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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1931

822 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 42

Steamer Ashore On Western Australian Coast. Rescue Ship Aground. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 13

Early this morning a wireless message was received at Fremantle that the Japanese steamer Shunsei Maru had run ashore off Cape Cloates, and was seeking assistance…

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S.O.S. Call Is Answered Japanese Steamer Ashore in W.A.

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7

The Japanese Steamer Shunsei Maru is ashore at Point Cloates, on the West Australian coast. The Chofuku Maru has answered her…

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Shunsei Maru Ashore Off Point Cloates (W.a.) Chofuku Maru Standing By

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 4

Advices received from our W.A. correspondent state that the Japanese steamer Shunsei Maru, which left Milke on January 22 for Fremantle,…

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Stranded But No Lives Lost Jap Steamer on Reef

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7

Outward bound from Western Australian ports with wheat fro Milke, the Japanese steamer Shunsel Maru grounded on a roof off Point Cloats…

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Rescue Ship Ashore Two on Reef on W.A. Coast One Sinking Perth

Evening News · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3

THE Japanese steamer Chofuku Marn was standard on a reef, 13 miles from Point [?] whaling station, last night, with…

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Previous Floods. In Brisbane. Gunboat in the Gardens. Wreck of Victoria Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 17

The most destructive floods recorded in the Brisbane River occurred some 40 yeais ago, in the eighties and nineties. There is an extensive watershed extending from Enoggera up to…

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Wild Wrestler Amok Ring Wrecked Rockhampton

The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 7

Kicking, punching and biting predominated last night at the roughest wrestling match the town has ever witnessed. The…

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Stepping Ashore

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 1

Landing from the St, Lucia ferry--or, at least they called it "landing"--into the Brisbane flood…

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Any Offers? Sailing Atlantic 41-Ton Ketch London

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 4

If Captain E. R. Goss sails for Vancouver on his 41-ton ketch Hearts of Oak, he wants to sail, and not to drive an auxiliary engine. The ketch…

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Youth Thought to Be Drowned Returns Home Missed From Warship Had Swum Ashore Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1931 · page 2

A remarkable story is told in Invercargill of the return to life of a youth, believed to have been lost overboard from the cruiser…

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Japanese Steamers Ashore. Chofuku Maru Probably a Total Wreck

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 4

ON Saturday, the startling information was received that the Japanese steamer Chofuku Maru, which had gone to the…

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Two Drown Botany Bay Tragedy Mate's Heroism Ketch Caught in Gale

The Sun · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 7

Sidney Walker, aged 30, of Russell-avenue, Sans Souci, and--Guest, aged 55, also of Sans Souci, were drowned in Botany…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & WEATHER Looking Back Hidden Treasure and a Wreck Early Mystery of West Australian Coast

Daily Pictorial · Monday 9 February 1931 · page 9

The discovery of a human skeleton and ancient coins at the mouth of the Moore River, 50 miles north of Perth, recalls one of the earliest…

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New Zealand's Days of AGONY and WRECK

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 9

(AT left).--WHERE a massive six-story brick building once stood.-- All that is left of the Grand Hotel, the principal hotel of Hastings. (Below).--RUINS OF THE NURSES' HOME at the Napier general hospital in which nurses, a sleep after night duty were crushed to death when the building crashed…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & WEATHER Looking Back Lost in Dense Haze Wotonga Wrecked at Tacking Point

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 9

Delay to the steamer Alexandria indirectly led to the wreck of the A.S.N. steamer Wotonga, on January 2, 1882…

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Ketch Crew's Pleasure Trip to Papua

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 7

Awaiting a favorable breeze to set out on a pleasure voyage to Papua, the 13-ton ketch Sea Lark is at anchor in the harbor…

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Chofuku Maru Probably a Total Wreck. Japanese Steamers Ashore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 5

ON Saturday, the startling information was received that the Japanese steamer Chofuku Maru, which had gone to the…

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Steamer Sinks. 49 Passengers Missing. TOKIO, Feb. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 13

The French steamer Porthos, on leaving Kobe last night, homeward bound, collided in a snowstorm with the Klkusul. Maru, bound for Shanghai…

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New German Steamer. Built for the North Pacific Trade

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 9

The new North German Lloyd freighter Este, which arrived at New York on December 22 on hor maiden, trip from Bremen en route to the…

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Baby's Horror of 'Quake Even Steamer Makes Him Shudder

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 5

Stark horror was indelibly implanted in the baby mind of Paul Stacey (3½) by the Napier earth- quake in which he was trapped…

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