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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926

5 stories in South Coast's papers

About Mr. Cliff. Richards. Shipwrecked on the Barque Kadosh of Boston at Minot's Ledge (U.s.a.) Fifty-four Years Ago

The Nowra Leader · Friday 2 April 1926 · page 6

The following letters will go to show how Mr. Cliff Richards was privileged to have although, in the coarse of his sea-faring career; he met with many similar mishaps. We might explain that the genial Cliff. interviewed some the officers of the American Fleet who advised him to…

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Wreckers at Wreck Bay. Police Court Proceedings

The South Coast Register · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 7

Assault and insulting language was the double-barrelled charged that William Henry Butler found levelled him at the Nowra Police…

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Radio and Shipwreck

The South Coast Register · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 9

That the absence of radio apparatus on the ill-fated steamer Dorrigo was at least indirectly responsible for the death of 22 seamen, is the…

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Fast Steamer Scheme. Between England and Australia

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 17 November 1926 · page 3

A movement is on foot to improve the steamer service between England and Australia. It is pointed out that the mail-ships on the Australian and…

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