Samoan Clipper Missing. Wreckage Found
Pan-American Airway's Sikorsky flying boat, Samoan Clipper, with a personnel of seven, is missing on her flight between Pago Pago and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
25 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Samoan Clipper. Destroyed by Fire. Captain and Crew All Dead. Petrol Was Ignited. Oil Pools Led to Wreckage. Washington Inn 12
The giant Sikorsky flyingboat, named the Samoan Clipper, bound from Pago Pago to Auckland, New Zealand, has been destroyed by fire,…
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Two sailors, when they had finished their naval service, opened a restaur-ant in a small market town. Bill did the cooking while Jack waited at table…
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A fire was discovered number one hatch of the steamer Hunter about five o'clock this morning, when the vessel, carrying passengers and…
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I watched them tearing a building down, A gang of men in a busy town, With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell…
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The Burns Philp steamer Morinda, 2025 tons, is ashore off Malo Islands, in the New Hebrides, and preparations are being made to disembark…
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The police were called in last night to suppress a fight on board the steamer Thistleford at Miller's Point between several members of the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Admella" Wreck
A story that Mr. Guy Wells, of Adelaide, is to tell on Tuesday night next, May 3rd, at 9.45, concerns the wreck of the Admella. This sensational tale…
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A message from Brisbane states that the motorship Bingara is ashore badly damaged on Spitfire Reef, 540 miles from Brisbane, near the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire King Wreck. Anniversary To-day
Mr. George Ricketts, who is visiting the Manning, has recalled the fact that to-day (Saturday) is the anniversary of the wreck of the Fire King, on the…
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London news says that a report from Erivan, the capital of Armenia, describes, through the Moscow correspondent of the "Manchester…
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General View of the Steamer…
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On Wednesday last a very smart and trim 12-ton ocean-going ketch anchored in Trial Bay, commanded by Mr. J. R. Figgis, Vice-Commodore of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Thorp Bay Bombed. Barcelona, 20638
Another British steamer, the Thorp Bay, was bombed in Barcelona Harbour to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Skipper's Adventures AND The Home on the Cliffs (Published by Arrangement with N.S.W. Bookstall Company. Ltd.) (Copyright.) Chapter Xvi. The Wreck of the "Mary Ellen."
Bully Hayes, the pirate, when he selected this secret resort of his, had shown not only astuteness, but downright good taste. Pinnacle Island,…
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Tinonee, March 30, 1872: The steamer arrived on the Manning this week—on Wednesday. The passengers on board were: Mrs…
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Tinonee, March 30, 1872: The "Platypus" is bar-bound on the Macleay, and in consequence the Judge and Crown Prosecutor were…
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Mrs. Mary Ann Gogerley, who has died at Forster aged 89, was probably the first person in Sydney to know of the wreck of the Dunbar at…
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Among the recipients of awards for bravery made by the Royal Shipwreck Relief and Humane Society of N.S.W. at its annual meeting on Monday was a…
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A fire broke out this morning in the bottom of No. 2 hold of the Japanese steamer Yae Maru in Walsh Bay. Six wharf labourers were…
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