Stories of Gallant Rescues From Torpedoed Ferry Steamer SYDNEY
Two of the three Midget Japanese submarines sunk in the attack on Sydney Harbor on Sunday night have been located on…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
36 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2
Men on Old Ferry Steamer Tell of Gallant Rescues Harbor Victim of Jap. Submarine Sydney
Divers who reconnoitred the bed of the Harbor yesterday discovered one of the three Japanese midget submarines which entered Sydney Harbor late on Sunday night, at rest in slime. It was intact with one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.O.S. By Pressing Button Portable Lifeboat Radio Signals 60 Times Over 200 Miles
Every ship in the British merchant service must now carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equip[?] in the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ship Torpedoed Medical Officer's Experiences Adrift in a Lifeboat
"You will be wondering where in the world I am, for I have cabled you from Bombay, written you from Kenya, asked a friend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Story Of Stricken Steamer And Gallant Crew Released
SYDNEY, Friday—When an Allied merchant ship was attacked by an enemy submarine off the N.S.W. coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Torpedoed Medical Officer's Experiences Adrift in a Lifeboat
"You will be wondering where in the world I am, for I have cabled you from Bombay, written you from Kenya. asked a friend with whom I graduated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tobruk Wrecked
LONDON, Thursday.—In the past six weeks nearly 1500 planes of the Allied Air Force in the Egyptian theatre of war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Life Proceeds Grimly in Battle-wreck Ed Stalingrad German Comment Gives Ground for Hope That the City Can be Saved LONDON
Marshal Timoshenko' s offensive operations north-west from Stalingrad are growing in both scope and strength, and compelling the Germans to divert more and more forces from the other Stalingrad sectors in order to protect their left flank…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Cargo Steamer's Hold SYDNEY
A cargo steamer with smoke issuing from her hold, was towed into an Australian port by two tugs late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Wrecks Doriot's Headquarters LONDON
A report from Vichy states that a bomb last night wrecked the headquarters of M. Dorlot's party in Paris. There were no casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Norwegian Steamer Sunk by Submarine Pretoria
A Greek steamer which [?] putting to seqa [?] at a submarine which torpedoed and sank a N[?]an steamer [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Submarine Story Attacked by Greek Steamer PRETORIA
A Greek steamer which was putting out to sea fired three shots at a submarine which torpedoed and sank a Norwegian steamer off Inyack Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allied Invasion of North Africa. British and Americans Swarming Ashore at All Desired Points Washington
A joint Army and Navy announcement that the Allied operations in the occupation of North Africa were planned and co-ordinated by British and American combined' Chiefs of Staff, has been issued. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, said that new operations were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires From Wrecked Turin Light Up the Alps Allied Bombers Meet With Little Opposition
LONDON, Wednesday—More 8,000 lb, bombs, many 4,000 pounders and tens of thousands of incendiaries were dropped on objectives in Tuna last night. Clear weather and skilfully placed flares made for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thirteen Days in Lifeboat
One of the greatest air and sea rescues of the war has been successfully concluded with the arrival in Britain, safe and well, of 73…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inverell Youth Wrecked Colin Madigan on the Armidale
During the Christmas holidays it became known that the Australian minesweeper Armidale had been sunk by enemy planes from Timor Among…
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