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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1925

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Moldavia Late Jervis Bay Helps Steamer LONDON, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 8

The P. and O. liner Moldavia will arrive at Plymouth 12 hours late having been delayed by the Channel gale. The Commonwealth steamer Jervis…

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Power Plant Wrecked Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 11

No. 1 power plant at Junction North mine has been wrecked, and, as a result, the generation of electricity has been stopped, and the mill has had to…

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Schooner Wrecked Total Loss Likely Crew Reported Safe Hobart

The Sun · Sunday 1 March 1925 · page 2

The wooden three masted fore and aft schooner Leprena, 100 tons on a passage from Recherche to Port Adelaide with a cargo of…

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Wrecked Within Sound of Lighthouse Bell HOBART

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 March 1925 · page 7

A message was received from the head keeper of Eddystone Lighthouse this morning, stating, that, the wooden fore and aft schooner, Lepvent (100…

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Schooner Leprena. Probable Total Wreck

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 4

The wooden three-masted fore and aft schooner Leprena, 143 tons, on a passage, from Recherche to Port Adelaide with a cargo of 100,000 super feet…

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Schooner on Rocks All Hands Saved Total Loss Feared

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 5

The loss of the Tasmanian-owned three-masted schooner Leprena is reported from Hobart. The vessel went ashore three miles…

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Another Sale. Commonwealth Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 4

It is rumoured that the Australian Commonwealth steamer Calulu has been sold, subject to inspection. She has been idle at Sydney since July of…

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The Wrecked Konini

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 3

The wrecked Koninl is scarcely yet a past number, says a Southland paper. She still reposes gracefully on her rocky bed, and fortune favors the salvagine company a good…

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Uncharted Rock. Schooner Wrecked. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 19

The schooner Leprena, of 100 tons, bound from Recherche to Adelaide with a full cargo of timber, was wrecked on Friday on an uncharted rock two miles north of George's…

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Another Sale. Commonwealth Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

It is rumoured that the Australian Commonwealth steamer Calulu has been sold, subject to Inspection. She has been idle at Sydney since July of…

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New Steamer. Launch of Hebburn

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

The latest addition to Huddart, Parker's fleet Is the Hebburn, which was launched on January 8 from the yards of the Blyth Shipbuilding and Dry…

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City Road and Its Wrecking. To the Editor of "Construction."

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 7

Sir,— In "Construction" of February 11, under the above sub-heading, it is stated that owing to the way the stone pitching has been laid in the reconstruction of the City-road,…

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How Strangler Lewis Went Down Giant Munn Hurls Him to the Mat and Pins Him There the Strangler Beaten at His Own Game: He Is Wrecked Physically

Referee · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 10

THERE is a Biblical saying that the fellow who draws a sword shall perish by a sword. And it was just that sort of retributive justice that befell Ed (Strangler) Lewis, master of the bruising, bone-crushing headlock, when he lost hib title of heavyweight champion of the world to Wayne (Big) Munn, out in…

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Grimmett Wrecks More Fortunes England's Position Desperate 5 Wickets to Fall -- 367 to Win

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 1

England's position in the fifth test match is hopeless. Five wickets are down for 88, and 367 runs are still required to win. Grimmett made another sensational attack, and…

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Ashore at Bateman's Bay

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 1

been heightened by the disappearance of her husband, Mr. F. P. Mouat. Mount was seen in the city on…

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Belbowrie Ashore. Dangerous Position

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 4

A message received last evening stated that the steamer Belbowrie, outward bound to Sydney, went ashore at the entrance to Bateman's Bay…

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Fire on Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 5

On Tuesday a fire broke out on the steame. Riverina, lying at No. 3 wharf, Miller's Point. The fire was caused by the [?]me of an oxy-welding appliance, but was…

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Vessel Ashore the Belbowrie Crew Believed Safe

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 1

A telegram was received last night from Batsman's Bay, stating that the well-known coasting steamer Belbowrie had gone aground…

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Skirting the Globe in a Lifeboat Cornishmen's Venture London, Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 8

Coastguardsman Hitchens, with three other Cornishmen and a wireless operator, leave the Thames in the first week in May to…

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Events of the Day Vessel Ashore Belbowrie Wrecked Bateman's Bay Bar

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 March 1925 · page 4

The well-known coasting steamer Belbowrie went aground at the entrance to Bateman's Bay (N.S.W.) during a hurricane on Wednesday…

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