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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

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Why Revive Horror? Titanic Wreck As Radio Drama London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1932 · page 1

"The whole thing should be forgotten. There is no excuse for reminding the survivors of the horrors which will certainly…

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Ketch Ashore

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1932 · page 2

The small coasting ketch Edriss, owned by the Lyon Trading Co., Bond-street, city, went ashore yesterday, on a sand-spit called…

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The Schoolboy Detective Rob Pearce's Great Discovery on the Wreck

The Sun · Sunday 28 February 1932 · page 2

OF all the stories connected with the wreck of the Dorothy, the one in which Rob Pearce of Granges College figured was the most…

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Ketch Ashore. Refloating Attempt Fails. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 9

Dragging her anchor before a stiff northeasterly on Friday evening, the ketch Edriss, owned by the Lyons Trading Co., of Sydney, ran ashore on Narrow Gut, near Point…

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Can Walk Ashore Crew of Grounded Ketch Edriss

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 5

High and dry on Narrow Gut, a sandy spit near Port Stephens, the coasting ketch Edriss, which went ashore on Friday night, is over ten…

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Dramatic Sea Rescue at Woy Woy Launch in Peril in Heavy Sea Lifeboat Manned By Scratch Crew Blazing Shirt

The Labor Daily · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 5

A dramatic sea rescue was effected at dusk on Saturday night, when two men, their small disabled launch in imminent…

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Wrecking the Reds Draft of Federal Bill This Week a Little List

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 February 1932 · page 6

CANBERRA, Sunday.--The Federal Government's measures for dealing with the Communist menace, in…

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Ketch Still on Sandspit

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--Captain Sutherland and the crew of four of the Sydney ketch Edris worked all last night in an attempt to get her…

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Ketch in Trouble. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 5

The auxiliary ketch Balus, bound for New Guinea, had engine trouble outside Newcastle Heads last evening, and was towed into port by the pilot steamer Birubi…

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Gee Gossip and Guffaws a Crucial Moment—Atta Boy Billy—Son of Pantheon—Prismatic Painful—King High—O.K. Chief—Isn't Ancient. Prismatic Wrecked

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 1 March 1932 · page 9

JUST as well Frank McGrath was away at Flemington on Saturday. Had he been at Randwick he would have hidden his face in shame…

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Ferry Steamer Damages Shark-proof Enclosure

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 9

The Manly steamer Curl Curl, when berthing at Manly, crashed into the new bathing enclosure and tore down part of the netting…

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MORE T.B. Treachery Over Arbitration Bill Aim To Wreck Preference Same Old Tactics to Defeat Coates Group in True Colors Bill Is Again Mauled Close Vote

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 5

THERE was a final burst of T.B. treachery to wreck the vital principle of preference to unionists in the Arbitration Bill before…

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Phil, Radio Dog, Is Shipwrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 5

No more will the light of photo-electric intelligence gleam from his baleful eye, no more will he bark with klaxon raucousness…

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"All Visitors Ashore!"

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 6

After bidding their friends good-bye as the Mooltan sails away…

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Singapore to Darwin in Ketch. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 10

Messrs. Mcpherson and Malley arrived at Darwin yesterday in their 20-ton ketch Jewa Senyi from Penang. They left Singapore on December 19. They were beating about…

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New P. and O. Steamer Strathaird

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 7

At the luncheon which followed the inspection of the new 22,500 ton electric steamer Strathaird, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, Deputy Chairman of the P. and…

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Finnish Steamer. Crew Refuses Work. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 9

Members of the crew of the Finnish cargo steamer Olovsborg, which is laden with wheat for Shanghai, refused to leave Williamstown yesterday, unless they received double wages…

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"Wreck Govt." Rail Service Assn. and Arbitration Bill

The Sun · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 15

"The whole principle of the Arbitration Bill, now before the Upper House, is a direct negation of the principle of democracy," said the…

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Stayed to View the Wreck But the Thief Didn't Cycle Stolen

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 6

So badly smashed was a car which cannoned off another motor and crashed into a steel electric light standard at George…

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Wrecked Plane in N.z

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 1

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), .Wednesday.--When a Moth aeroplane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Nevill, landed heavily at the Mangere aerodrome…

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