Port Kembla Dispute Mystery Surrounds Steamer's Movements SYDNEY
The steamer Dalfram is still at anchor at Five Island, off Port Kembla, and her next move seems to be shrouded in mystery…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
78 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 4
'Plane Wrecked MELBOURNE
The Royal Victorian Aero Club's Gypsy Moth 'plane crashed from 200 feet at Essendon Aerodrome and was almost completely wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire on Steamer LONDON
The New Zealand steamer Rimutaka, bound from Auckland to Panama, with 300 passengers and a full cargo, wirelessed from the South Pacific that a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Explosion Wrecks Newcastle Factory Four M&n Admitted to Hospital SYDNEY
Four persons were admitted to Newcastle Hospital early this morning, one in a critical condition, after an explosion at the Sanitarium…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strike on Steamer Passengers Delayed at Hobart SYDNEY
About 350 passengers on the Hud[?] Parker [?] Zealandia have been stranded in Hobart by a strike among [?] which began through a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Now Total Wreck SYDNEY, Later
The coastal steamer "Bellbowrie" is now a total wreck on the rocks at Green Point, South Maroubra. The vessel's back is broken just below the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked 'Plane's Movements Surrounded by Mystery Men Apparently Changed Seats Instructor Would Have Forbidden Flight SYDNEY
Considerable mystery surrounds the movements of a Taylor cub 'plane between its departure from Mascot on Saturday morning and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Shipwrecked Dictator' German Press Description of Roosevelt LONDON
The Berlin Press bitterly denounces President Roosevelt, describing him as a shipwrecked dictator and anti-Fascist No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Plane Wreckage North of Montague Island SYDNEY
Aviation authorities were informed to-day that the tattered strips of a silver-coated fabric, apparently from the wings of an aeroplane, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dinghy Washed Ashore Four Men Drowned N.Z. Fishing Tragedy Wellington (N.z.)
Thomas Haggerty (38), James Popehagen (34), Brank Rask (28) and Hilary Haggerty (11) are believed to have been drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pig Iron Watersiders Decide to Load Steamer Campaign Against Government SYDNEY
A stop-work meeting of waterside workers at Port Kembla today decided to load pig iron for Japan into the steamer Tymeric…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranded Steamer Court Gives Finding SYDNEY
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Killed Fell Down Steamer's Hold LAUNCESTON
Two [?] after he had commenced his first [?] job for five years France [?] 0 fell down the hold of the [?] Wear, and was kailed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's Yesterdays Anniversary of St. Patrick Wreck in Southern Ocean
To-day is St. Patrick's Day. the Irish patron saint being better known for his liberation of Ireland from vermin…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Steamer Held Up LONDON
The Admiralty announced that a Spanish warship stopped the British steamer Sandgate inside Spanish territorial waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flying Boat Total Wreck Damaged Mail Reaches Sydney SYDNEY
The flying boat, Corsair is believed to have been badly damaged early last week while landing on the Cough River. Africa. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Auxiliary Ketch in Trouble Strikes Series of Gales SYDNEY
The auxiliary ketch Hispaniola, in which George O'Brien, his wife and two sons recently left Sydney, intending to sail to San Francisco, put into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Splintered Wood, Twisted Steel Carriages Wrecked; Two Telescoped MELBOURNE
A train which was being shunted crashed into a line of 13 stationary carriages In the Siding at Jolimont railway yard on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yesterday's News Steamer Wrecked—State Finances—Price of Bricks—War Profits—North Australia—Narromine Murders—Defence Aviation—New loan
One hundred Chinese arregulars penetrated the heart of Canton bayoneted the three guards of the Japanese—owned bank of Talwan forced the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fog in Sydney Steamer Crashes Wharf SYDNEY
During [?] which [?] the harbour [?] the [?] Wanaka from [?]…
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