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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937

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Prison Riot. Many Escape. Tear Gas Fails. Guards Injured and Building Wrecked. GUELPH (Ontario), Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 11

The prisoners at the Ontario Reformatory gained control of the prison after a riot in which blankets and mattresses were burned, lights…

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Small Steamer Buffeted by Gales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 18

The small Dutch cargo steamer Slberoet, which arrived from New Zealand ports yesterday, reported encountering a succession of storms in the course of her Tasman crossing. As the vessel was lightly…

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19 on Sinking Steamer Snowstorm During Rescue Effort Outlook Is Grim Oslo

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 15

AMID mountainous seas, the Norwegian liner Venus all day strove to rescue 19 men from the…

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Wreck of the Rangi. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 14

The bodies of the four persons drowned when a timber-laden scow, the Rangi foundered off Rakino Island on Thursday night have all been recovered…

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Failed to Lay the Dust Building Wrecker Fined 30s

The Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 13

For having failed to lay the dust while demolishing a building in George-street, E. M. Spinks was fined 30s in the central Summons Court…

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Wreck Bodies Found

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--With the discovery today of the bodies of Captain P. J. Petersen and the mate, Harold Helgeson, all the bodies of the…

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Wreck Found, But No Survivors Oslo

The Sun · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 31

It is feared that the crew of 20 of the Finnish steamer Savonia (1800 tons), which grounded near Kristiansand, have perished…

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Church Wrecked

The Sun · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 23

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Two Ships Wrecked. Many Lives Lost. German Naval Vessel Founders. LONDON, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 12

Two shipwrecks, causing the loss of perhaps 45 lives, occurred yesterday. Willie trying to rescue the crews of two distressed ships in a raging snowstorm in…

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Wrecking, Terror Espionage Radek, Piatakov, To Stand Trial

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 1

On Saturday, Jan. 23, the trial of 17 more members of the Trotsky-Zinoviev terrorist centre will open. Among the accused, the best known are Karl Radek, Piatakov, Sokolnikov, and Serebriakov, all old members of the…

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Strikers and Captain Fight on Steamer At Capetown Voyage Held Up Capetown

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

THE crew of the Shaw, Savill and Albion steamer- Maimoa (8011 tons) are on strike and the vessel, with…

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S.O.S. Tells of Steamer Sinking to Doom Rescuers Rush in Blizzard Stem's Toll In North Sea Trawler Lost Oslo

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

FOUR steamers are making A the best speed possible to the assistance of the 1610- ton Norwegian cargo steamer…

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Books Will Be Wrecked on Ivy's Rock Make Him the Big Bet At H.P. Trots On

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 19

EVERYTHING comes to those who wail, so IVY'S ROCK looks something to bet on in the Harold Park Handicap on Monday. In a similar class race, at the last meeting on the track, he was the…

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Hospital Wrecked, Homes Destroyed in Spanish Carnage

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

Damage done by General Franco's troops to the Hospital St. Charles (left), and a scene of devastation after rebel troops had shelled St…

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Desperate Position Now On Sinking Steamer LONDON

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 24

MESSAGES from Oslo state that the situation aboard the Karmt, the Norwegian cargo steamer which has been battered by waves in the…

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Strike Settled. British Steamer Sails. CAPETOWN, Jan. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 10

The British steamer Malmoa, with a valuable cargo for Australia, sailed at midnight, after a delay of 3G hours caused by a strike by members of the crew…

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Plot to Wreck Soviet. Strange Confessions at Moscow Trial. Japanese and German Agents. "War Will Come in 1937." LONDON, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 9

At the trial of Karl Radek, Grigori Sokolnikoff and the IS others who have been charged with plotting against the Soviet regime, the prosecutor described "a vast plot engineered by Leon Trotsky to destroy the Soviet administration and help Germany,…

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Shells Rain on Madrid. Families Buried in Debris. Telephone Service Wrecked. LONDON, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 10

Madrid suffered the worst bombardment, of its long siege on Saturday, when 8in and 6in shells were rained on the capital at intervals all day long…

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'Plane Wrecked. Two Occupants Killed. LONDON, Jan. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 10

One of two Airspeed Envoy aeroplanes, which were carrying newspapers to Paris, and which encountered strong southerly gales, was wrecked…

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Smouldering Wreckage

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

A fireman using a chemical extinguisher on the smouldering wreckage of the "Golden Eagle" monoplane after it crashed in flames at Mascot yesterday, incinerating the pilot, Miss May Bradford, and two women passengers…

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