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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea
41 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 3
Eden, January 8.—The salvage vessel Foremost Seventeen returned to Eden yesterday after having ot its first attempt located the sunken freighter Cumberland and recovered more than 70 tons of copper and lead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, January 10.—Customs officers have made an official move on cargo being salvaged from the sunken freightor Cumberland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fairbanks, Alaska, Sunday.—The wreckage of a missing DC3 cargo plane has been sighted 9000ft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hong ong Wednesd The British- registered freighter Admiral Chase is again in tow with the tug…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rome, Wednesday.— Six Italian fisherman returned to Ancona today after having been cast away for three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, January 30.—Buildings were demolished and cars blown into the sea when the devastating hurricane struck Suva on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London, February 18.—A British Airliner carrying 31 persons to East Africa was reported missing in the Mediterranean area today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, March 10.—At least ten seamen were drowned and forty-nine more are missing from three ships believed foundered during a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Anchorage (Alaska):—An Air Force Dakota has crashed in high mountains 100 miles west of here and all five men on board are…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rlo De Janeiro, Thursday —Trie burnt wreckage of a Pan-American Airways strato-cruiser missing for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra, May 20.—Australian coastal shipping was being wrecked by effects of the overtime ban imposed in Australian ports by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Tom Wilson, 88, of Grange, survivor of five wars, including the 1884 Sudan War, is one of Australia's oldest sailors. Mr. Wilson is able to recall the name, captain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →CRUMPLED WRECKAGE is all that was left of the Ryan training plane in which Max Bond, 29, of Brighton, was killed at Broken Hill on-Sunday afternoon. Mr. Bond, a director of Robby's. Aircraft, Parafield, had flown from Adelaide to take part in an air pageant. A crowd of 6,000 saw the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wellington (N.Z.). — The ketch Miru, owned and sailed by Dr. T. R. Davis, has arrived at Rapa Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Manila, Friday.—The British steamer Inchislay has been reported to be aground off Palawang Island, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, Wednesday—Inside a crashed light plane which had killed its two occupants, police today found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A panel van owned by the P.M.G. Department was wrecked when it overturned on the Menindee road last…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Melbourne—The body of one of the two airmen who were killed when their Wirraway plane crashed into Corio Bay on Friday was recovered among wreckage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tehran, Monday.— Tudeh Party members and anticommunists drew knives on one another in street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane. — Dr. C. W. Hammond, of Maclean, N.S.W., his wife and four children were towed into Gladstone by a naval launch after drifting in a ketch off the Queensland coast for…
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