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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1932

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How the G.s.b. Was Done to Death Report Tells of Ugly Work by Wreckers Record Balances and Profits Could Not Stem Tide Story of Rush Lyons' Loan at High Interest Helped the Slump

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 March 1932 · page 10

HOW the G.S.B. was strangled--showing t part played by anti-Lang rumors--is related in the annual report of the…

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White Wings Spread Serene for Bridge Harbor Gala Slick Tassy Schooner Takes Out Rigged for Day And Led All the Way Did Windward

Truth · Sunday 20 March 1932 · page 8

THE ex-Tasmanian schooner, Windward, won the All Yachts Interstate Handicap at the Bridge Regatta. The shorter…

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Cultivated Ivy-Caught! Rural Romeo Wrecked Roots' Romance Uncle Herbie's Nocturnal Canoodling Down By Backyard Fence

Truth · Sunday 20 March 1932 · page 14

WHAT a gay lad to be sure was Uncle Herbie Roots, of Jamiesontown! THAT the heart of a sheik can beat in the rural air of such a place as Jamesontown as well as on the desert, was proved before…

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Steamer Rhymney in Port

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 11

The steamer Rhvmney. which arrived from Shanghal yesterday morning, was in the thick of the fighting around that city while unloading Australian wheat…

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Brutal Assault On Aged Couple Wild Orgy at Party Callous Attack on Guests Home Wrecked

The Sun · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 9

FIVE drink-crazed Camperdown gangsters, armed with bottles, shortly before midnight burst their way…

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Seven Men Trapped In Wrecked Plane TIMMINS (Ontario)

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 March 1932 · page 1

SEVEN men trapped in the cabin of a wrecked aeroplane were found near here to-day. All were injured. They had had nothing to eat for…

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Fatality Feared. Motor Boat Washed Ashore. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1932 · page 11

The motor boat in which Messrs. S. R. Justice, 40, and Alfred James Wilson, 26, left Beachport to go fishing on Friday morning has been washed up on the beach in a bottered…

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Wrecked Northern Firth. Milton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 March 1932 · page 5

Souvenir hunters are busy collecting wreckage from the stranded steamer Northern Firth. Quantities of general merchandise are being cast up on the beach in good condition, and…

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Capt.'s Ticket Suspended Steamer Minmi Mishap

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 5

While on a run from Hexham to Sydney on February 23 last, the steamer Minmi struck a reef throe times off Long Reef point…

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The Island of Devils Human Wreckage in the Swamps of Horror

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 23 March 1932 · page 19

I SUDDENLY heard a scream that sent a chill down my spine. "It was just at the crack…

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Ketch Abandoned

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday--Failure to refloat the ketch Edris last night resulted in her abandonment at Narrow Gut, Port Stephens, to-day…

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Stranded Ketch Edris Is Abandoned Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 5

AFTER an unsuccessful attempt to refloat the Sydney-owned ketch Edris. last night, it has been decided…

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Bending Science to the Show Game Keen Men of Business Across The World By 'Plane And Steamer Modern Way

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 4

ARMED with the powerful appurtenances of scientific progress; there is a brotherhood of men, its members scattered the world over, whose sole aim it is to bring to the centralised points of civilisation all that is weird and wonderful, bizarre and incongruous, all that makes…

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Castaways' Privations Fearful Sufferings Wreck of the Invercauld

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1932 · page 11

The beautiful full-rigged ship Invercauld left London on January 10, 1864, and made a flue passage to Melbourne in 85 days. After having remained at…

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Popular Steamer Arrives

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 March 1932 · page 7

SISTER-SHIP to the popular Strathnaver, the new P. and O. liner Strathaird arrived here yesterday morning on her maiden voyage…

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Rescue in Mid-atlantic. Plight of Crew of Derelict Schooner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1932 · page 12

The story of the heroic rescue of the captain and crew of the schooner Ria, of Newfoundland, in mid-Atlantic, was revealed at Southampton, when the Elders and Fyffes steamer…

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Miner Drowned at Thirroul Rescuers are Forced To Swim Ashore

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 March 1932 · page 1

SWIMMING outside the safety zone at Thirroul yesterday. George Williams, 48, miner, of Cullen Bullen,…

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U.S.A. DEFICIT. Revenue Bill Practically Wrecked. Sales Tax Rejected. Washington, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1932 · page 11

The proposed sales tax was struck out of the Revenue Bill by the House of Representatives to-day. The defeat of the levy by an insurgent…

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Seven Men Lost Big Yacht Wrecked Lifeboat Crew Missing Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 27 March 1932 · page 1

Four men are believed to have perished and fears are felt for the safety of three others caught in the fierce gale that lashed St…

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Young Wreckers

The Sun · Sunday 27 March 1932 · page 3

Youthful Spanish revolutionaries wreaking their fury upon a Spanish convent…

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