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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1930

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28 Injured in Terrific Traffic Collision at Pyrmont Two Crowded Trams in Violent Smash Thud of Resounding Impact Heard a Mile Away Fainting Women Lifted From Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1930 · page 3

Twenty-eight passengers were hurt, some seriously in a terrific tram collision at White Bay, Pyrmont, last night. With a crash that could be heard a mile away…

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Ketch Wyalong. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 15

The auxiliary ketch Wyalong, which put into the Clarence on Saturday while on a voyage from Sydney to Raboul. was taken to Ashby dock today for the cleaning of the hull. It is expected…

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85 M.P.H. Q'land Cyclone Lugger Wreck Fish Launch Missing. Cairns

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 9

THE steamer Kallatina arrived in Cairns last night from the Gulf of Carpentaria, having…

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At Pago Pago Men, Woman, Children Aboard Wreck Fears Allayed N.Z. Move to Detain Craft Auckland

Evening News · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 10

A CABLE has been received at Auckland, stating that the Auckland launch, Marere, which disappeared six weeks ago, had been located at Pago Pago, Samoa, with two men, one woman and four children on board…

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Lugger's Crew SURVlVE Wreck Cairns

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 January 1930 · page 4

Wrecked on Sudbury Reef 35 miles from Cairns at 4 a.m. on Saturday, the crew of a Japanese lugger, in tour small dinghies after battling with a…

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Steamer Mariston. Cargo to Be Lightered

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

Private advice received in Sydney in connection with the steamer Mariston, which went ashore 270 miles west of Sourabaya, states that two…

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'Plane Wreck — 5000 Miles in River Boat

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 14

NEW BRIDGE OVER YARRA — The new bridge over the Yarra at Spencer-street, Melbourne, is nearing completion COMFORTS OF NEW CLUB HOUSE—The interiors of the new University Club House in Philip-street are comfortably and efficiently…

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Air Disaster. Wrecked 'Plane Salvaged. No Trace of Bodies. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

A splintered mass of wood, smashed beyond repair, and held together by the bracing wires, the wrecked flying boat Widgeon II., which plunged into Port Phillip Bay on Monday…

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Manuka Wreck. Westerly Current Blamed. Captain's Story. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 15

Captain Ross Clark, master of the Manuka, stated at the inquiry at Dunedin to-day that the loss of the liner was due to an abnormal set from east to west. The current, he…

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Not Wrecked, But Gone to Samoa N.Z. Mystery Launch

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1930 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--The 38ft. launch Marere, which disappeared from Auckland Harbor six weeks ago, has reached Samoa, with two men,…

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Paintings Washed Ashore Wreck of Manuka Still Many Missing

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 6

MR. E. MURRAY FULLER, who lost many valuable paintings in the wreck of the Manuka off the Otago (N.Z.) coast and who has been…

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Accident on Steamer

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

Frank Riley, of Adolphus-street, Balmain, was working on the French steamer Commissaire Ramel at No. 4 Wharf, Circular Quay, to-day, when he slipped…

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Perilous Desert Trek to Save Wrecked Shipmates Two Killed in Smashes Melb. Fatalities Cycle in Flames. Melbourne

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

TWO victims of motor smashes, one of which occurred yesterday and the other last night, died…

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Gordon's Country. Land of Wrecks and Romance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 10

Just three-quarters of a century ago, deputation of citizens of the south-east of South Australia asked Adam Lindsay Gordon to stand for Parliament as representative of…

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Heads Smashed One Dies After Collision Blazing Wreckage Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 15

Roland Kirk, aged 26, of Yarra-street, Abbotsford, who was among the seven people injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car on the…

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Islanders' Fine Rescue Wreck of Norwich City Shark-infested Waters Auckland

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

MAGNIFICENT rescue work carried out by a party of Ellis Islanders in connection with the wreck of the Norwich City in the Phoenix…

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Figure On Wreckage After Sensational 'Plane Crash Man Waved Frantically, Then Disappeared Was It Ewera?-- Point Cook Pilot Tried to Plunge Near Scene Launch Signals to 'Plane Mistaken Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 3

It was learnt to-day that a Point Cook pilot who was circling in a Moth 'plane over the scene of the Widgeon II. crash in Port Phillip Bay more than half-an-hour afterwards saw a man floating…

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Wreck of Steamer. On Barren Coast. Men's Arduous Tramp. Capetown, Jan. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 13

After great hardships, owing to lack of food and water, the engineer and two seamen of the steamer Limpopo, which was wrecked at Sylvia Hill, 90 miles north of Luderitz, in…

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Tasmanian Complaint. Service to Mainland. Quality of Steamer's Coal. Burnie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 12

During recent weeks the steamer service between Melbourne and the north-west coast of Tasmania has been far from satisfactory. On several occasions the Loongana has been…

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Doesn't Like His Name on Steamer German General Protests BERLIN

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

General von Ludendorff complained to the Hamburg-Amerika Line regarding the use of his name on the steamer Ludendorff…

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