Cargo of Wreck Salvaging Kakariki
Part of the cargo of the Kakariki, which sank after a collision with the coastal freighter Caradale on January 29, when five lives were lost, has been…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
140 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 7
French Steamer Bombed. Drifting Helplessly. Marseilles
The French cargo steamer Guarluja wirelessed that she had been bombed by a rebel aeroplane and was drifting helplessly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Steamer Bombed. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MARSEILLES
The French cargo steamer Guaruja wirelessed that she had been bombed by a rebel aeroplane, and was drifting helplessly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of Scottish Prince Recalled Death of Hero
The death has occurred of Mr John Suter, 81, a retired builder, of Bilambil, near Tweed Heads. He was the fourth settler to take up land more…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →39-Ton Flywheel for Steamer
Built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd., England, a flywheel cast in one piece and weighing 39 tons, was unloaded from the liner Cathay at Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Injured Explosion Wrecks Shop £2000 Damage Wellington (N.z.)
Five people were injured, a shop demolished, and others partly wrecked, the damage being estimated at £2000, when a violent explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion Wrecks Chemist's Shop
A violent explosion, believed to be due to an accumulation of gases, wrecked a chemist's shop and damaged others in a block at Remuera…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Die When Clipper Meets Disaster Tragic News Confirmed Wreckage Found But No Trace of Crew Conflicting Views of Cause Washington, January 12
After many conflicting reports, the fate of the Pan-American Airways Samoan Clipper, bound from Pago Pago to Auckland, is now known. Wreckage of the ill-fated machine was discovered in the ocean 14 miles north-west of Pago Pago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Panay Wreck Abandoned Shanghai. January 13
Salvage or the sunken American gunboat, Panay, has been abandoned, and the vessel written off as a total loss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Destroyed by Fire. Later. Captain and Crew All Dead. Oil Pools Led to Wreckage. Washington, Jan. 12
The giant Sikorsky flying-boat, named the Samoan Clipper, bound from Pago Pago to Auckland, New Zealand, has been destroyed by fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Trips Steamer to Sydney
The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co. Ltd., directs attention in the advertising columns to special trips in connection with the 150th…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Captain Blamed for Wreck of Saros Marine Court's Finding
The Marine Court at Melbourne, which inquired into the stranding of the freighter Saros, on a ledge of rock under Cape Everard Lighthouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Plan Failed Attack on Jap. Steamer Dynamite Found Seattle, January 21
Customs officers and coastguards, who were investigating an attempt to blow up the Japanese steamer Hye Martt, found a suitcase filled with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap. Steamer Refusal to Load SYDNEY
Wharf labourers refused to load cargo into the N.Y.K. passenger liner, Adsuta Maru, at No. 7 Walsh Bay. The vessel arrived from Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attack on British Steamer MALTA, Jan. 25
A submarine, without any warning, attacked the British steamer. Lake Geneva, in the western Mediterranean,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trouble on Cargo Steamer LONDON, January 25
The police boarding the cargo steamer Mahia from Australia, after her arrival at the Royal Albert docks, London, led to the end of a mutiny…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Steamer Attacked Submarine Fires Torpedo. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) MALTA
A submarine is reported, to have attacked without warning the British steamer Lake Geneva in the western Mediterranean, firing a torpedo from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Steamer Stopped
The British steamer Sheaf Crest (2730 tons), bound for spain, was stopped by a Spanish insurgent warship, according to a Gibraltar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ice Jam Wrecks £1,250,000 Bridge Niagara Falls, January 27
Unloosed by phenomenal storms, an ice jam, 100 feet high, below the falls, crushed the piers of the £1,250,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer in Brisbane
Trainer J. Jurd, who has met with considerable success in Brisbane with Beau Cheval, has returned to Queensland after a brief visit to Sydney. He…
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