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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933

620 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 31

A Wreck

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 7

Several people were injured and taken to hospital as the result of this car smash on the main Western-road, Lawson, at the week-end…

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A Lord in a Lifeboat Our Earliest Earl of Pembroke Visitor's Line

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1933 · page 6

Although the Earldom of Pembroke was created in 1553, only one of that long line of English nobility has previously visited…

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Blazing Craft Menaced Boats in the Harbor Speed Launch Burned to a Charred Wreck an Explosion Mechanic Has Narrow Escape From Death

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 5

WHEN the large speed launch Fijair blew up and caught fire in Careening Cove, Port Jackson, on Saturday afternoon,…

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Fruit Stall Wrecked in Busy City Thoroughfare

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 14

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN A LORRY CRASHED INTO A FRUIT STALL IN PITT-STREET…

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Small Tug Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 13

The small tug Terranora ran ashore on the breakwater at the entrance to the Tweed River yesterday morning, while taking soundings. The Terranora is owned by…

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Historic Steamer. Model of Ophir for Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 8

A model of the former Orient liner Ophir, which has been on exhibition for some years in Australia House, London, is being shipped by the Commonwealth Government to…

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Steamer on Fire Off Fremantle Bunkers Are Alight Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 5

Limping towards Fremantle with a damaged propellor. the steamer Helmspey now has fire in her coal bunkers…

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Tug Terranora Wrecked on Tweed Bar. Crew Saved. Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 9

The tug Terranora is ashore, a total wreck, on the north breakwater, just inside the crossing at Tweed Heads. While engaged in the work of sounding the bar this morning…

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Left £400 Behind Cracksmen Wreck P.o. Safe Haul of £20

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 1

Safeblowers who wrecked the strong-room, door of the George Street West Post Office early last night dashed…

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Strongroom Wrecked by Cracksmen

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 1

THE PICTURE SHOWS the terrific force of explosives used by cracksmen, who last night blew open the strongroom of the George Street West post office (Inset.) How the safeblowers entered--by cutting a hole in a panel and turning a lock…

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Steamer Held Up. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 10

Because of a dispute affecting the engagement of a crew for the interstate cargo steamer Mernoo, the Melbourne Steamship Company decided to-day that the vessel should…

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Steamer Lutana Delayed. Crew Refuses Dairy Butter. LAUNCESTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 10

The Holyman line cargo steamer Lutana, which was to have left Launceston last night for Adelaide, was held up until this afternoon, because the crew refused to eat dairy butter…

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Tug Terranora Wrecked at Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 12

The vessel, which went aground on the bar, is expected to become a total loss…

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Terranora Wreck for Auction

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1933 · page 17

The tug Terranora which was wrecked on the Tweed River bar on Wednesday, will be sold as she lies, at an auction at noon on Monday, at the rooms of Fraser. Uther. and Co, Underwood-street…

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Ten Million Pounds Leaves the Commonwealth! Barbara Hutton; a Real Count, and Don't-counts Love Affair On Neutral Territory Exciting Chase Round the World to watch a Dutch steamer go out, carrying Ten Millions Sterling, all packed into one dainty girlish form:--What a sight for dead-broke Australians and hungry Taxing officers!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 February 1933 · page 3

GLORIOUS Sydney sunshine; gaily colored streamers fluttering in the warm breeze; a cheeky newsboy whistling "I found a million-dollar baby in a five and ten cents. store;" and last, but not least, a young American, with sleeky black hair, brushed right back, attired in a light grey suit, and standing forlornly on the edge of the wharf, now…

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Ocean Adventure. Rebell's Boat Wrecked. Harsh Treatment in U.S.A. SUVA, Feb. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1933 · page 9

Mr. Fred Rebell, who has accomplished the crossing of the Pacific in a small 16 feet half-decked sailing boat, writing from Wilmington, under date January 28, to Mr. W. McCreadie,…

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Man's Agony on Roadside Lay for Hour Under Wrecked Cycle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1933 · page 7

PINNED under his wrecked motor cycle beside Kenyon's Road, Smithfield, on Saturday night. Leslie Sconce (24), Bridge…

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Turkish Students Wreck Company's Offices. LONDON. Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1933 · page 9

Because the Italian director of the Sleeping Car Company of Constantinople ordered clerks to speak French instead of Turkish, 500 students mobbed the company's offices. They…

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Wreck of Terranora Sold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1933 · page 13

The hull of the tug Terranora, which was wrecked on the Tweed River bar on Wednesday last, was sold at auction yesterday by Fraser, Uther, and Co., for £14/10/. The purchaser was Mr. Alfred…

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The Tug Terranora Wrecked at Tweed River

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 1 March 1933 · page 19

The Tweed River subsidised tugboat Terranora on February 22 struck on a sandspit inside the mouth of the Tweed River and became a total wreck…

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