Wreck Inquiry
LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.—A preliminary inquiry into the wreck of the auxiliary ketch Lady Flinders on Three Hummock Island on August…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
60 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 3
World Cruise In Ketch To Take Two Years
BRISBANE, Wednesday.— Hundreds of applications have been received from Queensland and Southern people to make a world cruise in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Fishermen's Ordeal MELBOURNE
Three shipwrecked fishermen arrived at Foster late Saturday night after walking 40 miles from Wilson's Promontory. They stated that they left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Romance at Sea Schooner Sails Into Sydney SYDNEY
ROMANCE in the guise of a former fishing schooner sailed into Sydney Harbor yesterday. The vessel is the Henrietta, and she has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mystery Note Near Wrecked'plane
LONDON, October19—A mystery note, stating "What will happen to this 'plane in a few minutes?"was found beside the wreckage of one of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ill-fortune Dogs Ketch Utopian Ideals Of Crew HOBART
111-fortune has beset the crew of the auxiliary ketch Connella, which left Hobart on October 3 with the object of founding a modern Utopian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →18 Killed In Victorian 'Plane Crash Machine Hits Mountain While Flying in Rain and Low Clouds Passengers Killed Instantly; Fire Sweeps Wreckage MELBOURNE
CRASHING into the side of a mountain while flying in low cloud and rain between Mt. Dandenong and Bourke's Lookout at 1.45 p.m. today Australian National Airways 'plane, Kyemma, was completely wrecked and all of the 14 passengers and crew of four were instantly killed. The machine was due in Melbourne at 1.14 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Miner Thursday, October 27, 1938. the Wreck of the Ill-fated Kyeema
WITH harrowing consequences and appalling suddenness Australia has suffered the worst air disaster in its history. The complete wreck of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Race To See Cup Run
There will be no difficulty this year in deciding the most adventurous and romantic trip to see the Melbourne Cup. It will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Looting & Violence Wave of Fury Against Jews Incendiarism And Trail Of Wreckage Throughout Germany (Special to "The Miner") BERLIN, November 10
HUGE emporiums looted and set on fire... Jewish flats and homes invaded and wrecked... Jews taken into protective custody; others arrested on suspicion of arson... street bonfires of furniture... foreigners taken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi Man Builds Ketch
SYDNEY, Tuesday.— When the auxiliary ketch Hispaniola sailed down Sydney Harbor on her way to Lord Howe Island, her owner-builder. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ketch's Rudder Made From Banana Case
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The auxiliary ketch Lady Godiva arrived in port yesterday with a rudder improvised from a banana case. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Wreck Sighted From Air
CAIRNS.—Captain Gatenby, of Australian National Airways, has reported sighting a wreck on Saturday near Cape Richards. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Flying Boat Four of Crew Perished (Special to "The Miner.") BAGDAD, November 28
EFFORTS to rescue the Calpurnia's mails have been handicapped by the fact that the crash scattered the mails in Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Bodies Missing Flying Boat Wreck Sequel BAGDAD, November 24
NO trace has been found of the three missing members of the crew of the Imperial Airways flying boat Calpurnia, which was forced…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Man on the Bridge by the Skipper of a Pleasure Steamer
The other day a man told me that be reckoned mine was the sort of job that would suit him down to the ground. All I'd got to do was to go…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ben Bowyang Partnership That Wrecked The Business
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flying Boat Is Wrecked By 80-m.p.h. Gale Darwin Storm Darwin
THE Empire flying-boat Coorong, which arrived last night from Koepang with three tons of Christmas air mail, was swept ashore and wrecked by an 80-milean-hour gale which swept across Darwin Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Flying Boat Insured
SYDNEY, Tuesday—The secretary of the Qantas Empire Airways (Mr. H. H. Harman) said today that the flying boat Coorong which was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck Of Coorong At Darwin DAEWIN
Important discoveries, which suggest how the flying boat, Coorong drifted from its mooring and was wrecked in a gale in Darwin Harbor…
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