarterod by Mrs. Ulm…

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Coramba Wreckage Located Off Phillip Island Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 1

What is believed to be the wreckage of the Victorian coastal steamer, Coramba, which disappeared with a crew of 17 on November 30, was located to…

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Ulm's ’Plane? Wreckage Found HONOLULU

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 December 1934 · page 4

Two pieces of areoplane wreckage, possibly belonging to the ill-fated Star of Australia, were found this morning on the beach of the island of…

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Aeroplane Wreckage Sent to Honolulu for Identification Vessel Still Searching Honolulu

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 1

Two pieces of aeroplane wreckage, possibly belonging to the ill-fated Star of Australia, were found yesterday morning on the beach of the…

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Aeroplane Wreckage Found on Island Beach Is It From C T. P. Ulm's Machine? Pieces Despatched to Honolulu for Identification Purposes Coastguard Vessel Still Searching HONOLULU

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 1

Two pieces of aeroplane wreckage, possibly belonging to the ill-fated Star of Australia, were found this morning on the beach of the island of Ninhau, 150 miles north-west of Honolulu, by a member of the Robinson family which…

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Mrs Ulm's Hope That Husband Still Lives Schooner Search State to Pay Cost Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1934 · page 1

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) informed Mrs. Ulm to-day that the State Government will assume responsibility of the cost of the schooner which…

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AUTOMATIC S.O.S. First Coastal Steamer Fitted Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 December 1934 · page 1

The coastal steamer Birchgrove Park is the first vessel in Australia to be fitted with automatic S.O.S. wireless appliances under the new safety…

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Automatic Wireless First Steamer Fitted

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 29 December 1934 · page 6

The first vessel in Australia to be [?] with an automatic distress signel wireless transmitter is the steamer Birchgrove Park, a small…

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New Passenger Steamer

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 December 1934 · page 2

Viekers-Armstrong's, of Barrow-on Furness, have received an order for the construction of a new passenger ship for the Union Steamship Company…

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