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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
46 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 3
AS a result of the devastating daylight raid by the Royal Air Force on Castel Vitran aerodrome. Sicily, on Sunday 44 enemy planes were left burned out wrecks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MEXICO CITY, January ll.—An explosion totally wrecked a powder factory in a suburb of Mexico City. The owner claims that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DARWIN, Saturday.—A large quantity of aluminium is being salvaged in Darwin from Lockheed Hudson, plane which crashed 18 months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twenty-seven survivors from a Greek cargo steamer have landed at a port on the east coast of Canada. They said that the ship was shelled…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE. Monday.—It is now feared that the steamer Gwydir which was beached off North Head early on Saturday morning following a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, February 18.—It is officially announced that the 5000[?] ton Brazilian steamer Buarque has been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thomas Edwardsen (64), fisherman, of Menindee, died suddenly at Bakara Station, near Menindee, last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The skins of South African sheep are to-day helping to save the lives of shipwrecked British sailors. Sheepskin gloves, large and warm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, April 7.âThe Admiralty announces that H.M.S. Havock (Lieutenant Commander G. R. G; Watkins, C.S.R.) has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vera Lynn, the "sweetheart of the Forces" as the B.B.C. called her, is to-day the favorite singer of men and women workers in Britain's war factories…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The leader of the U.A.P. in the Federal Parliament, Mr. William Morris Hughes, had an experience which he described…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A "shipwreck suit" is the latest British invention for saving seamen's lives. It is made of a bright yellow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PORT MACDONNELL, Thursday.â Since a fully provisioned and elaborately made ship's raft was washed ashore last Thursday on the rocks at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ADELAIDE. — A two-year-old boy clambered into the driving seat of an electrically driven buckboard parked in Gouger Street, and pressed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"LONDON.—Every ship in the British merchant service must now carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equipment in the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEW YORK, June 14. — A large force of detectives and police pattrolled the approaches to Grand Central Station after receiving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWARK (New Jersey). June 15.— The Hudson River tube wreck on May 26, in which five persons were killed was due to a drunken motorman and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, June 17.—A 58-hour ordeal in a rubber boat with sharks nibbling holes put of it, was described by Aviation Ordnanceman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese wiped out the city of Cebu in the Phillipines on May 22 in reprisal for guerilla activities by Cebu civilians…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Photographs smuggled out of France show indisputably that the R.A.F bombing of the Renault works on March 3 was so well directed that the whole of the…
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