Eight Deserters German Steamer Dortmund SYDNEY
When the German steamer Dortmund arrived in Sydney to-day from the Gulf of Mexico, via New Zealand, the captain reported that night of the crew…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
115 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 6
Ketch Returns False Start on Cruise To America SYDNEY
The ketch "Hispaniola, which left Sydney 16 days ago, for America, via Lord Howe issued, unexpectedly returned to Broken Bay last night…
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Sir Edward Parry, when Commissioner for the Australian Agricultural Company, did everything he could to encourage industry. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Clarence River Steamer Ablaze Burnt to Water's Edge
The Clarence River pleasure and passenger steamer Kalipso, built in 1915, at a cost of £6000, was burnt to the water's edge at Cowper early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Experiences Rough Weather Passengers Thrown From Bunks. Sydney
The Blue Star line motor ship Canadian Star, which arrived in Sydney to-day, experienced extremely rough weather at one period of the voyage…
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Four men, from the lugger Dengen, which was wrecked near Grosse Island, were brought into Darwin yesterday. During a 13-day voyage in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Express Wrecks Tricycle Fettler's Close Call
A fettler whose name cannot be ascertained had a narrow escape from being run down by the Sydney to Brisbane express on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Stop German Steamer Consul Makes Protest. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) SHANGHAI
It is disclosed that a Japanese warship stopped the German steamer Sauerland, bound for Shanghai, on Wednesday, and examined the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aboriginal Postman Saves Shipwrecked People
A man and a woman, shipwrecked on the north west coast, owe their lives to a native postman, who can neither read…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mystery of Wrecked Steamer Twice Reported by Fishermen
A wrecked steamer is reported to be on an uncharted reef 20 miles south-east of Willis Island, 300 miles east of Cairns. As there have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gas Explosion Wrecks School BABERTON (Ohio) May 31
A gas explosion at a school injured at least 49 children, six critically. The injured were trapped when the walls…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →School Wrecked by Explosion
A report from Baberton (Ohio) says that a gas explosion at a school injured at least 49 children, six critically. The injured were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wrecked Freighter Abandoned on Reef Brisbane
The Greek freighter Fontine Carras, which struck the Bellona Reef on Wednesday, was abandoned when the water was over her decks. The men rowed 20 miles through moderate choopy seas to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ship Wrecked Uncharted Island Appears BRISBANE
According to a wireless message received from the rescue ship Australian, the Greek steamer Fotini Carras was wrecked near South Bellina reef…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bakery Wrecked Lighted Match Causes Explosion ADELAIDE
After working all night baking cakes for the week-end trade at his shop at North Adelaide, Alexander Thomas McKenzie, a baker, struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bakery Wrecked in Gas Explosion Baker Lit Cigarette
After he had worked all night baking cakes for the week-end trade at his shop at North Adelaide, Alexander Thomas McKenzie, a baker,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bombs Wreck Market Place 18 Arabs Killed in Haifa
Eighteen Arabs were killed and 24 were injured as a result of the simultaneous explosion of two bombs in the market place…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cutter Wrecked
The auxiliary cutter Lands End has been wrecked near New Guinea. All members of the crew are safe. Advice of the wreck was received at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wreck of Versailles Treaty Mr. Hughes's Regrets SYDNEY
Mr. W. M. Hughes, who, as Australia's wartime Prime Minister, signed the Versailles Treaty on behalf of the Commonwealth, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to End All Wars "Sadness of the Wreck." Sydney
Australia's war-time Prime Minister (Mr W. M. Hughes), who signed the Versailles Treaty on behalf of the Commonwealth, in an interview…
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