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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

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The LIBRARY Books Reviewed "Launch," by Major-General Seely. "Superstition," by Stephen McKenna. . "The Mystery Hand" by Ben Bolt. The Work of the Lifeboat Service

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 January 1933 · page 14

IN his little volume entitled "Launch" (Hodder, and Stoughton — Dymock's) Major - General Seely has given a finely graphic description of the great and gallant work performed by the…

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Long Voyage in Ketch. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 17

The 34-feet ketch Senfarer, with a crew of five, all residents of Suva has arrived at Auckland after a voyage of nine days from Suva. The vessel was towed by a coastal steamer for the last 30…

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Miner's Death Caused by Hemorrhage. Hero of Wreck Rescue. Gunning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 13

Allan McLean, 62, was found dead on his mining claim, near Dalton on Tuesday. At an inquest to-day a verdict of death from injuries accidentally received when McLean…

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The Ill-fated Sovereign a Tragic Wreck Engines Failed While Ship Bumped on Bar Hazards of Early Travel

The Sun · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 7

THE annals of the Australian coasts contain records of harrowing disasters in which the sea has taken its terrible toll; many of these have in past days occurred in crossing the bar when river traffic was a hazardous venture indeed…

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Customs Change May Wreck Fed. Govt. Superseded C'wealth Cabinet Ministers And Members Are Seething With Discontent White Is Disciple Of The Bruce Policy Francis To Protest Rushing To Melbn. Free- Trade "Brass-Hat" CANBERRA

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 1

THE appointment of Mr. Thomas Walter White, D.F.C., V.D. (Balaclava, Vic.) as Minister for Customs in succession to Sir Henry Gullett, who resigned through ill-health, seems likely to send the already tottering Alias Government crashing to its political doom…

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Hope Dies for Hinkler Appeal to Air and Radio Bodies Wreckage Search? London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 1

THE hope that the seven days' silence since the hop-off of Hinkler from England for Australia was due to his having…

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A.J.C. Anniversary Meeting. Captivating Captivation Record Wrecker Looks Certain To Click In Challenge "Truth" Sums Up the Field

Truth · Sunday 15 January 1933 · page 3

IT'S Randwick again on Saturday, and all the stars in the sprinting firmament will turn out to do their stuff in the Challenge Stakes. THIS six furlongs affair will bring together a galaxy of talent, but…

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Whirlwind Wrecks Garage Capertee

The Sun · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 7

A whirlwind, which whipped up clouds of dust, roared through the township this afternoon, but the only building it struck was…

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Air Castaways Rescued Taken Off Island by Ketch

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Unexpectedly picked up by a crayfish ketch owned by Mr. R. A. Smith, late on Sunday afternoon, Mr. J. Turner…

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Damaged 'Plane on Island Pilot and Passenger Return on Ketch Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 1

After being stranded for three days on Deal Island, where they made a forced landing when returning from Flinders Island last Friday,…

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Shinai Maru for Sydney? Repairs to Japanese Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 7

BRISBANE, Monday.--When the liner Themistocles was off Point Danger at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday, two vessels were seen well, out to sea…

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Shell Fishermen Wrecked on Barrier Reef. Thursday Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 9

The ketch Taille, owned by Farquhars, Limited, is reported to have been lost on Snake Reef on December 28. The vessel was engaged in obtaining trochus shell, and was anchored…

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Sequel to Wreck of Kanowna Official Naming of Anser Islands

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 10

Latest Admiralty charts reveal an interesting sequel to the wreck of the Kanowna in the Anser Group, Bass Strait, in 1929…

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Long Tow Ends Jap. Steamer Brings Cripple In

The Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 8

One of the longest tows in recent years in Australian waters ended this afternoon with the arrival of the Tateishi Maru with the Shin-ai Maru…

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AIRWOMEN Missing in Kenya. Wrecked 'Plane Seen. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 January 1933 · page 11

Aeroplanes left Nairobi (Kenya) to-day, to search for two young English airwomen, Miss Joan Page and Miss Audrey Sale Barker, who were missing after leaving Moshi…

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Priest Drowned. Father F. Conlon. Lifeboat Capsized. Rescuing Youth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 9

Father Felix Conlon, S.J., a member of the staff of Xavier College, Melbourne, and attached temporarily to the Jesuit Novitiate, Loyola, Greenwich, Lane Cove, was drowned…

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Elaine Wrecked Rebelle Had To Live Ashore, and Is Detained San Pedro (Cal.)

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1933 · page 1

WHEN the Elaine, the 18ft skiff in which Fred Rebelle, who had resided in Sydney for many years,…

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Repairs to Disabled Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1933 · page 16

Workmen repairing the broken propeller shaft of the Japanese steamer Shin-ai Maru, which was recently towed from near New Guinea to Sydney…

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Crack Schooner for Sydney Last of the "Mosquito" Fleet

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 January 1933 · page 1

The last of the Australian "mosquito" fleet the topsail schooner, Huta, which carries explosives for the Nobel Co., of Tasmania, will…

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Big Explosion Wrecks Shop Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Monday 23 January 1933 · page 1

PORTION of a grocery shop, occupied by George Gerrie, in Mudgee Road, Cullen Bullen was wrecked by a terrific explosion about a 3 a.m. yesterday Forty plugs of gelignite were placed under the front verandah…

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