Plane Wrecked On Flood Relief Work Pilot Escapes Uninjured Darwin
While undertaking a 325-miles flight from Darwin to Roper River police station, a Darwin airman, Roy Edwards, had to…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
99 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 5
The Lifeboat Coxswain
London children's essays on the lifeboat and lifeboatmen included gems in descriptions of the coxswain. One youngster imagined "a beefy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Battered Launch Comes Ashore Believed to Have Capsized in Heavy Sea Occupant Feared Drowned SYDNEY
It is feared that Claude George Burr (38), a resident of Bondi, has been drowned. The launch in which he went…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Schooner Drinkers are a Lot of Mugs" SYDNEY
Mr. J. Creagh, Archdeacon Hammond's police court missioner for drunks, commenting on the schooner drinking contest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Against U-boats Four Sunk in Few Days Steamer Rams One Off Shetlands
Four U-boats have been sunk in the last few days, according to unofficial reports. Two were accounted for in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cricket Three Centuries - One Double - in Wreck of a Grade Attack College Declares At 2-399 And Defeats Westwood Uralla Beats East with Wickets to Spare
The first double century in New England A grade cricket this season was scored on Saturday. Playing for De La Salle against Westwood at West End Park, Bro. Florence compiled 205 not out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Torpedoed Steamer Loch Maddy LONDON
The steamer Loch Maddy was forpe[?] in the North Atlantic on Thursday. Thirty-five survivors were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's Yesterdays Death of J. H. Challis Schooner's Disappearance
One hundred and thirty-three lives were lost when the steamer Quetta, bound from Brisbane to London, struck an uncharted rock…
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Said a defendant in Sydney Traffic Court last week: "To find that I bad committed this offence was an absolute shock to me."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War at Sea U-boats Attack British Steamer in American Safety Zone? Washington
A submarine Attacked the British steamer Southgate while it was 300 miles north of Puerto Rico and 1,000 miles south-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ruthless Attack British Steamer Bombed LONDON
A ruthless attack on a British steamer carrying Indians repatriated from Germany has been launched by the German air force…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Nazi Horror Passenger Steamer Bombed LONDON
German planes bombed the steamer "Domala" carrying 301 British and Indian passengers whom Germany had released, and the Admiralty has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boat Swept Out to Sea Rescue by Lifeboat
Old man sea plays some [?]el tricks, to be sure. With your engine out of order and you very anxious to get home to tea…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deck Boy Takes Charge of Lifeboat
An l8-year-old deck boy, Malcolm Morrison, of Stornoway, chief town of the outer Hebrides, performed a magnificent feat of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Italian Steamer Bombed NAPLES
The Italian steamer "Amelia Lauro," which caught fire when bombed by Nazi 'planes in the North Sea, was laden with British coal, and had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →East Coast Pier Wrecked by German Mine "Pretty Kettle of Fish," Says Caretaker By Air Mail.) LONDON, February 3
Nobody was killed when a pier at an English east coast resort—it has 2,500,000 visitors every summer and a stair of 550—was…
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An 18-year-old deck boy, Maclcolm Morrison, of Stornoway, chief town of the outer Hebrides, performed a mag[?]cent feat of seamanship and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Steamer Scuttled in North Sea LONDON
The German strainer La Coruna was set afire and scuttled by her crew in northern waters on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Steamer Moves London
A German steamer, loaded with bauxite, has flipped out of one of the ports of Yugoslavia, and is making its may through Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horrible Sufferings Torpedoed Ship's Crew Lifeboat Adrift Four Days LONDON
The horrible sufferings of the crew of the steamer Stancliffe were revealed when a battered ship's lifeboat was swept up on…
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