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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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Steamer Peiting Bound to Melbourne

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 4

The Yuloslav steamer Dusan Silni, 5654 tons register, which has recently been sold and renamed Pelting, is the former Hansa steamer Rotenfels…

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Another New Steamer. Justitia For Australia

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 4

The steamer Justitla, which left New Orleans about the 4th inst. for Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Fremantle is a…

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Second Break From Gaol Police Guard Over Steamer Darwin

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 6

Robert Stewart, who was serving a sentence for breaking and entering, escaped from Fanny Bay Gaol late yesterday…

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Wrecked Locomotive

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 6

Thirty-two people were killed and more than 70 others injured, many seriously, when the express from Berlin to Frankfurt struck the back of a local train near Gross heringen on Xmas Eve. This picture shows what happened to the express locomotive. (Air Mail…

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Women Wreck Records

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1936 · page 3

Alterations will be required in the record book following the Australian track championship meeting on Saturday at Sydney Sports Ground…

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British Thanks. To Cuxhaven Lifeboat Crew

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 2

The Cuxhaven lifeboat Richard C. Krogmann was able successfully to come to the assistance of the British yacht Blue Shadow,…

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Fast Steamer To Carry Our Beef LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 10

The new 11,000-ton Clan liner, Clan Macarthur, which has four compartments designed for the carriage of chilled beef from Australia,…

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Trawl Find Paringa Wreckage ? MELBOURNE

The Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 12

Portion of a steamer's bridge, found at noon last Friday floating in Bass Strait, and brought to Melbourne to-day by the Red Funnel…

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On Board Pushed Ashore Surf Rescue

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 21

CARRIED out 300 yards in a heavy surf at Manly to-day, a youth, was in danger of drowning until three lifesavers reached…

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Steamer Goes Aground Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 6

The steamer Nordic went aground in the River to-day at Garden's Reach, but was pulled off by two tugs and continued on her voyage…

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"No Wreckers Wanted on Egg Board"

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 8

"TN the ordinary course of events a poll A will be taken towards the end of March for the purpose at electing a producers' representative to fill the vacancy…

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Wreckage Found. Possibly from Paringa. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 6

The Sydney trawler Bar-ea-mul brought to Melbourne to-day wreckage which had been part of the upper structure of a ship's bridge. It is almost certain that the wreckage…

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From Wreckage Girl Had Pliers DORRIGO

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 10

Leaving the Armidale-Dorrlgo road, about five miles from Dorrigo a sedan car rolled over about 15 times down a slope and crashed, a wreck,…

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Unidentified Wreckage MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 21

The Director of Navigation (Captain J. K. Davis) said to-day that it was impossible to identify the wreckage found by the Sydney…

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Wreckage Found by Trawler Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 6

Several pieces of wreckage were found floating on the sea by the crew of the trawler Bareamul when she was working Bass Strait, in the…

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Paringa Wreckage Picked Up in Bass Strait

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1936 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Wreckage believed to be from the missing steamer Paringa, which disappeared with all hands about…

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Storm Wrecks Cottage Liverpool's Second Battering

The Biz · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 7

Following the highest temperature for 12 months, a terrific gale swept Sydney and suburbs and other parts of the State on Thursday afternoon…

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Smashed Lifeboat Tells Fate of Paringa

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The badly-battered half of one side of a lifeboat, bearing the name Paringa, was found…

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Alone in Surf Swimmer in Panic, Brought Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 9

One of two men surfing, about 75 yards from the beach at Maroubra yesterday, became panic-stricken when his companion caught a…

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To Boats Steamer Ablaze Crew Sought Tokio

The Sun · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 5

THE British cargo steamer, Forthbridge (5140 tons), is on fire and out of control off the north coast of Japan…

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