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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
THIS is the story of the dramas, the heroisms, the sufferings and the tragedies that took place in a 28 ft. lifeboat which in March, 1942, drifted 1,000 miles across the Indian Ocean after the torpedoing of the Dutch ship…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CHINESE girl spy, a murder gang of five, and a husband and wife who jumped overboard figure in today's story of the 26-day lifeboat voyage in the Indian Ocean described by the sole white survivor, Walter Gibson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Capt. Mike Blackwood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR 26 days the small lifeboat drifted in the Indian Ocean after the thatch steamer Rooseboom had been torpedoed, on March 1, 1942. In and round the lifeboat when the voyage began were 135 people. The only white survivor, was WALTER GIBSON, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONLY once during the 26-day lifeboat voyage ofter the steamer Rooseboom was torpedoed did Walter Gibson, of the Argyil and Sutherland Highlanders, contemplate suicide. He and another men jumped overboard,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN this, the last instalment of his story of a 26-day lifeboat voyage, Walter Gibson, only white survivor, tells how he nearly died after reaching land, and how he feared he would be eaten by savages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS 38-FT. KETCH, how at Port Adelaida, will be usad by Dr. A. E. Joske, of Balaklava, who is planning an ovsrasaa erulss In Steptember. Dr. Joske hopes te sail the ketch singlehandsd to England and America where he will continue his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Los Angeles, February 7.—A gangland bomb wrecked the £40,000 radar-protected; home of gambling king Mickey Cohen shortly before dawn—but Cohen escaped injury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Genoa, February 9.—Italian salvage men will try to raise a Greek ship which sank near Genoa 2000 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Washington, April 11— Thirty men aboard the Norwegian freighter, Geisha (5,113 tons), were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney.—Five persons narrowly escaped injury and then had to swim ashore when a speed boat, travelling at 30…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane.—The burnt out wreckage of a plane has been found near Croydon, about 250 miles southwest of Cairns…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE.—A constable sifting earth beneath the wreckage of the burnt-out aircraft found last Thursday 14…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Council electricians at 10 a.m. today completed a 17-hour battle to repair power lines and fuses damaged in a wild gale…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne. — Withdrawal of the support of five big unions wrecked a Communist attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, June 8.—The paddie steamer Lucy Ashton will be propelled by jet aero engines in trials off the Firth of Clyde in July…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney.—A fireball struck the Masonic Temple, Hurstville, last night, ripped a 10-feet hole in the roof and hurled bricks and mortar 25 yards away. It then flashed 50 yards down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney.—A Sydney businessman plans to salvage about half a million pounds worth of gold from the barque General Grant which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The verandah of a shop collapsed when one of the posts was knocked down by a panel van about 5.45 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney. — Civil aviation and railway authorities are investigating the cause of the accident which wrecked an Ansett airliner…
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