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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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1st Class First Ashore Discrimination Alleged By Passengers In Strathaird Quarantine Melbourne, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 1

GRIEVANCES were aired over the alleged discrimination shown between first and tourist class passengers in the liner…

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Polar Hero Called "Wrecker" Moscow

The Sun · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 5

One of the men accused of complicity in the Arctic "wrecking" plot is the Polar scientist-hero, Professor…

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Drink Fountain Thrice Wrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 9

Vandals in Rose Bay have destroyed a new drinking fountain on the corner of Vickery Avenue and New South Head Road…

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Ice-bound Ships. Soviet Government Blames Wreckers. MOSCOW, March 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 17

The Soviet Government declares that the seven Russian freight ships and six ice-breakers reported to be ice-bound north of Siberia are in their present plight as a result…

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Stranded Steamer. Attempt to Cement up Hole. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 12

No attempt was made to-day to re[?]oat the steamer. Dalia from Mecca Reef. Thursday Island, because the pumps, which had failed to operate yesterday, but which were in working…

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Professor Schmidt. Soviet Accuses Him of Attempted Wrecking. MOSCOW, March 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 12

Professor Otto Schmidt, formerly one of Russia's official heroes, is among the executives who, the Soviet Government alleges, plotted to wreck the attempt by several vessels to sail…

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Coming Ashore

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 8

Some of the passengers coming ashore at Pyrmont wharves yesterday after they had been allowed to leave the quarantined liner Strathaird…

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Wrecked Steamer. Hopes of Saving the Dalia. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 14

The cargo steamer Dalia is still aground on Mecca Reef, off Goode Island. A diver is continuing plugging operations. He is supplied with air by a pearling lugger anchored…

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Deliberate, Says Brit. Govt. Bombing of Steamer London

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 1

THE Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs informed the House of Commons that the Government had completed inquiries into the…

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Wrecked A 12-Year-Old Record Bradford Was Brilliant Won 5 Furs. Flying At Newcastle Fine Meeting Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 April 1938 · page 2

THOSE who have supported Bradford at good prices for the Doncaster Handicap must have congratulated themselves a great deal at the conclusion of the Flying Handicap at to-day's races. He not only won, but lowered the twelve-year-old record…

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Still Retains Crimp. Wool From 1869 Wreck. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 April 1938 · page 11

A definite indication that wreckage dredged recently from Corio Bay is portion of the clipper Lightning, which was burnt to the water's edge in 1869, when loaded with…

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Girl Put Ashore From Big Liner Sydney Tourists Join Ship

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 1

FLOODLIT from stem to stern, the Empress of Britain, largest liner to enter an Australian port, left Woolloomooloo Bay at…

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Woman Saved From Cannibals Wreck, Heroism, and Suffering

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

CONCENTRATED horror and dreadful suffering enter into the story of the wreck just 102 years ago of the 500-ton brig Stirling Castle, which piled up on a reef off the Queensland…

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Nieuw Holland at Full Speed Race Through Cyclone To Aid Wrecked Ship

The Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 9

On the voyage from Singapore, the Dutch liner, Nieuw Holland, which arrived at Sydney to-day, raced 250 miles through heavy seas to assist the steamer, Baud, which was ashore in the…

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Liner's Race to Assistance Steamer Stranded

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 6

The Dutch liner Nieuw Holland, which arrived in Sydney yesterday from Singapore, figured in a sensational rescue of 62 passengers from…

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Dutch Steamer Aground on Reef—spectacular Explosion —Governor at Post-graduate Medical School

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 20

The Dutch cargo steamer Baud (2,370 tons), aground on a reef at Kei Islands, 1O days ago. Lower left: Passengers being transferred to the liner Nieuw Holland in lifeboats. The Nieuw Holland steamed 250 miles to the…

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Dutch Bride Saved From Shipwreck

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1938 · page 2

A DUTCH bride, married by proxy, was saved from a wreck by the Nieuw Holland, which arrived yesterday…

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Steamer Refloated

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

THURSDAY ISLAND, Wednesday. -- After having been aground on Mecca Reef for 11 days, the steamer Dalia was refloated early today, and reached here…

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Steamer Dalia Extent of Damage Unknown

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 4

No advice was received yesterday by Millars' Timber & Trading Co. regarding the future movements of the steamer Dalia, but they are of the opinion…

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Ambulance Wrecked In Skid At 75 m.p.h. TAREE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 7

MANNING RIVER Ambulance was wrecked today in a 75-mile-an-hour crash into an electric light standard. Charles Orwin, 26, of Taree, one…

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