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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
210 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 11
The enemy raider operating in the Tasman Sea is now believed to have sunk two vessels from N.S.W. It is apparently using surprise tactics disguised as an innocent merchantman of a friendly country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JERVIS BAY. Tuesday.—Harry Measham, 50, assistant, manager of Anron's Hotel, Sydney, was drowned when a fishing launch was washed ashore in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, September 4.—The Eirean auxiliary steamer Loch Ryan (210 tons) has arrived in port with its deckhouses and masts blasted off by bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Greater Newcastle Council wants the wreck of the steamer Mainnbar moved from Nobbys Beach as soon as possible. The Works Committee, which met…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAMAGE — A Nazi bomb demolished this house in a London suburb. Firemen and A.R.P, officers view the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The arrival in Sydney of a Canadian five-masted topsail schooner, with a full cargo of lumber, after a voyage of 83 days from Vancouver, is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Eighty-three days out from Vancouver, the Canadian five masted too-sail schooner City of Alberni arrived in Sydney to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, September 10.—The sounding of the warning sirens in last night's first raid prevented rescue squads from saving the life of Nurse Barbara Mortimer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bombs were dropped on Buckingham Palace in the course of a raid on London this morning, it is officially announced. The King and Queen were in the Palace at the time, but they were not hurt…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bomb wreckage.—A house in the London area hit by a German bomb.—Picture by Clipper Mail…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Her food supplies depleted by years of sacrifice to arms, making, and further threatened by the transfer of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unless shipping space can be secured, export slaughterings will cease at the Abattoir within the next fortnight. This is stated by the General Manager…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The tug Hero, presumably with the body of the engineer still trapped inside, remains on the bottom of Sydney Harbour. The Hero which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A woman and her three-year-old son, with their puppy and budgerigar safe in their shelter, where they look refuge during a recent air raid on England. A bomb demolished their house. Picture by air mail…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exposed for hours to a 40 to 50-mile-an hour gale and waves that often broke over the deck, the wreek of the North Coast steamer Maianbar on Nobbys…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The water police to-day recovered the body of John Downie, 65, of Pearson-street, Balmain, engineer of the Hero, which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work on the Maianbar wreek at Nobbys Beach has been put back over a month by the cyclone which swept Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GRAFTON, Friday.—Search planes flew over them while their disabled launch was being tossed about in mountainous seas many miles off the coast, said Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Monday.—A three-masted schooner which left New York last February is now in the Brisbane River. The vessel is on a two years' voyage,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →London offices blasted Firemen playing hoses on the burning debris of offices fired by bombs during an early morning raid—Picture by Air Mail…
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