Dutch Steamer Rescued Amid Rough Seas London
By superb seamanship, two tungs, one operating from Canada and the other from Britain have saved a 5000 ton Dutch steamer which was disabled in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
50 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Santa Claus Is a Fireman Toys From Blitz Wreckage LONDON
Motor lorries rattled out of London on Christmas Eve with a great freight of 2,000 toys for the children of women in war work who are being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Carole Lombard Is Dead. Searchers Find Wrecked Plane. Nineteen in Machine. Including Army Pilots. New York
Carole Lombard, beautiful Hollywood actress, and wife of Clark Gable, was found dead when search parties reached…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dubbo Mystery War Wantonly Wrecked Dubbo
Police are unable to ascribe a motive for the deliberate wrecking of a motor car that was stolen from Macnuarie street a week ago it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer May Be Total Loss Newcastle, This Afternoon
It is feared now that the steamer Gwydir, which was beached off Norah Heads early on Saturday following a collision with a freighter may break…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer and Freighter in Collision. All Passengers were Saved. SYDNEY
Passengers were safely taken off a passenger steamer which collided with a freighter off the Australian coast on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Black-outs Mr. Lazzarini's Appeal One Light May Wreck City Sydney
[?] the blackouts in [?] trad a reach a sate of [?] approaching that in [?] will be taken to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lived on Flour and Water. Men of Wrecked Lugger. DARWIN
For nine days, men who were on the lugger, Violet, when the was wrecked on February 2, lived on flour and brackish water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Fleet in Action Cruiser Wrecks Nazi Stronghold
After an icebreaker had leared a path for it in frozen Balt[?] waters, a Russian Cruiser Shelled a coastal village on the Leningrad front for two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lost Brazilian Steamer Inquiry to be Held Rio De[?]aniero
The Brailian Government is to hold an inquiry into the torpedomg of the Brazilian steamer Barquare off the U.S. coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amazing Escape of Young Air Force Man Reads Like Fiction. Landed in Trees in ’Chute. After Jungle Trek, Almost Shipwrecked. Canberra
A young Air Force man has reached an Australian base after experiences one could expect to read in the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scouts Salvage Aluminium. Hazardous Trip to Wrecked Plane. SYDNEY
Blue Mountains district Boy Scouts yesterday salvaged a large part of the aluminium from a wrecked plane at Narrow Neck, Megalong Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer in Collision Allegations Against Second Officer SYDNEY
A court of marine inquiry in Sydney today inquired into the circumstances surrounding the collision between the Newcastle and Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pemmican in the Lifeboats Eskimo's Ration Saves Shipwrecked Sailors
Eskimos and trappors of the Frozen North who ate their dried strips of caribou meat or pemmican. have parsed on the idea of this highly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lithgow's Buildings And Essential Undertakings Will Be "Wrecked" in Big Test
In theory buildings will be wrecked, gas mains will be burst and fires will rage in congested areas when a big N.E.S. test will be conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pemmican in the Lifeboats Eskimos' Ration Saves Shipwrecked Sailors
ESKIMOS and trappers of the Frozen North who ate their dried strips of caribou meat, or pemmican, have passed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Indian Failure Defence Issue Wrecks Scheme DELHI
REFERRING to the failure of Sir Stafford Cripps' visit to India with the British Government's proposals for Indian independence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ferry Steamer Ashore Passengers as Community Singers SYDNEY
After recovering from the first shock many singers, passengers on the ferry steamer Barrenjoey, which ran ashore at Smedley Point last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Well Known Steamer Submarine Victim in AtLANTIC No Lives Lost SYDNEY
News of the [?] of a large passenger liner by a [?] in the Atlantie, has been received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Africa's Sheep Provide Lifeboat Gloves for Shipwrecked Mariners
The skins of South African sheep ares today helping to wave the lives of shipwrecked British sailors. Sheepskin gloves, large and warm,…
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