Pilot Steamer Fails To Find Missing Yacht
SYDNEY, Monday.—The pilot steamer Captain Cook was sent out last night to search for a 25ft. launch in which Mr. E. HY Dodds, of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
60 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 3
Japanese Steamer Capsizes
TOKIO, January 3.—Elevan half-day-makers were drowned and 16 were reported missing when the 6,827-ton Kobe steamar Midori Maru…
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AFTER being adrift in a launch for several hours yesterday afternoon and last night. Mr. W. J. Smith, of Hurstville, owner of the craft, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Palestine Steamer Destroyed by Fire Bucharest, January 5
The Palestine liner Harcarmel was destroyed by fire off Constanta (Rumania). The 40 members of the crew jumped into the sea and were rescued…
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Portion of the wreckage of the 30ft. motor launch Mervyn, valued at between £400 and £500, which was pounded to pieces in rough seas at Glen elg. Wreckage was strewn along the beach…
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LOS ANGELES, January 8. ROBERT horne and George Spernak, who confessed that they had killed "Mad jack" Morgan aboard the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured Pilot Found Spent Night In Wrecked 'Plane LONDON, January 19
After having been missing for 24 hours, Acting Pilot-Officer Laurence Allen, aged 21 years, was found at 9.80 a.m. to-day in his wrecked R.A.F…
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THE disaster to the freighter Stuartstar, on a reef at Hood's Point, near East London (South Africa), on December 17,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ice Wrecks Bridge Steel Arch Buckles In Centre MONTREAL, January 27
An ice jam has swept away Niagara Falls view bridge which links Canada with America. The ice pack reached a height of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Search For Piratical Submarine 82 Destroyers Take Part Repercussions To Sinking Of British Steamer (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, February 1
EIGHTY-TWO destroyers are searching for the Spanish rebel submarine which sank the British steamer, Endymion, off Cartagena yesterday. Britain has strengthened her anti-piracy naval patrol in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scientific Love Tests To Stop Wrecked Marriages ADELAIDE
The Matrimonial Conciliator (Brig.Gen. S. Price Weir), who has set many broken marriages back on the blisful path during his term of office,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Filming Too Realistic Speedboat Wrecked; Three Injured
SYDNEY, Friday.—A racing shell with eight oarsmen aboard was cut in two by a speed boat in Double Bay to-day during the filming of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →People Flee In The Night Floods Render Them Homeless Lifeboat To Rescue LONDON, February 14
TWO hundred people had to flee from their homes, at Horsey (East Norfolk) when heavy seas swept away a sand dune and water surged inland for five miles, flooding the village…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Famous Comet Is Wrecked In Mud LONDON, February 14
AFTER having passed through snowstorms and gales, a representative has arrived by 'plane at Nicosia (Cyprus), where…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Emden Wreck Plundered Ship Detained SINGAPORE, February 15
ABOUT £500 worth of scrap metal is alleged by the Singapore police to have been plundered by a Japanese steamer from the wreck of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scrap Iron Stolen From Emden Wreck SINGAPORE, February 17
As the Emden wreck at Cocos Island is regarded as Australia's property, the police at Singapore are awaiting instructions from Canberra…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Hits Launch Lucky Escape Of Occupants SYDNEY
Two occupants of a launch had an amazing escape this morning when their vessel was struck by an unknown coastal steamer several miles…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Is Steamer On Reef?
SYDNEY, Monday,—A report, that either the Nieuw Holland or the Nieuw Zeeland went ashore on a reef 12 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homestead Wrecked By Floods
PICTURES OF THE DAMAGE AT LAMBINA STATION after the disastrous Central Australian floods last month. Top—The ruins of the once neat homestead. The gum tree shown is the one in which four men, a woman, and two young children stayed fol15½ hours with menacing floodwaters swirling round them. Centre—The new Lambina…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →16-Foot Boat Wrecked Two Girls Have Ordeal
SYDNEY, Monday.—An oversea freighter, the Clan Macarthur, yesterday rescued the crew of the 16 footer Joyce which was wrecked in a…
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