Profitable Deal Purchase of Saros Wreck MELBOURNE
D. Allan, a Mallacoota fisherman, who paid £70 for the freighter Saros, which was wrecked near Cape Everard light house made a profitable deal, After…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16
Bomb for Japanese Steamer Recovered Near Vessel Seattle
Customs officers and coastguardsmen found a suit case filled with dynamite and a time dock floating 220ft. from the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Develops a List Bombo Battered by Heavy Seas Sydney
Battered by big seas on the way up the coast to-day, the steamer Bombo. with a cargo of blue metal, developed a list on tho voyage from Kiama…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bomb Recovered Near Japanese Steamer Arrested Man's Story Seattle, January 22
Customs officers and coastguardsmen found a suit case filled with dynamite and a time clock, floating 220ft. from the Japanese steamer Hiye Maru (11,621…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bakery Wrecked Fire After Explosion Wellington (N.z.)
All explosion thought to be due to gases, wrecked the Walhi bakery early yesterday morning. The five-ton oven front was blown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not Yet Recovered Woman Who Fell from Steamer Straight Course to Rescue Brisbane
Miss Nell Buckingham, who was rescued by the Maudhui on Saturday morning after she fallen from that vessel off Sandy Cape and floated for 2½ hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck Property Safebreakers in Sydney SYDNEY
Safebreakers at the week-end caused considerable damage to premises they had robbed. After obtaining only a few pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Steamer Stopped by Rebel Warship Destroyer to Aid London
The British steamer Sheaf Crest, bound to Spain, was stopped today by a Spanish rebel warship, says a Gibraltar message…
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Life-savers accepted great risks to rescue two men at Whale Beach this afternoon after heavy seas had wrecked the 30ft. launch Dee…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Films From Wreck Skilfully Restored in France Tragedy Off Iceland Coast London, January 26
Five films found by him half-buried in sand on the coast of Iceland, within three miles of the wreck of Charcot's vessel, Pourquoi Pas, on September 16,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Huge Air Coup Claimed by the Japanese Wrecked 210 Machines of Chinese Japanese Troops Ordered To Behave Better SHANGHAI
Great destruction of Chinese 'planes is claimed by the Japanese Naval spokesman. He claims that Japanese 'planes, raided Nanchang and destroyed 203 'planes on the ground. They also…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ice Jam Wrecks Huge Bridge at Niagara Falls New York
Unloosed by a phenomenal thaw, an Ice jam 100 feet high below Ningara Palls crushed the piers of the 5,000,000 dollars International Bridge and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Cargo Steamer for Newcastle Llandaff Due on
The Liandaff, a new steamer owned by Evan Thomas, of London, is due at Newcastle on Friday to the agency of McIlwraith McEacharn, Limited…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fierce Gale Empire Pavilion Wrecked Near Glasgow LONDON, January 29
A 90 mile an hour gale ravaged the British Isles to-day. It demolished 80 per cent. of the partially-constructed Canadian Pavilion at the Empire…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lifeboat Overturns Survivors of Shipwreck LONDON, February 1
There were scenes of heroism on the rocky fringe of St. Ives Harbour, when a lifeboat, returning with 23 members of the crew of the wrecked Panamese…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Compensation Claim Fails Sequel To Wreck Off Nobbys SYDNEY
After hearing a witness at the Workers' Compensation Court today describe how he set off an a first voyage in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreck Off Nobbys Compensation Case Fails "Crying Fits at Night" Sydney
Bernard Charbish Briant, 42, of Collaroy, who was in charge of the fishing boat Joyron when it was wrecked off Nobbys, Newcastle on July 7, 1937, with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Racing Schooner at Sydney on Voyage From New Zealand Sydney
The schooner Aurora Star, which set put to race from Auckland to Hobart lost month, arrived in Sydney this afternoon on a lieusrely cruise…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Steamer Followed by Warplanes Off Spain Warship Protection? London, February 8
The London steamer Peckham (4434 tons), which is on her way to Barcelona from Odessa, sent out a wireless message stating that she was being followed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer Wrecked Off Germany Others Imperilled in Storm Berlin
Responding to an S.O.S. call during a storm off the German coast, the cruiser Deutschland was unable to reach the French steamer Baoul, which was…
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