WHEN passing through the channel at the mouth of Duck River, Smithton, shortly after dusk on Friday evening, the wellknown Holyman freighter, Tambar, 700 tons, Captain T. J. Bennett, ran aground on a sandy spit on the eastern side of ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Mon 18 May 1936, Page 7
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