Nazi Steamer Disguised Was to Have Joined Raider LONDON, November 21
The German liner Windhuk (16,662 tons) is reported to be disguised as a British vessel, says the Cape Town correspondent of the British United Press…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
272 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 14
Crops Damaged in North Grain Shed Wrecked TAMWORTH
Severe storms, with heavy hail, torrential rain, and wind of hurricane force swept parte at the North to-day. In the Boggabri district considerable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More British Sea Losses Trawler and Steamer Sunk by U-boats LONDON, November 23
More British sea losses are reported. The Geraldus, formerly the Candle Stone Castle, of Cardiff, is stated to have been sunk last night off the east coast…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Death Broadcast in North Sea 200 Mines Washed Up Latest Victim Is Steamer Sunk at Anchor in English Waters London
Evidence is mounting hourly of Hitler's crazy irresponsibility toward world commerce and innocent non-combatants. So recklessly has he strewn the North Sea with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drifted Hours in Lifeboat South Australian Survivor of Athenia ADELAIDE
Mrs. Aimee Edgecombe, the only South Australian survivor of the liner Athenia, sunk by the Germans at the outset of the war, returned to Adelaide yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pilot Cutter Wrecked Twenty-two Men and Boys Lost LONDON, November 27
Twenty-two men and boys were drowned yesterday when the Liverpool No. 1 pilot cutter was wrecked north of the Mersey, near Southport. Another man is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ship From Newcastle Ashore in N.z. All Crew Safe Slight Hope of Salvage
The Newcastle branch of the Union Steamship Company was advised to-day that the company's vessel S.S. Waikouaiti…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LIFEBOAT "V.C.'s" 2 Rescues London, Nov. 10
Battered and partly smashed after 22 hours in a south-easterly gale during which she rescued the crews of two vessels in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Disappeared From Steamer Perth
The sea between Roebourne and Claremont was searched last night by a coastal steamer. A passenger on the vessel, Michael Collins, disappeared overboard,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Another Steamer Sunk LONDON, November 29
The British steamer, Rubislaw (1023 tons), laden with cement, struck a mine off a south-east coastal port, and sank in two minutes. Thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Reply to Export Embargo Germany Seizes British Coal Carried by Danish Steamer (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, November 28
A Stockholm message states that a German warship seized the Danish steamer Cyril while she was awaiting a pilot outside Stockholm. The Cyril was carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Waikouaiti Fast Near Bluff May Be Total Wreck Crew and Mails Safe Wellington (N.z.)
The 3926-ton freighter Waikouaiti struck the rocks of Dog Island, near The Bluff, last night. She is still hard and fast, and may become a total wreck. No…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Danish Ship Strikes a Wreck London
The Danish three-masted schooner Grethe (264 tons) has been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, apparently through striking a submerged wre[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Danish Schooner Wrecked London, December 3
The Danish schooner Grethe was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands (off the east coast of Kent) on Thursday. The schooner apparently struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Steamer Torpedoed Three of Crew Known Dead LONDON, December 5
The British steamer Horsted (1670 tons) was torpedoed off the east coast of England, it was announced to-day. Three of the crew are dead and five…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Steamer Missing Another Danish Vessel Mined London
The British steamer Huntsman (8196 tons) is reported missing and is presumed lost. The Danish, steamer Ove Toft (2135…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survived Two Shipwrecks Dutch Crew's Ship Torpedoed Rescue Vessel Went Aground (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, December 8
Survivors of the Dutch motorship Tajandoen, which was tropedoed in the English Channel, again almost lost their lives when…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Neutral Steamer Brings Aliens to Australia Sydney
The greatest passenger list of mixed nationalities to arrive in Sydney since the outbreak of war has been landed from a neutral liner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire on Steamer at Brisbane Deep in Hold Among Wool BRISBANE, Monday Morning
Early this morning a fire broke out on an oversea steamer berthed at Hamilton Wharf. Fire brigades were quickly at the wharf,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Estonian Steamer Sunk by Unknown U-boat HELSINKI, December 11
An unknown submarine sunk the Estonial steamer Kassa, which is not listed at Lloyd's. Two of the crew were injured and another member is missing…
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