Aussie Airman Swims Ashore
Compelled to make a forced descent ito the sea whilst completing his[?]nal aerobatics practice, Leading [?]craftsman Clive Rice, 26, swam…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
99 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 5
Wreckage From the Turakina? SYDNEY
A large quantity of wreckage washed ashore on the New Zealand coast near Auckland has been inspected by experts, who declare it to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life Light for Shipwrecked Floating Torch Throws Out Beam for 15 Hours
Seamen all over the world realise the value, in an emergency, of a life-saving jacket. Now, as a further aid to rescue work at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Ashore Violent Gale Raging SYDNEY
The inter-State steamer Orungal ran aground in a fierce gale near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner Aground Total Wreck Feared MELBOURNE
The Interstate liner Orungal, which is aground on a reef half a mile from Barwon Heads is being battered by high seas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Attacked In Atlantic New York
The Mackday radio has intercepted a message from the steamer Port Hobart stating that she was being shelled in North…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →STEAMER'S S.O.S. Being Shelled in North Atlantip New York
The Mackday radio intercepted a message from the steamer Port Hobart staling that she was being shelled in the North Atlantic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missing Steamer Attacked by Raider No Later News SYDNEY
The fate of the British cargo steamer Maimoa (10.123 tons), which sent out radio calls last week that she was being attacked by an enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LIFE - Light for Shipwrecked Floating Torch Throws Out Beam For 15 Hours
Seamen all over the world realise the value, in an emergency, of a lifeEaving jacket. Now. as a further aid to rescue work at night, a jacket…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Ships Ashore, Refloated Fierce Storm At Darwin DARWIN
Two ships, one of them a 5000-ton freighter, and the other a naval unit, were blown ashore when a fierce squall struck Darwin yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goorangai Wreck Second Body Recovered MELBOURNE
The body of engine-room Artificer C. W. Green was recovered yesterday from the wreck of the minesweeper Goorangai, near Port Phillip Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Drowned When Ship Sinks Off N.S. W. Coast After Explosion Survivors Cling to Wreckage for Hours R.A.A.F. Pilot's Brave Rescue Effort SYDNEY
When a small coastal cargo ship sank off the coast of New South Wales yesterday afternoon after an explosion, seven of the crew of 20 were drowned. The ship disappeared in three minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pilot, Down in Channel, Swims Seven Miless British Bomber Wrecked by Lightning Amazing Escape By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 15
The story of one of the most amazing escapes of the war was told this week by a Royal Air Force pilot officer, sole…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Mined Latest News Salvage Expected SYDNEY
The British oversea cargo vessel which struck a mine off the coast of South Australia on Saturday night is now being to[?]ed to port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buried Under Wreckage for 17 HOURS Ordeal For Hospital Patient A Rescue Squad At Work By Air Mail.) LONDON, October 19
A Londoner, aged 70, was this week rescued alive after he had been buried for 17 hours under the wreckage of three hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Holmwood Pieces of Timber Found SYDNEY
The Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr Fraser, has announced the finding of the first tangible evidence of the loss of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Seen Raider Rumour New York
The master of a Portugese freighter reports that he sighted an empty lifeboat, marked Hamburg. 800 miles off the coast of Portugal suggesting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Found End of German Raider? (Australian Associated Press) New York
The master of a Portuguese freighter reports that he sighted an empty lifeboat marked Hamburg 800 miles off the coast of Portgual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Churches Wrecked
Thirty-two of London's churches have been destroyed or made unusable as the result of air raids. Forty-seven have been seriously damaged,…
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