Steamer Sunk by War Plane. Tallinn
A belligerent plane bombed and sank an Estonian steamer in the North Sea. The war plane machine-gunned the crew and wounded two wh[?]e they…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
73 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 4
Pacifist Meetings. Wrecked By. Crowds. Wellington (N Z.)
Led in most instances by soldiers, crowds of men and women wrecked meetings being conducted by pacifists in Stratford and Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bomber Wrecked Three Occupants Safe All Used Parachutes. Melbourne
The Air Force plane which crashed near Kurri last night after its three occupants had parachuted to safety, was engaged in night exercises, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merkur Ashore Off Northern Coast Many Passengers on Board. Sydney
The liner Merkur went ashore on the Northern Territory coast early today. Advice to this effect was received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Drowned Parents--Two Children Boat Wrecked on Sandbank. Melbourne
Four members of one family lost their lives when a boat was smashed to pieces by big seas on a sandbank at Inverloch, before dawn this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Mined. London
Four members of the crew are missing from the steamer Josephine Charlotte, which was mined and sunk off the south-east coast of England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Strikes Rock. Copenhagen
Russian planes stopped the steamer Kastor in the Baltic. She took a new course and struck a rock and sank. The crew were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U-BOATS Swedish Steamer Sunk Reply to Norwegian Request. London
The Swedish steamer, Pajala, 6873 tons, was torpedoed without, warning, but the crew, of 35 was saved and landed at a Scottish port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Ablaze 600 Passengers Take To Boats Warships Speed to Rescue. Toulon
The Italian steamer, Orazio, bound for Genoa with 600 passengers aboard, is ablaze a hundred miles from Barcelona. It sent out an S.O.S., stating…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Broke in Two Dutch Airliner Mail Washed Ashore. Sydney
According to a broadcast by the Japanese short wave radio station at Bandoeng last night, the Dutch airliner, which crashed yesterday with the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Quick Trip Relief Plane Arrives Carried Mail Salvaged From Wreck. Sydney
Carrying 35lbs. of mail salvaged from the wrecked plane at Bali, a relief machine of K.N.I.L.M. arrived at Mascot this afternoon…
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The Newcastle Aero Club's hangar was practically blown to pieces during the cyclonic storm that shook Grafton last Sunday. Only one wall and portion of another were left standing. One of the Aero Club's Moth Major aeroplanes, which was in the hangar during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sea Horrors Castaways on Raft One Survives Of Nine Crew of Swedish Steamer London
Parched, frostbitten and semi-delirious, Stigand Bergstrom, survivor from the Swedish steamer Foxen, 1304 tons, landed after four…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck of Fitzroy Recalled Death Of Mr. Olaf Johansen One of Three Survivors
The death occurred at his home in Sydney on Saturday, about noon, of Mr. Olaf Johansen, from a heart attack, probably augmented by the heat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SCUTTLED German Steamer Sighted British Cruiser. New York
After first despatching an S.O.S. call the German merchant steamer, Wakama, 3771 tons, is believed to have been scuttled when she sighted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Steamer Searched by Warship. Tokio
The Ryushin Maru radioed her owners that she was returning to Japan after being searched by a warship of unknown nationality off Mindanao…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Search for U-boats Finnish Steamer Sinking Did Planes Bag Two Submarines? London
It is reported that the Finnish steamer, Greta, of 2600 tons, is sinking 50 miles south of Cape Clare, off the Irish coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Lahn German Steamer Arrested Fled From Sydney Before War Sydney
The German steamer Lahn, 8498 tons, which left Sydney before dawn on August 26, a week before the outbreak of war, without obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →143 RESCUED Passenger Steamer Aground Passengers and Crew Taken Off. London
All the Unster Queen's 93 passengers, mostly women and children, were saved when the vessel, which was bound from Liverpool to Belfast, ran aground off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods in U.S.A. Five Dead, 500 Homes Wrecked. San Francisco
The floods are subsiding, leaving five dead and 500 homes wrecked. Thousands of acres of crops are ruined. The damage will run into many…
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