Overboard From Steamer Long Swim to Shore
Losing his balance and falling overboard as the steamer Wear was clearing Burnie for Sydney, just before midnight," Charles King, fireman, had to…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
151 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 8
Fire on Steamer Townsville
A loakage of carbon bi-[?] which is used for destruction of sugar one posts, canada a fire on the steamer [?] at Town[?] Jolly. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wrecked Tug Mystery of Missing Funnel SYDNEY
According to the diver who yesterday examined the wreckage of the tug, Undine, which was blown up at No. 4 Wharf, Walsh Bay, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shipwrecked Crew Surrounded by Sharks a Terrifying Experience
A terrifying experiencc aboard a wrecked stenmer surrounded by sharks, is described by the crew of the Buryhill, which struck a reef off Dakar…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eucharistic Congress in Manila Australian Delegates to Be Housed on Steamer Sydney
The official Catholic delegation from Australia to the Eucharistie Congress in Manila, as well as many lay churchmen, will sail by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sea Drama 32 Feared Lost Ship Wrecked London, January 12
It is feared that 32 lives have been lost at sea off the north coast of Scotland during a terrific gale in the early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclonic Storm at Kearsley Churches and Homes Wrecked
A cyclonic storm struck the township of Kearsley, near Cessnock, shortly after 7 o'clock on Saturday night. Within a few minutes it wrecked two churches, lifted another off its pillars, and ruined several homes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sinking Norwegian Steamer Nineteen People Facing Death (Australian Press Assn. Message.) OSLO
Nineteen aboard the sinking Norwegian steamer, Trym are facing imminent death in mountainous seas in the North Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crew Saved Steamer in a Gale OSLO, January 24
The crew of 30 on the doomed Norwegian cargo cargo Karmt were res[?] by the mail steamer Leda yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dramatic Disclosures at Moscow Trial Wreck Soviet Accused Plead Guilty Startling Revelations Moscow, January 24
"A vast plot engineered by Leon Trotsky to destroy the Soviet administration and help Germany, Poland and Japan," was described by the prosecutor at the trial of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck Located Cargo Worth £ 75,000 GENOA, January 25
The salvage ship Artiglic has icenated the wreck of the British Steam Navigation Company's Mongra, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Trial Wrecking Activities Amazing Story Moscow, January 25
Long accounts of their Wreoking activities as big industrial chiefs were given by Boguslavsky and Brodniff at the resumption of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Startling Story of Naval Sabotage Guns Crippled Malicious Wreckers at Work Admiralty Steps in London, January 26
Startling details of acts of sabotage, in-volving danger to the crews of battleships and submarines, as well as the crippling of big guns and other naval equipment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COERCION German's Evidence Plant Wrecked Moscow, January 26
The first foreign witness in the trial of seventeen men for conspiracy gave evidence to - day. He was a German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas Explosion Wrecks Cafe Three Employees Treated for Shock
While a gas-meter was being changed at a cafe-cabaret in Queen-street, Brisbane on Tuesday an explosion occurred wrecking the premises and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Men Drowned in Shipping Disaster Night Collision Helpless in Forecastle Steamer Founders Melbourne
A terrible disaster occurred last night when the Tasmanian steamer, Kakariki foundered after her bow had been crushed in a collision with the steamer Carradale. Five men were drowned, the men who were lost being: Charles Lynge, 44,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Bodies. Recovered From Sea Karariki Wreck Melbourne
At the week-end divers and police recovered the bodies of three of the five members of the crow of the steamer, Kakariki, which sank off Cellibrand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sunken Ship Danger to Shipping Kakariki Wreck Melbourne
The Union S.S. Co., Steamer Kakariki, which sank near Williamstown on Friday night, may be blown up, as the wreck is in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Violent Protest Jews Wreck Office WARSAW, February 3
As a protest against the method of distributing permits for emigration to Palostine 100 young Jews smashed the windows of the Central Palestine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crew Rescued Wrecked 'Plane LAUNCESTON
Pilot-officer G. K. Buscombe and Flight-Sergeant H. Gould, the crew of the Air Force Hawker Demon pla[?]e, which crashed on its way from…
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