Wreck of the Ocean Transport
Evening News · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 12
HEADING FOR REEF.—This photograph was from Ocean Island a few minutes before the Ocean Transport, Whose crew was rescued by Kanakes, struck the [?] while she was still fighting to keep clear. REFLECTIONS TO ORDER.-Not a flood picture, but a [?] of Fifth Avenue, New York, taken with a new photographic device…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 20
Messrs. W. G. Deuchar and Cor., Ltd., agents for the steamer City of Palermo, were advised yesterday that the steamer would be despatched from Adelaide for Melbourne last night. The steamer should reach…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 20
The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company's new cargo steamer Kindur left Falmouth for Sydney on Monday. The vessel is coming via the Suez Canal ana will not touch at any port. She has sufficient…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 17
After having been idle in Melbourne for several years the old interstate steamer Coogee was towed outside Port Phillip Heads yesterday morning and sunk…
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The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 14
When the steamer City of Palmero, from Singapore and Java, reached Port Adelaide last Sunday afternoon, it was reported that a colored cook's assistant was…
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The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 February 1928 · page 15
When the Norwegian Company's whaling steamer, C. A. Larsen, 13,246 tons, was entering Paterson's Inlet, on the east coast of Stewart island (N.Z.)…
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Evening News · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 13
SIMFROSO YOBERO, a young Filipino stowed away on the steamer Ocean Transport when she was leaving Honolulu. At the Central Court to-day he was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Collaroy 'Crows' & 'Wombats' Beach Named After Wreck of Ship "Unsurpassed for Surf-board Shooting," Says Captain of Club One of the Finest Houses
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1928 · page 5
In 1911 the "Crows" and the "Wombats" two week-end surfing camps, hashed in the golden sunshine at Collaroy Beach, and hurtled towards the sands like Vikings on the crests of the breakers…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 4
The Japanese freight steamer Kinko Maru (3151 tons) went ashore on the rocks near Turnabout Island, and is now a total…
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Evening News · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 9
THE steamer Ulimaroa has been held up by trouble with one of the cooks. The departure of the vessel has been postponed…
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The Labor Daily · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 1
A glimpse of the havoc wrought by the fire at Tanner and Middleton's timber yards on Wednesday night…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 21
To mark the entry into the Australian trade of the steamer Taormina, of the Navigazione Generale italiana line, the directors of the Australia-italia shipping Company, Ltd., managing agents, and the master,…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 19
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday. -- A twenty minutes' strike of the cooks and stewards on the Marama occurred this afternoon…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 4 March 1928 · page 10
Outstanding feats of heroism by lifeboatmen arc recorded by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in their review of the past year, Three gold medals—the lifeboatman's V.C.—were awarded, and, for the first time for many years, one man received the gold medal for…
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Sunday Times · Sunday 4 March 1928 · page 9
When William Ernest Challender, a Tasmanian, was released from a Hobart hospital (which he entered after being evicted from the home of his wife's mother because he had contracted a dread sexual disease), his wife, Constance Isabel Challender, did not again cohabit with him, and in the Divorce Court, on…
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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 5
Flying the yellow flag, the steamer City of Palermo, on arrival at Sydney yesterday from Singapore, via ports, was sent into quarantine. A case of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 11
Called to the steamer Vardulla, lying at No. 5 wharf. Woolloomooloo Bay, on Saturday afternoon, Sergeant Slaney and Constable Roberts, of the Water Police, experienced…
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The Sun · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 5
With his face badly scarred, and with both eyes swollen and discolored. John McCormack 23, a fireman, pleaded guilty at the Water Police Court this…
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The Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 13
Finding itself unable to replace a baker and a butcher who left the liner shortly before sailing time, the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Of Social Interest Dancing in Moonlight on Steamer's Decks Ball on Mooltan to Help Royal Life-saving Society; Radio Broadcasts Music
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 18
Dances on liners are always popular, from a romantic point of view, as well as because they are unusual. On board the R.M.S. Mooltan last night, everything, from the floral decorations and flags, to the music and…
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