British Steamer Sunk. London
The British steamer Carmarthen Coast, was sunk in the North Sea. Nineteen members of the crew were rescued by means of a lifeboat, five…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
96 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 5
U-boats Sink 14,000 Ton Liner Fight Off Spanish Coast Steamer Blown Up at Singapore London
It is reported that German submarines appeared off the west coast of Spain and sank a British ship of 14,000 tons by gunfire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Makumbo Salvaged by Japanese. Osaka
The Okada salvage Company sailed the former British steamer, Makumbo, into Osaka to-day. The company succeeded in dragging her off the reef at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nazi Mines Five Ships Sunk In Forty-Eight Hours Italian Steamer Blown Up London
German mines have been responsible for the sinking of five ships in two days. The latest casualty lists reveal that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I.R.A. BOMBS Phone Boxes Wrecked London and Birmingham. London
I.R.A bombs wrecked numerous telephone boxes in London and Birmingham in the early huors of the morning. Five explosions over a wide area in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Storm Pilot Boat Wrecked 22 Lives Lost. London
Twenty-two were drowned, including the captain and the majority of apprentices, when the Liverpool No. 1 nilot boat was driven aground, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fast on Rocks N.Z. Cargo Steamer. Auckland
The cargo steamer Wrikouaiti, 3926 tons, struck the rocks off Dog Island, near The Bluff, last night and is still hard and fast. The crew of 25 are safe…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Fitzroy Wreck
An interesting visitor to Taree last week was Mr. O. Johansen, the man with the charmed life, or is it that he has stamina which will not let…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SAFEBLOWERS Printing Works Wrecked £16.000 Fire Damage. Melbourne
Thieves who entered F. W. Nivens printing works in Flinders street early this morning inserted so much explosive into the kevhole of a safe that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Pilot In Crashed Nazi Plane Body Washed Ashore. London
Narrowly missing a gasometer, a German twin-engined monoplane crashed into the shallows on the Norfolk coast. The body of a German boy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minelayer German Plane Wrecked Activity In Air Raiders Along Coast London
"The wreckage of a German aircraft and the body of German airmen were recovered on the east English coast. This machine crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.Z. FLOODS Families Leave Homes Stock Drowned--bridges Wrecked. Wellington (N.z.)
After a big landslide, caused by rain, had carried away a fence and the garden, the occupants of a house in a Wellington Hill suburb, awoke to find their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forced Landing Air Liner Wrecked Near Darwin Aerodrome No One Seriously Injured Darwin
Five of the ten members of the Second A.I.F. who were going to Sydney were injured and a £27,000 Lockheed Eleetra liner was destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pullen's Steamer Service
Dairymen are advised that the Moongi will leave Brown's wharf on Christmas Day at 5 a.m. for Grafton and will pick up main river cream en route…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Steamer Arauca Carried Oil Did She Dump Munitions? New York
The Treasury reveals that the Arauca carried between 800 and 900 tons of oil, which the Maritme Commission officials declared is over double…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]Untless Dead in Turkish Earthquake [?]Wns, 80 Villages Wrecked [?] Thousands Frozen To Death [?]Families Trapped in Holocaust [?] Swept Into Black Sea By Tempest ISTANBUL
[?]y estimated that 42,000 were killed and injured in the [?]ndjan alone. [?]partly and completely wrecked 12 provincial towns, each [?]000 and 40,000 inhabitants, besides 80 villages…
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