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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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Postcard to 'The Wrecktor' Mention In Church Case

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 6

"THE Wrecktor, St. Barnabas Church, Chatswood" Robert Meredith Pontey, an officer of that church. stated in the Causes Court…

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Crashed Into Wharf Steamer Demodocus at Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. ALTHOUGH she ploughed stern first through heavy hardwood planks and stringers to within about…

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Steamer Hits Wharf. Line Round Propeller. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 15

The steamer Demodocus came into collision —stern first—with the Lee wharf, Newcastle, this morning. Considerable damage was done to the section of the wharf where the vessel…

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Big Cranes To Remove Wreckage

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 3

Two wrecking cranes have been ordered out from Eveleigh to-night to remove from the side of the track, where it was thrown…

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Sick on Island Steamer to Aid of Light-keeper's Wife

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. --The supply steamer Cape York is steaming at full speed from the Tasmanian coast to Deal Island in Bass Strait…

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Sea Bed Gold Search Wrecked Ship N.z. Expedition

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 7

ON a stormy night of May, 1866, the ship General Grant drove into a cleft in the cliffs of Disappointment…

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Girl Over in Launch Wreck

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

CAUGHT in a treacherous bombora off Cloyelly yesterday, the launch Flying U was thrown up on the rocks and wrecked, while the occupants, three men, two boys, and a girl, had escaped from drowning and injury…

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Six Escape Launch Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 1

A PARTY of six had a thrilling experience yesterday, when their 16-foot motor launch was smashed on the…

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Steamer Gale. To be Renamed "Wannon."

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 7

The steamer Gale, which was recenly purchased by the Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Co. of Port Fairy, is to be renamed "Wannon,"…

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Disabled Steamer Battered by Severe Storm. Captain's Narrative

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 13

On the arrival of the British freighter Anglo-Peruvian yesterday with a cargo of timber, the master (Captain J. W. Eno) told of a terrific storm which had battered his…

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CORPSES & Wreckage in Jungle Six Victims Of 'Plane Crash Gov.-gen. Is One Congo Search Tom-tom Signals Brussels

The Sun · Wednesday 20 March 1935 · page 1

SIX corpses and the shattered fragments of the three engined 'plane, in which the Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, M. Edouard Renard, his wife, and two officers left Brazzaville for Tchad on…

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Nearly Gone Beached Steamer ADELAIDE

The Sun · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 18

The Japanese steamer, Portland Maru, which was beached seven miles east of Cape Borda, yesterday afternoon, is now so far submerged that…

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VIC. C.P. May Wreck Nat. Government Censure Motion Likely Decision To Be Made Next Tuesday New Cabinet Melbourne, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 March 1935 · page 7

ALTHOUGH the new Victorian Parliament opened in an atmosphere of uncertainty and turmoil to-day, there was no actual hostile…

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Standing by Wreck Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 March 1935 · page 1

THE tug. Wato is standing by with the Dumosa near the Portland Marty the Japanese steamer which was beached seven miles east of…

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Sick Man Landed From Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 10

The coastal steamer Ma[?]anbar returned to port to land a sick member of the crew about two hours after she had sailed for Manning River in the early hours of Saturday morning…

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A Wreck-ord At Shentral (Hic!)

The Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

Charges of drunkenness arc ordinarily common enough, but to-day at the Central Police Court they were uncommon--in number. Seventy-one…

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British Steamer Looted & Wrecked HONGKONG

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 1

THE British steamer Haiho is reported to have been looted and wrecked by pirates near Shanghai. The Haiho was well off her course…

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Radio Cure Doctor Was Ashore, 2500 Miles Away

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 1

A sick apprentice on the City of Winchester, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, was prescribed for by wireless when 2500 miles off the…

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Body Is Washed Ashore Unknown Young Man

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 1

With the face badly out and battered, the body, of an unknown young man was carried along the shores of Bahnain by the incoming tide late…

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C. P. Moves to Wreck Vic. Govt. to Fight Vested Interests Agreement With Labor Relief Work Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 March 1935 · page 1

BY giving notice through its leader, Mr. Dunstan, of its intention to move to-morrow that the Argyle Nationalist Government no longer possesses the confidence of the House,…

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