Wrecked Airliner Salvaged Sydney
The Douglas airliner Pengana has been salvaged from Cook's River. It will be sent to Melbourne for repairs…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 14
Ambition May Wreck Marriage
Dear Dorothy Dix,—but I sometimes despair. I am I am married to a fine young man, bitious. He is inclined to rest on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GUSTS 55 Miles an Hour Westerly Wind Sweeps District Steamer on Mudbank
A howling westerly wind, with gusts that reached 55 miles an hour, swept Newcastle yesterday. It was calm in the early morning, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →German Airmen Shot Down Washed Ashore in Rubber Dinghy LONDON, October 19
Two German airmen were washed ashore at Whitby (Yorkshire), in a collapsible rubber dinghy, and were arrested. They were shot down in Tuesday's raid. One…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →U.S. Liner Nearly Foundered Struck by Hurricane in Atlantic New York, October 22
The United States liner President Harding (13,869 tons) nearly foundered when she was struck by a terrific hurricane in the Atlantic on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →More Neutral Ships Sunk 69 Perish When German Mine Patrol Boat Blows Up Armed British Steamer Fought U-boat for Four Hours (Australian Associated Press) LONDON, October 22
Three more neutral ships were sunk at the week-end. A Swedish ship was sunk in the North Sea, a Norwegian tanker was sunk by an explosion while en route from Rumania to England in ballast, and a Rumanian tanker is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Left England in Convoy Melbourne
A cargo steamer which has arrived safely at Melbourne was one of 16 vessels convoyed by destroyers and aircraft after leaving Liverpool on September 15…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Tourists Injured on Atlantic Steamer New York
The 12 persons who were injured when the liner President Harding who struck by a wave during a hurricane in the Atlantic are in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stop Press Greek Steamer Sunk. London, October 24
A Greek steamer of nearly 6000 tons was sunk in the North Sea to-day by a German submarine. Fifteen members of her crew were landed in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Swedish Steamer Sunk in North Sea Engineer and Fireman Drowned (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, October 23
The Swedish steamer Albania (1241 tons) has been sunk in the North Sea by an explosion, believed to have been due to a submarine…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Seizure of U.S. STEAMER Fails to Raise War Fever American Reaction Other Ships Detained by Britain (Australian Associated Press.) New York, October 25
Possibly because after the sinking of the Athenia it is in the nature of an anti-climax, the capture of the United States steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →50 Dead in German Submarine U-boat Wreck Washed Up Off Kent London
The shattered wreck of a German submarine has been found washed up on the Goodwin Sands. Salvage crews and divers worked on the wreck all yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U-boat Wreck Found Further Proof of British Success No Explanation Yet London, October 27
It is revealed that Great Britain's conduct of the war on the sea, land, and in the air has been even more successful than the official announcement had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →British Steamer Sunk Explosion Without Warning LONDON, October 31
The Cairn Line cargo steamer Cairnmona (4666 tons) was sunk without warning. Three of the crew are missing. Forty-one others were landed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Aero Club Claim on Pilot of Wrecked Plane Melbourne
Arising out of a crash at Hopetoun, the Royal Victorian Aero Club is claiming £530 damages against Cornelius Alfris, a cafe proprietor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shock for Shop Tenants Double-decker Bus Wrecks Awning Passengers Uninjured
A double-decker omnibus touched the edge of a cantilever awning in front of a shop in Pacific Highway, Adamstown, last night, and wrecked it…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ashore Off Orkneys Norwegian Steamer Abandoned LONDON, November 5
The Norwegian steamer Mim has run ashore off the Orkneys while on her way to the British contraband control station at Kirkwall. She was being navigated by…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Steamer Sunk in North Sea Explosion Kills Two of Crew London
The British steamer Carmarthen Coast (961 tons) has been sun kin the North Sea by an explosion which killed the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Channel Steamer Was Not Menaced Air Att[?]ory Officially Denied LONDON
Reports that a German bomber attacked a French cross-Channel steamer, on which there were 90 passengers, are declared officially to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Steamer Was Not Bombed London, November 12
The Admiralty version of the "bombing" of the French Channel steamer at the week-end shows that a French plane, uncertain of its position, crossed over…
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