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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935

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A Foundered Horse

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 28 March 1935 · page 10

To W.F.—Treatment, of a foundered horse depends upon the direct. If the horse not at the wheat, any a fortnight ago and shown no sign of improvement. It is unlikely that even…

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Lifeboat Picked Up. Theory Advanced

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 29 March 1935 · page 5

A theory has been advanced concerning the lifeboat which was picked up in the South Atlantic by the Greek steamer Kaloudo…

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Fear Great Cyclone Tragedy: Three Wrecks 21 Luggers Still Missing 20 Drown, and No Report of 170 Steamer Finding Death In Seas Of North

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 March 1935 · page 1

BROOME, Friday.--Reports of the finding of the wreckage of three luggers indicate the…

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Dogged Paddington Plays for Premiership Drawn Game Object New Ball May Wreck Team's Hopes Of Honor Chances of Tie

The Sun · Sunday 31 March 1935 · page 44

Evidently with the object in view of making certain of the 1934-35 premiership, which is already within its grasp, Paddington played for a draw…

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Sharks Seen Wrecked Luggers PERTH

The Sun · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 9

A report from Broome states that floating wreckage found in the Lacepede Channel is possibly the remains of the nine luggers still unaccounted…

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The Tariff Wreckers

The Labor Daily · Monday 1 April 1935 · page 4

THE full extent of the betrayal of Australia's secondary industries by the Lyons-Page Government, which has emasculated all the effective protection provisions of former tariff schedules, was…

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Abandoned Steamer. Inquiry at Adelaide

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 5

At the inquiry into the stranding of the Japanese steamer Port-land Maru near Cape Torrens on March 20, it was revealed that…

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Wreckage of Nine Luggers, Is Belief Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 April 1935 · page 1

WRECKAGE of luggers was sighted to-day in the Lacepede Channel, and this is thought to be the remains of…

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Father's Appeal. Access to Child Revoked. Frenchman's Voyage on Ketch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 9

Several legal questions which, Mr. Justice Maxwell said, were of great importance and created considerable difficulty because they were not covered by authority, were a[?]gued…

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Abandoned Steamer. Inquiry at Adelaide

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 1

At the inquiry into the stranding of the Japanese steamer Portland Maru near Cape Torrens on March 20, it was revealed that…

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Small Scow Wrecked

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 4

When entering the Wanganui River, South Island, New Zealand, on Saturday the auxiliary scow Moa stranded at the entrance. She was battered by…

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Wrecked Luggers. Survivors in Darwin. Stories of Rescue. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 14

Stories of the rescue of Japanese and Malay crews from two disabled pearling luggers off the coast of Broome were told by passengers of the Western Australian motorship Koolinda,…

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In a Sea Strewn with Wreckage Koolinda's Story of Tragedy How 18 Survivors Were Saved Fierce Storm Darwin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 April 1935 · page 1

AFTER standing, well out to sea in a severe storm, the steamer Koolinda, on her way to Danwin, sailed for two days through a sea…

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Tour Yacht Mystery LIFEBOAT Sea Find Rich Count Auckland

The Sun · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 27

DISCOVERY by the Aorangi 500 miles north from Auckland of a battered life boat bearing the name…

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Big P.&o. Steamer for Aust

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 9

WHAT will be the largest passenenger steamer which has yet visited Australian shores will be launched to-day by the…

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Overboard in Gale Diver's Tale of Wreck: Marooned a Week

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 7

BROOME, Wednesday.--Nine disabled pearling luggers have reached Broome since yesterday, but 12 boats are still…

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Adrift at Sea. Damaged Lifeboat. Belonging to French Yacht. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 13

A wireless message was received from the Aorangi last night, that yesterday, when about 500 miles north of Auckland, in a direct line with Suva, she passed an empty, open…

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Lifeboat From Luxury Yacht Picked Up by Aorangi Wellington (N.z.). Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 9

A wireless message has been received from the master of the liner Aorangi stating that a lifeboat badly damaged had been discovered 500…

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Four-masted Schooner Formerly in Australian Trade to Be Recommissioned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 12

Following years of idleness at San Francisco, the four-masted schooner Lottie Bennett, formerly a romantic unit of the Burns, Philp fleet, has again been recommissioned for…

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Shattered Idyll Of New Guinea Cannibal Jungle Hard Won Gold Man and Wife's Fortunes Wrecked In Parting Love Affair on Ship

Truth · Sunday 7 April 1935 · page 13

GOLDEN FORTUNE came to Charles Booth and his wife, Doris Regina Booth, ten years ago in the wild heart of New Guinea. AND gold, won from the Morobe wilderness, while it brought…

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