Rescued From Wrecked 'Plane Miraculous Escape From Serious Injury
Pilot-officer G.K. Buscombe and Fiight-Sergeant H. Gould, the crow of the Air Force Hawker Demon 'plane, which crashed on its way from…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
151 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 8
Motor Yacht Ashore at Forster
Bound from Sydney to Brisbane on a holiday trip, the 10-ton motor-yacht Moonbi, owned by Mr. Penny, of Sydney, ran ashore at Forster on…
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Early this morning the tug Forster standing well out to sea towed off Forster beach the yuebt mondill, owned by Mr. Gilton ponny. a syd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Test Fever Spreads to New Zealand Chartering a Steamer for Melbourne
Stilting that New Zealanders had been tremendously excited by the Tost Matches, and that this had increased since Australia won the fourth Test,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Steamer Attacked WARSAW, February 10
Limping hea[?] with one propeller missing and the decks scarred and scored by serial bombs, with a gaping…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sank at Wharf. Coastal Steamer Erringhi SYDNEY
In view of the difficulty of getting floating crane through the Pyrment Bridge it is not likely that any immediate attempt will be made to raise the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Cyclone Crippled Steamer FRANTIC S.O.S. SYDNEY
Crackling atmosp[?]eries to-day blanketed all the radio communications with the disabled Japanese steamer Shousing which is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Adrift Off Queensland Coast Reported Cyclone Area Sydney
No further information has been received concerning S.O.S. signals picked up last night from the Chinese steamer Shousing, which is reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twelve Men Trapped in Wonthaggi Mine Sheet of Flame Terrific Explosion Wrecks Shaft Frantic Rescue Efforts Melbourne
A heavy explosion in drives running oft No. 20 shaft at the Wonthaggi State Coalmine to-day trapped 13 men 500 feet underground. It has npt yet been ascertained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Sinks
The steamer Erringhi, of about 100 tons, sank at her moorings at a wharf in Darling Harbour on Sunday. There was no one on board, and the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Strikes a Mine Reaches Port Under Own Steam (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MARSEILLES
The steamer Llandovery Castle, oil route from Marseiiles to Gibraltar, with 300 passengers, struck a mine off Cape Cerbere, where the French and Spanish…
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The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship company Ltd., has been advised that is new steamer Muluhinb[?] was launched on saturday from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Missing Stinson Airliner Found Wrecked & Burnt on Queensland Border Two Passengers Alive
Wreckage of the Stinson airliner VH-UHH was found on Sunday afternoon on top of the MacPherson Range on the border…
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On Sunday afternoon, on the McPherson ranges close to the northern border of N. S. Wales and Queensland the missing Sydney—Brisbane airliner was found,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wrecked Stinson. Survivor's Pitiful Story
A pitiful tale of his efforts to bring water from a creek only 200 yards away was told by Mr. Piastead, one of the two survivors of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unknown Warship Fires On Steamer LONDON, March 8
The Admiralty stated that an unnamed steamer reports having been fired upon by an unknown warship in the Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Men Drowned in Launch Disaster Three Saved After Heroic Fight. Launch Dashed on Rocks. Pilot Steamer in Danger in Attempt to Give Aid. Graphic Story Told by Survivors
Six men were drowned and three others were saved only after desperate efforts by rescuers when the 32-foot launch Voyager was wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death on Steamer
Shortly after stating that she felt "good oh," Mrs. Sarah Purcell, aged 62, widow, of Laidley, Queensland, was found dead in her bunk on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Haiping Abandoned at Sea Engines Become Useless Brisbane
The Chinese steamer Haiping, escorted by the freighter Mildura, which last night was limping down the Queensland coast to Cape Moreton at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Haiping Abandoned At Sea Heroic Efforts To Save Ship Rescued by Mildura Brisbane
Despite the heroic efforts of the master and the Chinese crew to prevent the heavy seas making headway against the pumps, the freighter Haiping, of 1948 tons, formerly the…
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