Queer Wish Wanted To Be Wrecked Fate Obliges the Professor
There is an old, old saying that if a person wishes often enough and hard enough for anything he will ultimately achieve it…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
117 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 6
Plane's Mail Bags 100 Salvaged From Wreck 120,000 Sea-sodden Letters. London, December 18
All the 100 mail bags of the Imperial Airways liner Cygnos, wrecked at Brindisi on December 5, have now been salvaged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Capsizes 11 DROWNED, 16 Missing. Tokio
Eleven were drowned and 16 are missing, including many holidaymakers, when the steamer Midori Maru capsized during a snowstorm on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Liners Threaten Steamer Trade Fifty-passenger Aeroplanes 60-Ton Flying Boats
"Aircraft will soon be a serious competitor in the overseas fast express and passenger trade, which is now being largely served by the superliner."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£2000 Yacht Wrecked by Explosion Fire Completed Destruction Three Occupants Injured Sydney
One man was seriously injured and two others suffered burns when an explosion occurred on Mr. Harold Arnott's auxiliary yacht. Songari[?]i,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eight Blocks Wrecked by Explosion Madrid Mystery Communication with Paris Severed Paris
Mystery surrounds the reports from Valencia that a terrific explosion in Madrid wrecked eight blocks of houses and killed a hundred people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dutch Steamer Sunk by Submarine. Barcelona
The Dutch merchantman, Hannah, of 3730 tons, was sunk by a torpedo fired by a submarine off Cape San Antonio, off the Spanish Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Hold Up Lifting Span Jams Long Queue Of Cars Steamer Delayed 3 HOURS
Traffic between Grafton and South Grafton was suspended for over two hours last night when the toe plate on the down river side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bitten by Shark Aviator From Point Piper Feet Injured, But Swam Ashore Condition Is Not Serious. Sydney
While swimming at Lady Martin's Beach, Point Piper, this afternoon, Alan J. Murray (24), aviator, of Point Piper, was attacked by a small shark…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Seas Steamer Orara Delayed Sixty Passengers at Byron Bay. Lismore
After sheltering off Cape Byron from 10 o'clock this morning, the [?].C.S.N. Company's steamer, Orara, was unable to return to the jetty this afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →STEAMER'S S.O.S. Steering Gear Carried Away Montoro in Cyclone. Brisbane
Alarm was caused in Brisbane when an S.O.S. call was received from the Burns Philp steamer, Montoro, at 4.30 a.m. to-day, stating that the ship's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Submarine Attacks British Steamer. Barcelona
The master of the British ship. Cloniara, advised the British Consul at Valencia, that an unknown submarine fired a torpedo at the Cloniara, 18…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Profit Out of a Wreck. Melbourne
D. Allan, a Mallacoota fisherman, Who paid £70 for the freighter, Saros, wrecked near Cape Everard lighthouse, made a profitable deal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bomb Plot to Wreck Jap Vessel Excitement At Seattle Disclosure by Prisoner Seattle
The disclosure of a plot to bomb the Japanese liner Hiye Maru caused the vessel to be moved hastily from its moorings at the Great Northern Dock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Wreckage Found in Persian Gulf. London
The wreckage of a plane believed to be that of Christian Moanchi, who disappeared while attempting a Saigon-Paris record, was found in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Narrow Escape Two Men In Launch Boat Wrecked on Rocks. Sydney
George Cunningham, 40, of Redfern, and Leonard Pollett, 37, of Millers Point, had a narrow escape from drowning when their launch was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ice Jam Wrecks Bridge. Niagara Falls
Unloosed by a phenomenal thaw an ice jam, 100 feet high, below the falls. crushed the piers of the £1.250.000 international steel bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Crew Mutiny Threat Alleged Steamer Silksworth Turns Back. Hong Kong
The British steamer Silksworth, when 24 hours out of Hong Kong was forced to return owing, it was reported, to threatened mutiny by the Japanese crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HEROISM In Terrific Seas When Lifeboat Capsized. London
Scenes of heroism were witnessed when the St. Ives lifeboat, returned with 23 members of the wrecked Panama steamer, Alba, capsized in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck Pays Good Dividend
The wrecked freighter Saros has proved a valuable speculation for the men who have become financially interested in the hulk. Mr. Dave Allan,…
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