Schooner Bound for Australia In Trouble LONDON
The two-masted schooner Volant, bound for Australia, with a number of passengers, was reported to be in difficulties three miles…
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First Big Post-war Steamer Launched London
The largest vessel built since the end of the war the 15,000-ton twin-screw turbine liner Corinthic, was launched today by Mrs Jordan (wife of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Albury Steamer Link With Adelaide Old Document Records Historic Event
Ninety-one years ago Captain George Johnston, commander or the steamship Albury, pioneered the river route from Adelaide to Albury. This historic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Links Buenos Aires and Melbourne MELBOURNE
Departure of the Dutch KPM vessel Straat Malakka from Melbourne for Buenos Aires yesterday made history because it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jap General Carries Ashore Kits of Australians BRISBANE
When the Westralia arrived from Kure, Borneo and Rabaul today a Japanese general carried ashore the kits of Australian soldiers. The general was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Smallpox Suspect on Steamer PERTH
ON the arrival of the steamer, Mulbera from India today, the Common wealth quarantine medical officer found board a woman passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Non-Use of Berths on Steamer Mr Calwell Replies To Criticism CANBERRA
The Stirling Castle had carried a full complement of civilian passengers allowed under peace-time conditions during its recent voyage to Australia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer on Wav to Australia Aground London
Lloyd’s reports that the British motor vessel Hopec, en route from Galveston to Australia, is aground on Corda Bank, about 300 miles north of Panama. The master…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dutch To Get Schooner Back CANBERRA
The Australian Government is handing back to the Dutch Government the small Dutch schooner, “Vima.” which with nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →295 Drown When Steamer Sinks Dares Salaam (Africa)
Only five persons were saved and 295 wore drowned when the Lake Nyassa steamer Vitya overturned and sank on Thursday during a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Former Resident Shipwrecked Ken Brougham's Experiences
After having been marooned on Balala Island, 30 miles from Ceduna, for five days, three shipwrecked fishermen were rescued on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paddle Steamer “Murrumbidgee” Leaves Hay
After spending three years in the district the paddle steamer, “Murrumbidgee” with barge “J. L. Roberts,” left his moorings at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane Searching For Disabled Ketch BRISBANE
A flying boat has left Cairns to search for an auxiliary ketch which is adrift in Torres Strait. Ketch Yalpa. with five men on board, was last reported to be drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Black” Steamer May Now Sail SYDNEY
After a delay of more than five weeks in port, SS Katoomba Is expected to sail from Sydney this week. Katoomba was declared “black” because the Maritime…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assistance Refused Dutch Steamer MELBOURNE
Although seamen declined tugboat assistance to the Dutch steamer Tasman, at Port Melbourne yesterday. Captain Eledeld got his ship away…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Battle Against Gale Small Ketch In Difficulties WOLLONGONG
Robert Stephen, of Nelson’s Bay, Port Stephens, and William Roberts, of Newcastle, were the crew of a small ketch which battled against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer’s Dash to Port With Sick Men Aboard AUCKLAND
The motorship, Port Fremantle, which had been bound for Brisbane, has been redirected to Auckland, and is speeding for New Zealand with two men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Land Party Reaches Wrecked Plane Some Survivors Seen New York
Making faster progress than had been expected over the rugged terrain, a land party this afternoon reached the wreckage of the Belgian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale In Britain Kills 13 People Three Ship’s Sunk; Four Driven Ashore Enormous Damage To Harvest LONDON
The death-roll of the great gale which swept the Channel and the south of England yesterday Before moving on to northern “Germany, numbered 13, and at least 52 people were injured, says the “Sunday Express.”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nightmare Voyage in Ketch SYDNEY
Two Australians with a crew of 10 Solomon Islanders had a nightmare journey from the Solomon Islands to Sydney in a leaking ketch at the…
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