Wreck Sighted by Pilot of Air Liner. Cairns
A police party has left to investigate the report of an A. N. A. pilot, that he sighted the wreck of a 25ft. vessel near Cape Richards, on Hinchinbrook Island,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
117 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 6
13 DEATHS Gale Sweeps England Steamers Blown Ashore. London
Owing to the gale raging in the Channel, it was decided to postpone the sailing of H.M.S. Royal Oak, with the coffin of the late Queen Maud, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Launch Located by Police. Brisbane
The wrecked launch sighted by Capt. Gatenby, A.N.A. pilot, near Cape Richard, on Hinchinbrook Island last Saturday, has been located by a police…
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Imperial Airways announced that the destination of the flying boat Calpurnia. which crashed into Lake Amadi in Iraq, was Calcutta. It was carrying some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Mail on Wrecked Flying Boat. London
It is officially announced that the flying boat Calpurnia was carrying all Australian and New Zealand letter mail. prepared on November 23, and all New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane Girl Death on Board Steamer. Sydney
Margaret Robertson Park, 22, collapsed and died on the Interstate line Manunda, yesterday. The girl Lived in Brisbane. She had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rebel Warship Failed to Stop French Steamer. Parts
The steamer Grandque Villy did not heed a shot across its bows fired by a Spanish rebel warship. The French destroyer, Basque, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →130 Refugees on Steamer Aorangi. Wellington (N. Z.)
The Aorangi has on board 130 German and Austrian refugees bound for Australia. More than 20 refugees landed in New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Empire Flying Boat Swept From Moorings During Gale at Darwin Darwin
Swept from her moorings and dashed against the rocky shore during an 80 m. p. h. gale, shortly before midnight last night, the Empire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drank Poison Man On Ferry Steamer Pathetic Letter to Nurse. Sydney
Known to the police as a confidence man. Cyril Gatenby Parker, 45, drank poison while aboard a Manly ferry steamer on November 23, and died in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Men of Aran Strange Wrecked Ship Insurance Had Been Paid. London, November 19
A ship given up as a total wreck has been salvaged by the men who astonished the world a few years ago by their acting in the film "Men of Aran."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Escape From Devil's Island Frenchman's Privations Wrecked Off Coast. London, November 22
A dramatic story of escape from Devil's Island, the French penal settlement, was told this week in the Bristol Police Court, when 46- year- old Rene…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plane Wreckage Found By Fisherman Is It Ulm's Machine. Honolulu
A Filipino fisherman diving to recover his nets found the wreckage of an aeroplane partly buried in ocean sand below, the surface, 38 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scrapped Bomber Plane Wreck in Sea. Honolulu
Army officials are satisfied that the wrecked plane which was found in the sea by fishermen was a scrapped bomber, sunk at sea last year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Bomber Found in Desert. London
The R.A.F. Blenheim bomber, which disappeared recently on a flight between Baghdad and Cairo, was found. 60 miles from Habbaniya. All six…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mail Salvaged From Wrecked Calpurnia. Sydney
Air mail salvaged from the wrecked flying boat, Calpurnia, reached Rose Bay late this afternoon by the Imperial Airways Corrina, which brought…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →11 Lives Lost Wreck of New England Disaster Of 1882 at Clarence Heads
The steamer New England was wrecked at Clarence Heads on December 27, 1882. A regular Newcastle trader, she was on her way to…
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