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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1936

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Bodies in Burnt 'Plane Searchers Find Wreckage At Dawn Shreds of Wings in Tree-tops One Passenger Thrown Out As 'Plane Hit Branches Crash in Dense Scrub

The Sun · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 1

DAWN to-day revealed the full horror of the crash of the big Gannet monoplane in dense scrub near Cordeaux Dam last night. The four passengers and pilot were killed, and all but one incinerated, FOR about 40 feet from where the burnt wreckage was found the…

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Plane Crashes Into Lonely Bush Grave Fears for Passengers Wreckage In Flames Searchers Out

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 February 1936 · page 1

WITH four passengers--one of them an injured man--and the pilot aboard, the W.A.S.P. Airlines' Gannet monoplane crashed into rugged country and burst in flames, setting…

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100th Anniversary Regatta. Steamer Arrangements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 15

The steamer Baragoola will act as the flagship for the 100th anniversary regatta on Sydney Harbour to-morrow. It will be moored off Cremorne Point at 11 a.m., and from 1.30 p.m. a ferry…

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Gannet 'Plane Crash. Wreckage in Bush Found After Long Search Machine Torn to Pieces by Trees. Theories Concerning Cause

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 11

A heap of burnt wreckage and incinerated bodies, discovered shortly after dawn yesterday, revealed that, as feared on Wednesday night, five persons were killed when the Gannet 'plane crashed in rugged, denselywooded country about four miles from the settlement at Cordeaux Dam…

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Wrecked Sedan

The Labor Daily · Friday 21 February 1936 · page 7

The front seat of the sedan car which figured in a fatal crash at French's Forest yesterday morning. The engine of the car can be seen…

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Towed to Port. by Pilot Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1936 · page 18

A disabled launch with two occupants was towed into the harbour last night by the pilot steamer. Captain Cook after having been picked up dangerously near the rocks at Rosa…

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Clarence Street Has the Jitters Office Nerves Wrecked By Noise 10.30 a.m.: --

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 February 1936 · page 7

"Get to blazes out of this office! I'm sick of the sight of your silly face! You're fired, do you hear, FIRED!" "No, I HAVEN'T finished that letter…

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Most Shocking Case of Repat. Callousness Pitiable War-wreck Refused Pension Sympathetic Intervention Urgently Needed

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 February 1936 · page 10

SHAKING and twitching, without even a second's relief from his nerve-wracking affliction, Digger Edward Davis, of North Melbourne, is a pitiable rebuke to the callous administration of the Repat. Department. Scores…

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City Lure Wrecks Grazier's Home Wife Who Grew Tired Of Country Life Ordered to Return

Truth · Sunday 23 February 1936 · page 19

THE city's bright lights held forth their tantalising lure. THE scent of wattles and gums, the memories of wide fields and a white homestead could not hold the woman against her desire for the social whirl of city…

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Diphtheria Patient on Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1936 · page 11

As the steamer Ulysses was nearing Sydney yesteiday a radiogram was sent stating that a member of the crew, a 19-year-old call-boy had developed diphtheria. Arrangements were…

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Government Vessel Wrecked. Suva

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1936 · page 17

The Governmenl motor vessel Deret, which san[?] in a hurricane near an island of the Lau group, Fiji, recently was wrecked when another hurricane interrupted salvage…

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Northern Solomons' Mission. Appeal for New Schooner

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 February 1936 · page 13

The following donations towards the fund to replace the lost mission boat were received during last week: £ s d…

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Brutal Assault On Board Steamer. Seaman Attacked in Bunk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

A mysterious and brutal assault was made on Wednesday night on a seaman, Fred Coates, of Artarmon, as he was lying in his bunk on board the coastal steamer Pelaw…

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Ashore, But Towed Off

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.--About 10 o'clock to-night the Montoro, outward bound to New Guinea, went ashore in Bulimba Reach, but was towed off…

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More Pages from my Notebook of Crime . Man Who Stole a Steamer. Crime Without Parallel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 10

STEALING a steamer[?] In point of the magnitude of its conception, few, if any, offences equal the amazing exploits of…

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Explosion. Residential Wrecked. 15 People Hurt. Fire Follows

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 17

A building: at the corner of Market[?] and Kent streets, city, was wrecked, about 15 people were injured, and hundreds of windows were shattered…

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Disastrous Explosion And Fire In The City Residential Wrecked In Explosion Building Gutted by Fire Big List Of Injured City Blast

The Labor Daily · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 1

SEVERAL people had miraculous escapes from death or serious injury lost night in a sensational explosion, entailing the shattering and…

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Pines Hurdle Tough on Tasker Beaten A Whisker By Blackford Record Wrecked Flemington

Truth · Sunday 1 March 1936 · page 3

AFTER to-day's Hurdle at Flemington, Bill Tasker, owner-trainer of the Sydney leaper, African, reckons he's…

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Yachting. the Schooner Wins From Large Fleet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 13

Windward, the schooner, decisively won the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's yacht race on Saturday from a dozen other starters. She beat her cutter namesake by 4m 8s[?] Thetis…

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Steamer Refloated

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1936 · page 6

BRISBANE, Monday.--The Japanese freighter Yaye Maru, which went aground in Brisbane River yesterday, was refloated early this morning…

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