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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—A message from Darwin says that a lunched left Mornington Island mission at daybreak today to investigate the wreck of the Royal New Zealand Air. Force Mosquito bomber which was sighted off Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wing Commander B. B. O. B. Hoare, pilot of the R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito bomber which crashed on desolate Sydney Island in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAPETOWN, April 14.— The Greek steamer, George M. Livanos, 6483 tons, carrying 27,000 bales of wool from Australia for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, April 14.—The British steamer Viceroy (824 tons) hit a mine and sank off the Dutch coast. Eight British seamen, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, April 15. —Lloyds has received a report that the British steamer, Somerset, bound for Dunedin from Avonmouth,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, April 17—An official report places the death roll in a series of explosions which almost wrecked Texas City, as around 1200. The disaster, which followed an explosion in a ship carrying fertilisers, is rated America’s greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CALCUTTA, April 26.—The [?] is continuing for [?] India [?] Navigation Company’s vessel. Sir Harvey Adamson, 1770 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The R.A.F., after sending out two planes, has abandoned the search for the small British-Indian Steam Navigation Company's steamship, "The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Public interest in matters affecting returned soldiers appeared to be waning, and if the present drift continued the rehabilitation framing scheme would collapse entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“There’s many a slip betwist the cup and the lip” as backers of Young Veilmond realised when be moved up to Hedui half a furlong from home in the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday—Lost in a dance for that [?] the city and harbour early this morning the Sydney ferry [?] into the stern of the Dutch steamer, Abbekerk at Walsh Bay. There were 150 work[?] on the ferry which was going to Cockaton Dock but one was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thurs.—Two men were taken to Sydney Hospital after a brawle on the steamer J. Chamberlain at No. 9. wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MANILA, May 26. — Burned wreckage of President Rosas’ personal plane, which has been missing for a week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MANILA, May 28. A search party yesterday found [?] charged bodies near the wreckage of the Skymaster, “Lill Marlene,” on a slope of Mt…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, June 2.—After 21 years in exile, Abd-el-Krim, leader of the former Riff Republic, has escaped from the French and found sanctuary in Egypt. This almost legendary figure had been permitted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WELLINGTON (NZ). Tuesday.— The Minister for Public Works, Mr. Robert Simple, described the president of the New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flaming fuel spread across Los Angeles harbour channel yesterday threatening oil storage tanks, when an explosion flashed through a tanker as it was loading barrels of petroleum at the Shell Oil pier on Mormon Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea approaches…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TOWNSVILLE, Monday—The crew of the RMAS Lachine believe that the sunken ship they discovered is the Yongala, which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, July 9—Reports that a ”flying disc” had been found on a ranch at Roswell, New Mexico during the past week and had been banded over to the Army Air Force for investigation yesterday startled sceptics who had been…
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