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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
79 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 4
LONDON, March 16.—Fierce gales, with gusts in some places reaching 80 miles an hour, raged across Southern England last night. Widespread damage was done adding to the ruin and sufferings caused by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Honolulu, March 18.—The navy has announced that 22 men were rescued from the severed stern of the wrecked tanker, Fort Dearborn. The rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, March 19.—Two Chinese were killed and four others injured when a lifeboat was smashed as it was being lowered from the British tanker 'Diloma'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amsterdam, March 20.—The Greek steamer, "Alexandra," of 4,355 tons struck a mine off Terschelling Island and is reported to be sinking. Tugs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY—Trevor William McGaughey (21), builder's laborer, was given an 18 months' prison sentence at Parramatta Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Townsville, March 31—A small land party today reached the RAAF Mosquito which crashed on a rugged peek of Saddle Mountain last week. They found no trace of the two occupants, but dense scrub is being searched. The plane was badly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane, April 3—A Catalina searching the gulf country for the Mosquito aircraft yesterday sighted wreckage of a plane assumed to be on American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The bodies of the two occupants of the crashed N.Z. Air Force Mosquito plane were found yesterday in the cabin of their crashed aircraft on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Batavia, April 6.—The wreckage of a Dutch Dakota plane, missing on a half hour flight between Batavia and Bandoeng since March 12, was spotted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK April 16.—It is estimated that 1,200 people are dead and between 2,000 and 3,000 injured in Texas City following two terrific explosions today in the French steamer, Grand Camp. Most of the city was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—An explosion at the joint works of A. C. Hatrick Pty. Ltd. and the Reichhold Chemicals Inc. (Australia) Ltd., in Rosebery, last night injured seven persons, hurled portions of the works over a square…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London, April 17. — The Panama-owned San Nicholas, 2.300 tons, with [?] of thirty, including three Britons, has vanished since Iraving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, April 23.—Caught in an 80 m.p.h. gale during a. tow to Clyde shipbreakers, the battleship Warspite is adrift off Lands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, April 24 — Mountainous seas and an eighty m.p.h. gale ere preventing the rescue of forty-two members of the 7,219 ton steamer Samtampa, which broke in three after being driven broadside onto rocks near Porthcawl, about…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, April 24.—All 42 members of the crew were drowned when the Santampa, 7219 tons, broke in three on rocks near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE.—A freak willy-willy is thought to have wrecked the Kongorong Methodist Church, near Mount Gambier. This is the only conclusion the police have been able to draw after a thorough inspection of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.)—As a mild earthquake shook Wellington shortly after 2 p.m. yesterday, a freak wave struck the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane, March 5.—The scene of the mash is lit up by dozens of search tights as to search for victims goes on in the twisted wreckage. Most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE.—Delirious, exhausted, and with his feet bleeding, Mel Carrison (28), of Mount Gambier, struggled for two days and two nights through scrub country, over cliffs and across rugged rocks after his small cutter was wrecked on the north…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY. — Tables, crockery and fittings were smashed, and the propietor was attacked with a knife when three men tried to…
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