Twenty-seven Days in Lifeboat Buenos Aires, October 23
Ten Greek sailors have arrived here aboard a British ship. They were picked up after drifting for 27 days in an open boat, as a consequence of the…
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Steamer Torpedoed Stockholm. Oct. 25
The steamer Janus was torpedoed on October 20. British warships saved 33 [?] of the crew of 37…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plane’s Head-on Attack on Steamer London, November 6
Captain Brown, commander of the Windsor Castle, has revealed that the ship had a narrow escape when a German plane dropped four high…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Brought to Our Front Door Another Steamer Mined Two Sinkings Within Few Hours of Each Other One Suggestion that a U-Boat is in Australian Waters MELBOURNE
The war has been brought to Australia's front door with the sinkings by mines, within a few hours of each other, of two freighters—a British (unnamed), and an American steamer, the City of Rayville, 6000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Escaped Germans Wellington (N.z..)
Advice has been received from London that the 17,060 ton steamer Rangitikei is safe. She was reported to have been shelled in the Atlantic. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paddle-steamer Shoots Down Raider (British Official Wireless) LONDON, November [?]
An Admiralty communique states that the paddic mine-sweeper South Sea shot down one enemy aircraft which attacked her his morning. There…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →6000-Ton Steamer on Rocks At Barwon Heads Waves Breaking Over It Melbourne
Believed to have been making for the shelter of the Bluff, Barwon Heads during a violent gale which swept Bass strait, a vessel of about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Sink Japanese Steamer Shanghai, November 22
A raiding party comprising members of the Chinese Fourth Route Army boarded a Japanese freighter on the Yangtze river, captured two officers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ship Ashore Passengers and Crew Saved Incident on Victorian Coast
The passengers and crew of the A.U.S.N. Orungal (5826 tons), which went ashore at Barwon Heads on Thursday night, near the entrance to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Steamer At Deniliquin 49 years Ago
THE paddle steamer, “The Pioneer,” about 42 feet long and 15 feet beam arrived at Deniliquin on September 3, 1891, from Gulpa sawmill, and later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Survivors Picked Up From Steamer London, November 24
Nine Dutch refunce, and 20 seamen were lost when the steamer Enrynicdon was torpedoed in the Atlantic. A warship picked up 64 survivors, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Romance Wrecked After Two Months Sydney
Mr. Justice Halse Rogers reserved decision in the Divorce Court to-day in, the restitution suit against a 10-year-old wife. The judge, after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Vessels Blown Ashore Darwin
Two ’ships were blown ashore in a fierce squall which struck Darwin shortly before sunset. They were a 5000-ton freighter and a naval vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →49,000-Ton Steamer Sunk Claim by Germans LONDON, December 4
According to a German claim a bomber has sunk a 49,000-ton steamer 640 miles north-west of Ireland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italians Wreck British P.O. TANGIER. December 3
Twenty Italians partly wrecked a British post office and a British business house here. There were no arrests…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crew of Steamer Saved London, December 4
All the crew has been saved from the Yugo-Slav steamer Cet[?]. which was sunk by a bomb off the west [?] of Ireland during this week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SEIZURE or Gold From British Steamer New York. December 9
The Domei (Japanese) agency has broadest that police of the Nanking regime boarded the- British steamer Hsinpokine. at Shanghai, and seized…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wrecked Steamer on Fire The Orungal Burned MELBOURNE
A fire broke out early to-day, on the stranded interstate passenger freighter Orungal, which ran aground at the Barwon Heads last month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“German Steamer Home” London, December 12
The Berlin radio claims that the steamer Helgoland which was anchored at Bogota (Columbia) after the outbreak of the war has arrived at a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dutch Destroyer Captures German Steamer Washington December 12
The Navy Department announces that the Dutch destroyer Vonkins Bergen captured the German steamer after the crew had attempted to…
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