150 Miles in 12 Feet Dinghies Wrecked Lugger's Crew Reach Queensland Coast Townsville
Daily Examiner · Monday 15 November 1937 · page 5
After the lugger, Koza, was wrecked on a reef about 150 miles northeast to Townsville early on Thursday, the crew got away in two dinghies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Had Cargo of Bombs Italian Steamer Blown Up. Paris
Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 November 1937 · page 5
The Italian steamer Boccaccio sank after an explosion off Ushant. The crew were rescued by a Dutch steamer. "Le Soir" says the Boccaccio was on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Torn From Moorings By Flood Damage Estimated at £10,000. LISBON
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 24 November 1937 · page 5
Five tugs, were needed to check the runaway British steamer, Dalhanna, which was torn from its moorings by a flood at the mouth of the Tagus River,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Wrecked 17 Of Crew Lost Struck Submerged Object. New York
Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 November 1937 · page 5
It is feared that 17 of the crew were lost when the steamer Nollington Castle struck a submerged object near Haiti…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →African Steamer Released By Spaniards No Cargo Infringements. Malta
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 December 1937 · page 5
The steamer, African Mariner, which was seized on November 20, has been released. It was found that there was nothing in her cargo infringing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Goods Left In Steamer's Held Stevedores Refuse to Unload Them. London
Daily Examiner · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 5
Stevedores at Southampton, finding 200 tons of Japanese Christmas novelties, among the cargo of the Canadian Pacific liner, Duchess of Richmond, held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cygnus Crash Experts Open Inquiry Seaplane Practically Wrecked. Brindisi
Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 5
Three British experts opened an inquiry into the crash of the Imperial Airways, flying boat, Cygnus, which crashed on Sunday with the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Liner Wrecked Ashore on Rocky Coast. London
Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 5
The Blue Star liner, Stuart Star (11,928 tons) is ashore on the rocky coast of Hood point lighthouse. It has been abandoned as a total loss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Auxiliary Ketch Visits Coff's Harbor En Route to New Guinea. Coff's Harbor
Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 4
The auxiliary ketch Milga, owned by the Papuan Oil Development Company, and bound from Sydney to New Guinea, called at Coff's Harbor this afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →200 CAMPERS Homeless At Burleigh Thirty Tents Wrecked in Gale. Burleigh Heads
Daily Examiner · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 5
Thirty tents, and nine huts at Burleigh Heads were blown down in a storm at 9 o'clock to-night. After the storm, which lasted nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Fine Ketch Visit to Coffs Harbour
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 2
The auxiliary ketch Milga, owned by the Papuan Oil Development Co., put in to Coffs Harbour on Sunday afternoon for supplies of oil and fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Landed in Sea Steamer Goes to Aid of Jap Plane Tokio
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 5
Answering an appeal for help from a Japanese plane, the steamer Nanking found a disabled machine in the water near Nagoya, but was only able to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coaster Saros Piled Up on Rocks Story Of The Wreck Told by Rescued Crew Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 5
Members of the crew of the coaster Saros, .which was piled up on the rocks almost under the lighthouse at Cape Everard, said to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beach Explosion Kills Youth and Girl Wrecks Two Residences Caused by Stray Bullet Melbourne
Daily Examiner · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 4
When a rifle bullet accidentally struck an explosives magazine on the beach at Kilcunda, near Wonthaggi to-day, a youth and young woman…
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