Bodies Found Rescue Party at Wrecked Plane CAPETOWN, June 9
Fifty farmers, with natives wielding, picks and axes, hacked their way to the wrecked plane which crashed while conveying Royal Air Force…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
140 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 7
Wreckage Found New York, June 13
The wreckage of an airliner, which vanished on March 1, during the Californian flood, was found to-day on a mountain side in the Yosemite…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amy Johnson Crashes Unhurt, But 'Plane Wrecked
Ten thousand people saw Amy Johnson crash in landing a new type of sail plane at Walsall (Eng.). She was unhurt, but the plane was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ascania Ashore Valuable Cargo of Gold QUEBEC. July 5
The Cuuard While Star liner Ascanla is hard aground on Big Island, in the St. Lawrence River, close to the spot where the Empress of Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Splinters Strike British Steamer. (Australian . Press Assn. Message.) VALENCIA
During a Rebel air raid on Valencia, bomb splinters struck the British steamer Yorkbrooke, wounding a Belgian non-intervention observer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Search for Wreck Diver at Great Depths EDEN
The ketch Viking Queen has returned to Eden following a further unsuccessful search for the wreck of the steamer Cumberland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Steamer Bombed VALENCIA. July 19
Five rebel planes participated in the bombing of the British steamer Staniland. Eight were killed and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bombing of British Steamer Eight Dockers Killed (Australian Press Assn. Message.) VALENCIA
Spanish, rebel planes, in a bombing raid here, set fire to the British steamer Stanland, and to her cargo, which had been landed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Gwydir
The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co. advises that the Gwydir, after undergoing the usual annual overhaul of machinery, boilers and hull and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Dry Land Steamer
There are many strange things in the world and one of the oddest is a steamer that runs on dry land. It is i found un a canal in Prussia, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Plane Wrecked
After fouling some telephone wires and striking two trees, a Royal Australian Air Force Hawker Demon 'plane crashed in a paddock at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Hunter Sold to Chinese Company Long Association with Newcastle
The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's passenger steamer Hunter is to be sold to a Chinese shipping company…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Disappearance From Manly Steamer Body Not Recovered. Sydney
Although the water police made an intensive search of the Harbour today, they failed to recover the body of a man who disappeared last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Cyclonic Disturbance in New Zealand a Trail of Wreckage. Sydney
Another cyclonic disturbance raged throughout New Zealand yesterday, blocking many roads, besides washing away bridges and causing landslides…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Steamer Bombed Valencia, August 5
The spirit of British seamen is indicated by the crew or the steamer Stanley, who suggested, after she was embed again to-doy that she be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Damaged Caught by Westerly Gale NEWCASTLE
The B.H.P. Interstate steamer, Iron Chieftain crushed the tug St. Hillary at King's Wharf, during a strong westerly gale this afternoon. A plate on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Passenger Lost From Steamer Canberra Had Been on a Holiday
When the steamer Canberra berthed in Brisbane on Friday from Cairns it was reported that Martin Bourke, 65, a former employee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Ship Wrecked Rebel Bombing Raid Barcelona, August 7
The British steamer, Lake Lugano, now lies a smoking skeleton at the Loyalist port of Palamos, after having been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwrecks
Blithely we sail on life's tempestuous sea, battling the waves, or steering merrily; watching the foam that frets an angry day, surge on the crest,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Schoolboys' Force Holiday. Wreck School at Week-end
When the Headmaster of Ere-kineville School (Mr. Thomas) entered the building yesterday, he discovered a state of chaos…
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