Bingera Ashore Great Barrier Reef Badly Holed Brisbane
The coastal motorship Bingera is ashore and badly holed on Spitfire Reef, 540 miles from Brisbane, in Whitsunday Passage, on the Great…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
140 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 7
British Steamer Attacked Near Spain Unknown Aircraft. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) PARIS
When the.British steamer, Surreybrook, arrived at Port Vendres, the captain reported that three unknown 'planes attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Fight Steamer on a Reef Tugs to Rescue Sydney
Two tugs are racing to-day through had weather to the motor freighter, Port St. John, which is on a reef at Lady Elliott Island off the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Would Wreck Hours System." Compulsory Training System. Mr. Clarey on 40-Hour Week
Mr. P. J. Clarey, M.L.C, declared the other day that compulsory military training, apparently wooing many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion on Ketch Master Badly Burned
There was a severe explosion in Constitution Dock, Hobart, last night, when the petrol in a 40-gallon drum caught alight on the ketch Huon…
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The Gibraltar correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph" states that, as the result of information from the Non-intervention Board, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worst Fog in Sydney for Years Steamer Hunter Held Up. Sydney
The worst fog in Sydney for years covered the harbour and nearly all the suburbs last night, disorganising ferry and tram…
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The Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry yesterday found that the stranding of the motor vessel Bingera on Spitfire Rock, Kennedy Sound,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kingsford Smith Wreckage Identified SYDNEY
The wreckage of a 'plane, which was found on the southern bank of Aye Island, near Burma, in May, 1037, has teen positively identified as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kingsford Smith Wreckage Indetified Burmese Investigations
Aircraft wreckage found on the southern bank of Aye Island, near Burma, in May, 1937, has been positively identified as portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rebel Bombers Attack Barcelona British Steamer Damaged. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) BARCELONA
Rebel bombers attacked the city, and damaged the British steamer Thorpe Hall. The first officer and an Irish…
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Aircraft wreckage found on Aye Island, near Burma, in May, 1937, has been positively identified as portion of the Lockheed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bomber Wrecked Near Liverpool Two Members of Citizen Air Force Killed
Two members of the Citizen Air Force were killed and three seriously injured when an Anson bomber crashed at practice at the Green Hills military landing ground near Liverpool late yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cargo Steamer Ashore Later Floated Off. Sydney, Wednesday
The interstate cargo steamer Kapara went ashore early this morning near Port Kembla, but was later floated off leaking in the forward…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Ashore Beached at Port Kembla SYDNEY
The interstate cargo steamer Kapara went ashore near the entrance to Port Kembla to-day, but, after bumping heavily in the swell for 6½…
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The British steamer penthames was sunk by rebel bombs In Valencia Harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia's Silkworm Industry Wreckers Punished
According to the Moscow correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian,"a report from Erivan, the capital of Armenia, describes how…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wreckage of War a Digger's Impressions
While in Sydney recently, Mr. D. J. Cameron, of Pimlico, had occasion to visit Randwick Military Hospital, and saw, in the same hut where he was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Steamer Bombed VALENCIA, June 6
Rebel planes bombed the British steamer St. Winifred in Alicante harbour, killing five members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Steamer Bombed Four Killed and 10 WOUNDED. Australian Press Assn. Message.) MADRID
Pour persons were killed, including a British non-intervention officer (Mr Edward Jones) and a British seaman named Bullock, and 10 persons were…
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