Hit by Steamer Disabled Fishing Launch Occupants Escape Sydney
Tom Glazebroonk of Double Bay, and Jack Roberts, of Coogee, had a narrow escape from drowning early yesterday morning when the launch in which they…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 16
Search Resumed Missing R.A.F. Bomber Wreckage Seen in Hills London, February 27
The search tor the missing Wellesley bomber has been resumed, following at report that wreckage was seen in the Cheviots, near Langholm Dumfresshire)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Barren Search in Wilds for Missing 'Plane Newcastle Pilot Reported Find Of Wreckage LONDON
Search among the hills of the Anglo-Scottish border to-day for the missing Vickers-Wellesley bomber was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Iron Chieftain B.H.P. Cargo Steamer Another New Ship Due This Week
The fourth new steamer built abroad for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. is due at Newcastle on Thursday via night or Friday morning from Glasgow,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Iron Chieftain Due. This Afternoon New Steamer for B.h.p. Company
The Iron Chieftain, the fourth of the new steamers constructed for the Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd., is due at Newcastle at 4.30 p.m. to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Professional Wrecker
Mr. Reg. Cavanagh, who claims to have wrecked £50,000 worth of 'planes and cars in his career as a stunt man for film companies, arrived in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lifeboat Rescues Crew Indian Durbar Bruno Mussolini Relaxes
LIFEBOAT MEN rescuing the crew of the smack, Lucky Hit, from the rigging of the ship wrecked on the pier at Lowestoft (Suffolk.) SONJA HENIE, doing one of her leap, at an exhibition at the Madison Square Garden. New York…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Moscow Trial Great Britain's Alleged. Plotting More References Court Told of Plot to Wreck White Russia (Australian Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 4
Further sensational references ti Great Britain's alleged plotting in Russia were made at the resumption of the trial to-day of 21 Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Leviathan Goes Down to the Wreckers Hands New York, February 5
FROM the pride of launching, from blue riband races and the brilliance and glamor of the hey-days on the High Seas, to the modern ocean liner, comes all too soon the sad ending…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Survivors Taken Off Wrecked French Collier Volunteers From Cruiser Shanghai, March 7
After an all-day struggle in pounding sea, the cruiser Cape Town rescued six Europeans and 54 Chinese, including the captain and his little daughter, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Kooringa Mcllwraith, McEacharn's New Steamer First Voyage in May
McIlwraith, McEacharn Ltd. expect that their new steamer Kooringa, which is being built at Dundee for the Australian interstate cargo service, will be ready for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Crew Paid Off Demanded Extra Trimmer on Steamer SYDNEY
A dispute occurred to-day regarding the manning of the Union steamship Kalingo, which is due to sail for New Zealand tomorrow. Members of the crew demanded…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Launch Ablaze Family Gets Ashore on Dinghy SYDNEY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gray, of Spit-road, Mosman, with their son, John had to take to a dinghy yesterday, when their launch which war bought on Thursday, burst…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Steamer Pontypridd on First Visit
Due at Newcastle on Friday morning is the British tramp steamer Pontypridd (4458 tons), belonging to the Pontypridd Steamship Company…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →British Steamer Bombed by Rebels One Killed : Several Injured Barcelona, March 15
The British steamer Stanwell was bombed and act on fire at Tarragona (Northern Spain) this morning by General France's airmen. She is blazing…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Third Man Dies Bombing of British Steamer LONDON, March 15
A second member of the crew of the 700-ton British steamer Stanwell, which was bombed by rebel aircraft in Tarragona harbour has died, and M. Matson,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tramp Steamer Delayed
The British tramp steamer Pontypridd, which was to have arrived at Newcastle to-morrow, has been delayed and will not arrive until…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Steamer Torpedoed off Spain Now Burning Fiercely London, March 20
It is reported from Perpignan (France) that a British steamer, believed to be the Clifford, was torpedoed off Cape Cerbere, at the Mediterranean frontier of France…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Codicils to Well in Air Wreck Estate Of Woman From Newcastle SYDNEY
Retrieved from the airliner Cygnus, which crashed in the Mediterranean, two badly-discolored codicils of a will made…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Reef Steamer from Islands Badly Holed Forward Brisbane
The Deputy-Director of Navigation to-day received a message from Thursday Island stating that the South African Government's…
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