Missing From Steamer After Explosion (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
Forty members of the crew and three passengers are missing from the steamer Biarritz, following an explosion in the North Sea…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
128 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 7
Swedish Steamer Sunk in North Sea Four Survivors From Crew of 21 LAND. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
The Swedish steamer Patria was mined and sunk in the North Sea. Only four survivor's of a crew of 21 have landed at a Swedish port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Badly Treated Natives m Nazi Steamer (“Mercury” Service) Dar Es Salaam (Tanganyika) January 28
Twenty-two natives. formerly members of the German steamer, the Askarl. disembarked from an Italian coaster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finns Attack Reds Poshed Back Many Tanks Wrecked ("Merenry" Service)LONDON, Jan. 31
A new Finnish offensive was launched yesterday to the north of Konmo, in Central Finland, against the Russian Filly- fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pitiful Privations of Wrecked Seamen Torpedoed Im Mid-ocean (“Mercury” Service) London, February 2
The twenty survivors of the crew of 33 of the Greek steamer Elena Sathingas, of 9000 tons, which was torpedoed early on Sunday morning, and who were landed at a small Irish fishing village yesterday afternoon, were sufficiently…
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Captain Thirlsaway newly appointed Commissioner for Sea Scouts, is being given excellent support by the special Sea Scout Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Soldiers Wreck Hotel in Canada
Marching four abreast, 120 soldiers, in uniform, invaded the Riviera Hotel, at Toronto (Ontario), and wrecked the entire lower floor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Was a Decoy Steamer Why The Baldur Was Scuttled (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, Feb. 21
According to reliable information reaching London the German ranker Baldar which it will be recalled settled herself at the time of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion at Factory Seven Buildings Wrecked (“Mercury” Service) New York. Feb, 22
Two persons were killed and 14 Injured when a series of explosions wreaked seven building at the Triumph Explosives Incorporated plant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Rams U-boat Four More Destroyed (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, February 28
Reports are [?] London that four more U-boats have been [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazis Seize Steamer Two More Ships Sunk London Feb. 27
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Planes Bomb Steamer 108 Passengers Missing. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
German planes bombed the steamer Domala, carrying 301 British and Indian passengers, whom Germany had released…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazi Bomber Wrecks Three Belgian Planes Serious Breach of Neutrality (“Mercury” Services) London, March 3
Indignation has swept over Belgium at the news that three Belgian fighter planes were shot down by a German Dornier 17 bomber, which was unmistakably over Belgian territory. The Incident is regarded as one of the most serious since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mistaken for Nazi R.A.F. Plane Wrecked (“Mercury” Service) London, March 3
The Air Ministry announced to-night: “As a result of mistaken identity, one of our own aircraft was accidentally shot down by a fighter in the neighbourhood of Gravesend this afternoon.”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Premises Wrecked
It is reported from Stockholm that the Communist Party building and newspaper office at Lulea (on the Gulf of Bothnia) have been burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lost Airliner Wreckage in Sea (“Mercury” Service) London, March 4
Wreckage of the imperial Airways liner Hannibal, which disappeared on a flight from India to England, has been located…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Nazi Freighter Scuttled Italian Steamer Bombed (“Mercury” Service) London, March 8/
Another German steamer has been scuttled. An Italian vessel was bombed and set on fire by a Nazi plane in. the North Sea. one of the crew being killed rind three others injured Nazi bombers, according to a German claim, sank or severly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Steamer Set on Fire Intercepted by British Cruiser. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
The Admiralty announces that the German steamer Hanover, of 5600 tons, was set on fire and abandoned by the crew, after being intercepted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor-ship Founders Off Tasmania Crew's Night Ordeal in Lifeboat
The Union Steamship Company's new motor-ship Kahika (1700 tons) foundered off West Point, Marrawah (Tas.), at 9 o'clock on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck Rock Motor Ship Wrecked MELBOURNE, Friday
The belief that the motorship Kahika (1537 tons) struck , a submerged rock was expressed by the master, Captain D. M Keith in evidence at…
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