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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

620 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 31

Search Abandoned. Missing Collier Christina Fraser. Ships Sight Wreckage. Remarkable Report of Rockets Seen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 9

R. W. Miller and Co., Ltd., owners of the collier Christina Fraser, which is now more than a week overdue on the voyage from Bulli to Geelong, have decided to abandon the search. Air-Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who made an extensive…

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Wreckage Sighted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 9

At 7.30 o'clock yesterday morning the master of the interstate passenger motorship Westralia (Captain Darroch) reported by wireless that is vessel, westward bound to Fremantle, had…

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Wreckage Seen May Have Been Deck Fittings MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 8

Though there was nothing in the structure of the wreckage seen floating in the sea off Gabo Island yesterday by members of the crew…

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Missing Collier. Hope Almost Gone. Wreckage Not Identified

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 9

No part of the wreckage sighted off the Victorian coast by passing vessels has so far been definitely connected with the missing collier Christina Fraser…

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Wrecked Before Starting Search

The Sun · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 9

Hart Aircraft Company's monoplane wrecked through striking a tree while taking off at Sale (Vic.) to search for wreckage thought to belong to Christina Fraser…

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Dense Fog Delays Steamer Marama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 15

After being delayed for 17 hours by a dense fog at Auckland, the Union line steamer Marama reached Sydney yesterday afternoon only seven hours behind scheduled time…

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Steamer Karepo Runs Aground Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 6

While proceeding from her berth at the Basin to the Steel Works under her own power. the stern of the Union Co.'s…

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WRECKAGE Recovered from Sea. May Be From Missing Collier. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 11

A piece of a ship's hatch cover, which may be part of the missing collier christina Fraser, was discovered on the beach on Wingan Inlet by Mr. J. C. David, who…

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Theatre Idol Arrives As Purser On Cargo Steamer MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 30

Not with a dazzling entourage of elaborately uniformed officers from the Marsovian Embassy, but with the happy-go-lucky officers of the…

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Wrecked in Fog French Steamer Lost Off African Coast PARIS

The Sun · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 3

The French steamer Nicolas Paquet (10,000 tons) struck a rock off Cape Spartel, near Tangier, during a sudden fog last night, and sank…

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Wreck in Kingsgate Bay, Isle of Thanet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 9

Under such circumstances the wreckers of old and the dwellers by the coast accumulated considerable stores…

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Birds of Prey. Wreckers and Water Thieves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 9

I shall have share in this most happy wreck.— Shakespeare. Like lotteries and smuggled goods, wrecks and wreckage have always had an irresistible…

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Peggy Paid Own Way To Victory Wreck of Cochet at Paris London, June 8

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 6

Twenty-year-old Peggy Scriven, ranked No. 10 in England, is to-day No. 1 in France, and for the first time an English girl has…

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R.M.Y.C. Ball Yachtsmen's Gay Night Ashore Striking Decorations at R.M.Y.C. BALL

The Sun · Sunday 9 July 1933 · page 42

Ingenious table decorations, always a feature of any function arranged by the Royal Motor Yacht Club, surpassed anything ever seen in a Sydney ballroom, for the members' dance at the Blaxland Galleries last night…

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Didn't Know Romeo Had a Wife! Private D.'s Upset Bushland Idyll Lonely Lane Cove Their Location Home Life, Happiness Wrecked On Rock Of Divorce

Truth · Sunday 9 July 1933 · page 18

WHAT heart-rocking attraction was it that saw Harold Edgar Roberts, who had changed from a model husband a couple of years before, go in pursuit of an unconventional love affair where the bush slept strangely…

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Engine Wrecked. London

Truth · Sunday 9 July 1933 · page 12

According to advices from Moscow, when Mattern the American aviator, came down in a forced landing, the engine of his plane…

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Decision of U.S.A. On Stabilisation Will Not Wreck World Economy

The Sun · Sunday 9 July 1933 · page 46

Once again U.S.A. has thrown a spanner into the works of world economy by rejecting proposals for the temporary stabilisation of currency From an insular American viewpoint the decision is neither surprising nor unjustifiable. From a world viewpoint it is not a catastrophe although it may delay general world recovery while the nations adjust themselves to the shock…

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Shipwreck

The Sun · Sunday 9 July 1933 · page 5

Paris, Saturday. -- The French steamer Nicolas Paquet (10,000 tons), struck a rock off Cape Spartel, near Tangier, during a sudden fog on…

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Wrestlers Come Ashore Bonds Accepted, But Back Next Month

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 July 1933 · page 5

The shipping company having furnished bonds of £100 in each case, the American wrestlers, Too Gotch and Duke Richins, stepped ashore…

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Splinters Carriage Wreck Hurled Clear Passengers Tell

The Sun · Tuesday 11 July 1933 · page 1

"I HAD a miraculous escape," said Mr. P. McIntosh, an insurance inspector, of Birriga-road. Bellevue Hill, who was…

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