Ulm Abandons Atlantic Flight Woods Returning by Steamer. Sydney
A message states that the proposed attempt by Ulm to fly across the Atlantic from Port Marnock beach, Ireland, has been temporarily abandoned owing to the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1933
109 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 6
Fishing Launch Wrecked Four Drowned Port Hacking Disaster Engine Failure Craft Smashed on Rocks Anchor Line Fouled Propeller. Sydney
Four men were drowned and three rescued when a fishing boat was carried on to the rocks by heavy seas in Beat Harbor, Port Hacking, this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Storm Mast Carried Away Sails Badly Damaged Ketch Limps Into Port. Melbourne
With the mainmast broken off a few feet from the deck and her sails torn almost to pieces, the auxiliary ketch, The Hawk, of 85 tons gross,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Were Drowned When Fishing Launch Wrecked One Body Still Missing. Sydney
No trace has yet been found of the body of S. J. Gleeson, who was one of the party of five men who were drowned when a launch capsized at Piper's Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Cafe Wrecked Wedding Guests See Red
A wedding supper at the Douai Cafe, Paris, was going merrily into the last course of wine and biscuits, when the guests after idly scanning the biscuits,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rocket Plane Experimenter Explosion Wrecks Laboratory. London
The British United Press correspondent at Osnagrueek says an explosion wrecked the laboratory of Reinhold Tiling, a rocket aeroplane experimenter, Tiling,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twenty-one Lives Lost Greek Steamer Sinks Five Survivors Landed. Philadelphia
Twenty-one lives were lost when the Greek steamer, Annoula, sank in a hurricane off the North Carolina coast on Saturday, according to five survivors…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World Peace Endangered Hitler in Role of Wrecker Germany Withdraws From Disarmament Conference Out of League of Nations, Too German Press Welcomes Decision Plebiscite to Decide Govt's Policy London
The Chancellor of Germany, Herr Hitler, dramatically announced to-day that the German Government had decided to withdraw from the League of Nations and from the Disarmament Conference. The Reichstag has been dissolved in order to enable a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →64 Drowned Steamer Sines During Storm. Tokio
In a typhoon yesterday, the vessel Yashima Maru (945 tons) sank when nearing Kobe. Sixty-four passengers were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplanes Their Use in Life Saving Victorian Wreck Recalled. Sydney
The Minister for Commerce, Mr. Stewart, said to-day that experiments were being made with an appliance enabling an aeroplane to cast a line between a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Planes and Coastal Wrecks
The Minister for Commerce (Mr. H. Stewart) said that experiments were being carried out by the marine branch of his department and the Air Board to perfect,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Caught in Fog French Plane Wrecked Passenger and Mechanic Killed Paris
A French aeroplane, which was caught in a fog while flying from Switzerland to Le Bourget, tore off the tops of trees in a forest for a distance of 500 yards,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wairarapa Wreck Anniversary
Tragic scenes marked the wreck of the Union S.S. Company's steamer, Wairarapa off the New Zealand coast in 1894. With 230 persons on board the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Missing Schooner Isobel Left Balboa on July 15. SYDNEY
At the request of Mrs. W. H. Weeks, wife of a London dental surgeon, the Department of Navigation has cabled Panama, Tahiti and Fiji seeking tidings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whale Ashore at Angourie Museum Authorities Want Skull
Visitors from Maclean to Angoune on Sunday last found a twelve foot whale driven on to the beach about three quarters of a mile south of Angourie…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOUNDERED Steamer In Storm Crew of 27 Missing No Trace of Survivors or Wreckage. London
Little hope now remains that any of the crew of the British steamship Saxilby, which yesterday sent out distress calls when 400 miles' off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ten Lives Lost German Steamer Founders Only One Survivor. Rotterdam
The sole survivor of the crew of 11 of the German motor ship, Kreuzsee, from Bremerhaven to London, arrived aboard the steamer Egeria to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Troop Carrier Wrecked Fifteen Occupants Were Injured. Jerusalem
A Vicars Victoria troop carrier, flying from Ramleh to Amman, struck a hilltop and overturned, and was completely wrecked. The occupants--18 airmen--were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lieut. Chapman First Man Ashore at Gallipoli. Sydney
According to the supplementary preface just issued of the "Official History of Australia in the War." Lieutenant Chapman of the ninth battalion was the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.O.S. Call Spanish Steamer Afire Crew of 26 Rescued. London
Hearing the bell in his cabin ringing, indicating the S.O.S. call, J. Satchell, wireless operator, of the steamer Deebank, which is homeward bound for New…
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