Time Bombs Wreck Havoc in London Explosions in Tube Stations
Two terrific explosions, believed to be due to time bombs concealed in suit-cases, occurred within a few minutes of each other at…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
115 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 6
Slept in the Lifeboat Limited Accommodation on Morinda. Sydney
As the steamer Morinda, which arrived from Lord Howe Island this morning, has only limited cabin accommodation, five of the passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Protest Against British Action Release of Steamer
A Hongkong message states that while Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble and Admiral Yarnell, British and American Commanders-in-Chief,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Dalfram and Japanese Consul Mysterious Threats. Sydney
Although the police do not take seriously further mysterious threats against the Japanese Consul and the safety of the steamer Dalfram, now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Threats To Blow Up Steamer Precautions Taken By Police SYDNEY
Although the police do not take them seriously, further threats have been made against the Japanese Consul and the safety of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreck of Bomber Found London, Feb. 13
Missing for 13 days, a Blenheim bomber was found by a hiker on a lonely Derbyshire moor. The machine was wrecked. Both members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipwrecked Fishermen Found Long Trek in Bush
With their bodies and feet bruised and bleeding, two shipwrecked fishermen were found in an exhausted condition two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Loading Pig-iron Into Steamer Tymeric Decision of Waterside Workers. Port Kembla
A stop-work meeting of waterside workers at Port Kembla to-day decided to load pig-iron for Japan into the steamer Tymeric…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Marine Inquiry Stranding of Steamer Captain's Version Sydney
A Court of Marine Inquiry was to-day opened concerning the stranding of the steamer Melbourne, off South era Point, Maroubra Bay, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stranding of Steamer Belbowrie Cp Marine Court Gives Judgment. Sydney
Judgment was given to-day by the Marine Court concerning the stranding of the steamer Belbowrie off Maroubra Bay on January 16th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAS S.O.S. a Hoax? No Trace of Wreck Discovered LONDON, Feb. 23
Mystery surrounds an S.O.S. message purporting to have come from a ship in mid-Atlantic which stated that it had been torpedoed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stove Exploded Kitchen At Bank Wrecked Auckland (N.z.)
An explosion of a benzine stove shook the Paparoa branch of the National Bank of New Zealand like an earthquake, wrecked the kitchen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cast Adrift a Ship-wrecked Radio Valve
At 7 o'clock on the night of January 16 last, the wooden coastal steamer Belbowrie (218 tons) slid out of her berth' at Balmain, Sydney, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I German Club Wrecked Polish Students Demonstrate
Polish students have resumed their anti-German rioting, provoked by the attitude of the Germans in Danzig towards the Poles in that city and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Safe Ashore While Search Went On At Sea SYDNEY
While being sought for at sea by the pilot steamer Captain Cook, the police launch Sirius, and the Bondi Life-saving Club's surf-boat, two men…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mission School Wrecked Chungking, March 16
The American Mission School building at Ichang was destroyed in an air raid yesterday in which 40 houses were wreeked, resulting in 250…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Warship Stops Steamer London, March 17
The Admiralty announced that a Spanish warship had stopped the British steamer, Sandgate, inside Spanish territorial water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Avalanche Wrecks Village PARIS, March 26
A fresh avalanche swept the village of Bareges at the weekend. Residents on the outskirts lowered 40…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Across Pacific Family on Ketch ' SYDNEY
The auxiliary ketch, Hispaniola, carrying Mr. George O'Brien and his wife and two sons to San Francisco, has left for Lord Howe Island, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch Capsizes Crew Washed Ashore SYDNEY
When their launch overturned at the bar of the Macleay River three men were in danger of drowning. They clung to the boat for half an…
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