Advance (shipwrecked 1933)
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''Advance'' was a
screw steamer A screw steamer or screw steamship (abbreviated "SS") is an old term for a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine, using one or more propellers (also known as ''screws'') to propel it through the water. Such a ship was also known as an " ...
that was wrecked when she sprang a leak whilst carrying tea-tree saplings between
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and Coopernook. She was lost on the
Manning River Manning River (Birpai language, Biripi: ''Boolumbahtee''), an open and Breakwater (structure), trained mature wind wave, wave dominated estuary#Lagoon-type or bar-built, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast ...
,
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on 17 June 1933. The wreck has not been located, but her approximate coordinates are .


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Shipwreck Database
*Australian Shipping
Arrivals and Departures 1788-1968 including shipwrecks
*Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks

;Books *Wrecks on the New South Wales Coast. By Loney, J. K. (Jack Kenneth), 1925–1995 Oceans Enterprises. 1993 . Shipwrecks of the Mid North Coast Region Maritime incidents in 1933 Interwar period ships of Australia Merchant ships of Australia Steamships of Australia {{Merchantship-stub