Bombs Wreck Hospital Remarkably Light Casualties (“Mercury” Service) LONDON, Sept, [?]
During last night’s [?] a heavy bomb hit one of London’s oldest hospitals. It wrecked the medical block and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
128 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 7
German Submarine Sinks Irish Steamer British Steamer Also Torpedoed
A German submarine fired on and sank the Irish steamer Luimneach (1074 tons) in the Atlantic on September 4. Nine members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Italians Make Their First Blunder Heavy Pounding R.A.F. and Artillery Attack Drastic Wreckage London, September 19
While the Italians are consolidating supplies and do not attempt to advance from Sidi Barrani, the bomberdment from three British services has intensified. The R.A.F. is now using planes of modern long vange…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bodies Washed Ashore
British submarines, in addition to experimental exercises by German troops at embarkation, are responsible for many German bodies being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refugee Steamer Sunk
To-day's broadcast tells of a British steamer torpedoed in the Atlantic on a voyage to Canada. Over 300 lives were lost including 100…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany Kills the Goose War Wrecks Food Supplies
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Survivors’ Ordeal Eight Days Adrift in Lifeboat (A.a.p Service) LONDON [?]
“I was the [?] Father [?] for the [?] to was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Survivors' Ordeal Eight Days Adrift in Lifeboat
"I was the first to see the Sunderland flying boat. Father O'Sullivan began praying for the plane to see us, and all the boys joined in. A seaman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Survivors' Ordeal Eight Days Adrift in Lifeboat London
"I was the first to see the Sunderland flying-boat. Father O'Sullivan began praying for the plane to see us, and all the boys joined in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BLUEY & CO The Wrecker
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Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fields Knee-Deep In Wreckage Raiders Heavy Toll (Australian Associated Press) London, October 3
“Fields in South-east England are knee-deep in smashed German aircraft,” said an R.A.F. chief. Aeronautical experts visited one depot filled with these wrecks recently, resembling a graveyard of an Armada, m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Days at Sea in Launch Fishermen Picked Up by Steamer
Declaring that searching planes flew over them while the disabled launch was being tossed about in mountainous seas many miles off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Liner Mystery. Wreckage of Plane Found
Almost invariably when wreckage of aeroplanes is found in remote parts of the country or washed up on the seashore the mystery of the long lost…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Reef American Schooner Hull Awash Brisbane
[?] its bull awash the [?] American scbooer Director 11 is around on a reff in Port Curts Every member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.A.F. Blazes Trail of Wreckage and Fire (Australian Associated Press) London October 18
Details from the reliable sources quoted by the Air Ministry’s new service indicate the effectiveness of R.A.F raids against Berlin The main gas workers was hadly damaged and the G.P.O almost gutted Several factories employed in vital war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Battered Brisbane
Following a strong south-east wind which sprang up early on Sunday morning, the American schooner Director II., which brought a party of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible. Ordeal in Open Boat Steamer Sunk By Raider (A.A.P Service)
NASSAW (Sahamas) Oct 31 The story of the terrible ordeal of the survivors of a steamer which was sunk by a raider was revealed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yacht on Rocks Thirteen People Scramble Ashore SYDNEY
When the 25 ton auxiliary yacht, Scott Free, was driven on the rocks near South Head on Saturday afternoon, thirteen people clambered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo Damage Thursday's Storm. Streets Littered by Wreckage
The storm which struck Dubbo at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday last, greatly damaged scores of modern homes. Hotels, offices, shops, and factories…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Hopeless Wreck” Nazi Claim Refuted (A.A.P. Service) LONDON, November 5
The British Admiralty also announces that the 15,798-ton Union Castle liner Windsor Castle, which Berlin claimed had been successfully…
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