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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939

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Beached Yawl, But Forgot Exhaust Men Forced Ashore When Water Poured In

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 2

Beached near the Rushcutters Bay baths last night because of a defective drain-pipe, the 35ft. yawl Camilla was flooded by water entering the engine exhaust outlet. The owner, Mr. G. A. Brown,…

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Tank Corps Manoeuvres — Red Indian Wigwam at Showground — New Cargo Steamer Arrives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 20

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Lifeboat Crashes in Open Sea

Daily News · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 1

ONE of the s.s. Mariposa's lifeboats crashed 60 feet to the water during lifeboat drill on Tuesday. The falls gave way. The accident happened as the…

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Lifeboat's Crash Into Sea Delays American Liner

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 8

A large lifeboat crashed 65ft. into the sea from the Mariposa on the voyage from Melbourne, and was salvaged with difficulty. The mishap occurred about 4…

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Shipboard Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 2

IT WASN'T a storm at sea that wrecked this 70-passenger lifeboat on the Mariposa, which reached Sydney yesterday. It was damaged during lifeboat drill on Tuesday. It fell into the water and was salvaged with difficulty…

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Seaman Lost During Lifeboat Drill

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

A seaman, J. Griffith, was lost overboard from the motorship Imperial Star, which arrived yesterday from London. He fell from a lifeboat during boat…

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Lifeboat Beyond Repair Still Enough Provision For Passengers

Daily News · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

The S.S. Mariposa will leave Sydney for San Francisco to-day minus a lifeboat. The life-boat, which fell from the ship during life-boat drill on the voyage from…

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On Maiden Voyage New Steamer Clan Forbes

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

On her maiden voyage in the Clan & Shire Line's joint Australian service, for the which she was specially built, the new steamer…

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Japan-australia Line New Steamer Kosin Maru for Australia

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

The new Japanese cargo Kosin Maru, which is scheduled to sail from Sakito on April 12 for Australian ports, is taking the…

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Flying-boat Wrecked on Congo River Report in Sydney on Arrival of Waterlogged Mail

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Imperial Airways flying-boat Corsair is believed to have been badly damaged early last week in a mishap while landing on the Congo River (Africa). It was reported in Sydney…

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Stinginess Can Wreck Marriage Dorothy Dix--Copyright

The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 9

Dear Miss Dix,-- I am considering marrying a young man of whom I am very fond, but there is one thing I am afraid of He…

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Spanish Tribunal to Try "Popular Front" Wreckers. Burgos, March 14

The Catholic Press · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 18

The head of the newly constituted Tribunal of Political Responsibilities in Spain is General Guillermo O'Farrell, whose Irish ancestors settled there after…

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Radio to Aid I.R.A. Wreckers London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

Posters, displayed in southern Eire yesterday announced the operation of a secret Irish Republican Army radio station…

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SUEZ is a Vital Link of EMPIRE Why Italy Is Jealous Of British Control Through a narrow canal in the dunes of the Near East flows the lifeblood of three great continents. That canal is the Suez canal. It is the thread that binds the British Empire, the vital short cut from the teeming Mediterranean to Eastern Africa, Arabia, the Orient. Because of the Suez Canal Mussolini has been shouting at France, England hangs on to Palestine. Were the canal suddenly to be wrecked, English ships would have to sail two-thirds again as far to reach England's Indian possessions

The World's News · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 4

TO Italy Suez is the pathway to Djibouti. Without Suez Djibouti would be as far from Italy by sea as is New Zealand—halfway round…

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Ketch Leaves for San Francisco

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 10

Mr. and Mrs. George O'Brien, with their sons Noel, aged 8 years, and Lyall, ased 10, leaving Sydney Harbour yesterday afternoon in their auxiliary ketch Hispaniola bound for San Francisco, via Lord Howe Island…

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Pacific Voyage. Family on Ketch. Lord Howe First Call

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 9

The auxiliary ketch Hispaniola. in which Mr. George O'Brien and his wife and two sons are sailing to San Francisco left Double Bay yesterday…

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Launch Capsizes at River Bar. Men Washed Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 15

Three men weie in danger of drowning on Saturday afternoon when their launch capsized at the bar of the Macleay River. They clung to the boat for half an hour…

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Steamer Refloated. London, April 10. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 12

The steamer Hilary (7,403 tons), wnicn was on its way from Brazil to Liverpool, and went aground in a fog near Carmel Head, six miles from Holyhead, has been refloated…

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Sydney-cairns Tourist Trips By A.U.S.N. Steamer Ormiston

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 4

Macdonald, Hamilton &£ Co. announce four special tourist trips from Sydney to Cairns by the A.U.S.N. steamer Ormiston, commencing from Sydney…

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Cargo Steamer Thornliebank Now Being- Fitted Out For Bank Line

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 5

A new cargo steamer, the Thornliebank, was launched from the West Dock shipyard of John Readhead and Sons, at South…

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