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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New England · Shipwrecks & the sea
Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
29 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
Home-made Steamer
When cooking potatoes and a second vegetable and you haven't a Steamer, place your potato saucepan on the gas without a lid on top…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ferry Steamer in Trouble SYDNEY
When the propellor of the ferry steamer Curl Curl fouled an object in the harbour last night while travelling from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frozen to Death at Oars of Lifeboat CLEVELAND
"I will never forget that night as long as I live," said Navy Signalman, Robert Weihart, whose vessel first reached the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Norwegian Steamer Sunk by Germans (A.A.P. News). LONDON
Twelve “British agents” seized the Norwegian steamer Tromsoeund in a Flord on on Sunday and attempted to navigate the vessel to Britain, says…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From Bismarck Sea Battle Small Parties Survivors Are Drifting Ashore
Small parties of survivors from the Japanese ships sunk in the Bismarck Sea are drifting ashore. Fifty-five reached the coast of New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vandals Wreck Kindergarten
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Co[?]on Fleece Kindergarten, in Chippendale, was wrecked by vandals during the week-end for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bodies of Three Army Men Found in Wrecked Plane Two Other Men Found Wandering in the Jungle
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The bodies of three army men were found in a wrecked plane which disappeared nearly a fortnight ago in the jungle in a northern operational centre…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →41 Windows Broken by Hail Gardens Wrecked; Birds Killed
One of the most devastating hail storms in the history of the district was experience at Glen Elgin on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rotterdam Raid Damage 1000 Houses Wrecked American Air Force's Record
LONDON, Thursday.—It is officially announced that Mosquito bombers this afternoon bombed the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Green Plant Bug Wrecks Gardens
The green plant bug has been responsible for hundreds of pounds of damage in Glen Innes home gardens in recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two U S. Sailors "Adrift" Ashore Perth
Two United States sailors, who were fugitives, were captured without resistance about 40 miles from Perth yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Capitol “The Big Store” and “Wrecking Crew”
Those madcap Marx Brothers are loose again in “The Big Store,” which wall be screening at the Capitol Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Battle of Germany Air Force Carries War To Reich Bombers' "Methodical Wrecking" LONDON
The unprecedented activity of Allied air forces operating from Britain and elsewhere last week is no longer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Spreads Havoc In Ruhr Valley War Plants Wrecked by Wall of Water Mohne And Eder Dams Bombing Confounds Germans
LONDON, Tuesday.—Great floods are still rearing down the Ruhr valleys. Reconnaissance pholographs reveal that the great havoc created by the breaching of the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany is still spreading…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage From N.Z Flying Boat ?
AUCKLAND, Thursday.—The New Zealand at Department received advice that wreckage, believed to be that of the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Attacks Isolating Sicily Lifelines and Installations Wrecked Island Under Constant Rain of Bombs LONDON
A powerful Allied air force, striking heavily, is determinedly cutting railways that are Sicily life lines—her links…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Destroyers Sunk Transport Wrecked By Allied Bombers From Our Correspondent Somewhere in Australia
Ninety-four tons of bombs were dropped on Japanese installations on the Salamaua Isthmus and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What Invasion Means. Getting Men and Supplies Ashore
Britain and the United Nations have had to learn the technique of seaborne invasion only during the three years since…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Comes Down From the Clouds
The launching of the first airborne lifeboat was described in a BBC Radio Newsreel By a member, of the Hudson crew that dropped it And…
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