The "Bizzy Girl" Auxiliary Ketch At Coff's Battle Through High Seas. Coff's Harbor
Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 3
With the owner, Mr. E. Little, of Sydney, as master, and a crew of four the 35ft auxiliary ketch, Bizzy Girl, arrived in Coff's Harbor late last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Destroyers Searching for Submarine British Government Takes Serious View Sinking of British Steamer. London
Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 5
The sinking of the British ship Endymion, in the Mediterranean, with the loss of 11 lives, is viewed seriously by the British Government, and…
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Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 3
The "Bizzy Girl," an auxiliary ketch, 35ft. long, put into Coils Harbour late last Tuesday night for shelter and repairs to a damaged rudder, after an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Wrecked by Alligator
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 7
An alligator sealed the rate of the Sikorsky amphibian plane which left Brisbane in March last year for New Guinea, Mr. H. A. Davis, the pilot,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death Roll May Be 19 the Rodney Disaster Nine Reported Missing Are Safe Denial That Launch Was Overcrowded Four Bodies Found in Cabin Wreck Lifted From 70Ft of Water Sydney
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 5
The death roll in the Rodney disaster now numbers nine, the bodies of three women and a boy having been recovered from the cabin of the launch this afternoon. Ten persons remain on the list of missing. Nine others, whose names were on the missing list last night…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 5
The above is a photograph, taken about 10 days ago by our Coramba correspondent, of the bridge on the main road from Coramba to Coff's Harbor. It depicts the damage done by the recent floods in this particular quarter. A man 5ft. 11 12in. is standing in the hole in the road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Wrecked To Avoid Crowd Quick Decision at Orange. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 5
Because of the large crowd on the aerodrome, Pilot Monty Fowler, of the Royal Aero Club, Sydney, had to make a quick decision at the Orange air…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Race to Port Steamer From Newcastle Fire In Hold Passengers Unaware of Danger Sydney
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 5
Believed to have been caused by spontaneous combustion among bales of wool and bags of zinc oxide, a fire broke out in number one hold of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spain British Steamer Struck by Shell. London
Daily Examiner · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5
The British steamer Shetland, awaiting orders in Valencia roads, was struck by a shell in the forecastle and Holed about the waterline. The crew's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Breathless Moments Escaped in Airship Wreck. (No. 49.)
Daily Examiner · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 2
Enveloped in a furious storm, a giant dirigible is fighting for its life. Lightning zigzags all around the monster gasbag. Crashing thunder drowns out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unable to Cross Bar Steamer James Cook. Coff's Harbor
Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 2
Advice was received to-day by Mr. R. Archibold, the Coff's Harbor representative for Messrs R. J. White and Co., that the steamer James Cook,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Escort of Porpoises Accompanied Schooner for 1800 Miles
Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 7
Schools pf porpoises, which for 10 days escorted a sailing ship for 1800 miles, were described by the master o the auxiliary topsail schooner Huia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Little Hope Missing Fishermen Dragged To Death By Current? No Trace of Wreckage Three Days Search by Ships. and Police
Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 4
Police searching parties from Kendall and Coopemook, who have been patrolling the beach between those centres since Friday morning,…
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Daily Examiner · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 4
Mr. Reg. Cavanagh, who claims to have wrecked £50,000 worth of planes and cars in his career as a stunt man for film companies, arrived in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plane Crash Passenger Killed Pilot Injured Machine Wrecked Near Kempsey Kempsey
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 4
When the VH-ULC Gipsy Moth plane, belonging to the Northern N.S.W. Aero Club, piloted by Mr. Harry Franki, of West Kempsey,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclonic Storm Woodburn Suffers Damage Over £1000 Rowing Boat Shed Wrecked Five Skiffs and Two Outriggers Smashed. Lismore
Daily Examiner · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 4
A cyclonic storm which struck Woodburn about 6 o'clock to-night wrecked the Rowing Club's boatshed and portion of another building, tore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gallant Rescue in Storm-tossed Sea Man Dives From Steamer Saves Girl in the Bight Adelaide
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4
Diving 40 feet from the deck of the Kanimbla into the storm-tossed waters of the Great Australian Bight. William Maddocks risked his life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Bombed By Planes Two Killed, Several Injured. London
Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5
Two members of the crew were killed and several injured and a nonintervention observer is in a dying condition, as a result of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tas. Floods Small Ketch Overdue. Hobart
Daily Examiner · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 5
Heavy seas have been raging around the south coast of Tasmania this week, and flood conditions have caused have in many parts of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Visiting Overseas Delegates Empire Primary Producers' Conference Day Out on the Clarence Steamer Excursion and Basket Picnic Dairymen And Their Problems
Daily Examiner · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 7
Of the overseas visitors who have come to Australia as delegates to the Empire Primary Producers' Conference to be opened in Sydney on…
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