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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930

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Stranded Men Signal to Steamer Hobart

Evening News · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 8

No trace has yet been found of the two men who signalled with handkerchiefs to the coastal steamer Gundlab when she was passing shouted island…

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Fire on Steamer Ningchow in Trouble Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 1

Bound from Melbourne to Fremantle, the Blue Funnel steamer Ningchow, when off Cape Naturalists today, sent a wireless message to the…

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Ablaze at Sea! Steamer's Race to Bunbury Fire in Bunkers

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 3

PERTH, Wednesday. -- With her No. 3 bunker ablaze off Cape Naturaliste, in the Great Australian…

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Now Nearly a Century Old Newcastle and Hunter River Steamer Service

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 27 February 1930 · page 22

The shipping service between Newcastle and Sydney has almost a hundred years of history, and was responsible for the importation of the…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Sw Anley Ashore; Wheat May Be Unloaded

Daily Pictorial · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--With 104,902 bags of wheat on board the motor ship Swanley went aground yesterday in Thevenard…

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Safe From Ice Byrd's Homeward Voyage on the Steamer, City of New York, (at sea)

The Sun · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 13

We are safe from the icefields, and are cruising along the northern edge of the ice pack, amongst the whalers. One of them lies ahead now, and all…

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The "Quetta" Wreck

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 6

TO-DAY marks the 40th anniversary of the wreck of the Quetta a sensational sea-tragedy of the 'nineties. She was bound from Brisbane to London. and carried 282…

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Fenton Threatens to Spill Naval Parley Beans "Who's Afraid?" Gloves Come Off Next Week Wreck Menage Patience Taken As Cowardice London

Evening News · Friday 28 February 1930 · page 5

MR. J. C. FENTON is growing very impatient with the slothfulness of the naval conference and threatens to indulge in some very plain speaking…

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Creepy Cargo Scared Cooks Steamer Is Modern Noah's Ark

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 1 March 1930 · page 3

Fate seems to have decreed that the American steamer Golden Bear shall be a modern Noah's Ark…

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Scullin Government Warns Off the Reds Labor Fights to Escape Wreckers Away with God and Law! A.L.P.'s Sudden Threat to National Government Can Federal Executive Carry Battle Into the White Ants' Nest?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 March 1930 · page 3

HOW sane Australian Labor, led by Prime Minister Scullin and Treasurer E. G. Theodore, with the backing of the powerful A.W.U. is seeking to get out of the toils of Communist wreckers, is interestingly told by "Smith's" Labor Writer. Sydney Trades Hall headquarters of Stalin two years ago…

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Is It Murder? Infant's Body Hauled Ashore at Manly Fish-mauled Face

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1930 · page 2

THE Manly police are seeking the mother of a three-weeks' old baby boy, whose body, was hauled on to the Manly Wharf late yesterday afternoon by Frank Fitzgerald, of Harbord…

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Swings Axe Door Smashed in Crockery Wrecked

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1930 · page 2

An axe was used with disastrous results in a wild struggle in a house in Moorehead-street, Redfern. last night. A doorway was battered in and a…

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Steamer Wreck All Hands Lost? Tokio

Evening News · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 10

THE steamer Fukulu Maru, 1784 tons, was wrecked during a blizzard off Hakodate yesterday, and it is believed that her entire crew of 30 were drowned…

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Cholera Fears at Suva Has Steamer Sutlej Germ Carrier?

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 11

SUVA, Monday.--A suspected case of cholera has occurred aboard the steamer Sutlej, bound for Calcutta, and the passengers…

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Stables Wrecked. During Severe Storm. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 15

The brick stables attached to St. Vincent's Hospital were wrecked during a severe storm last night. Heavy rain was accompanied by hailstones…

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Two Tigers Nearly Loose Cage Wrecked Express Hits Circus

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1930 · page 20

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday. Two tigers were almost let loose among the residents of Ngaruawahia last night when the…

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Cornwall Ashore Assistance on Way London

Evening News · Wednesday 5 March 1930 · page 1

THE Federal S.N. Co's steamer, Cornwall, 10,537 tons, bound from New Plymouth, N.Z., to London, is ashore at Curacao…

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Freighter Wrecked. Tokio, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1930 · page 15

The freighter Fukuju Maru, 1184 tons, was wrecked near Hakodate during a blizzard yesterday. It is believed thnt the entire crew of 32…

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Cornwall Ashore. Not Making Water

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 4

The Federal Steam Navigation Company's steamer Cornwall is ashore at Curacoa. She is en her port bow, but is understood not to be…

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All Ashore Goulburn Polo Team Ponies Are Fit London

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1930 · page 8

Safe and sound, except for minor injuries, 25 polo ponies, accompanied by James, Geoffrey and Phil Ashton, of the Goulburn, N. S. W., team, landed…

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