85th. Anniversary Of The Wreck Of Dunbar
To-day is the 85th anniversary of the wreck of the sailing ship Dunbar at The Gap. South Head. Sydney. This wreck is the best…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
Nazis Used Wrecked Pilots As "Bait" Newcastle Pilots in Sea Drama
The using or men as bait is merely one method adopted by the Germans in this war and an instance of the brutal plan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blacks Find Wrecked Kittyhawk
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday.—Wreckage of a Kittyhawk that had Iain in the bush for more than six months since it was shot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tank Goes Ashore in Solomons
One of the U.S. Marines' amphibious tanks goes ashore on Guadalcanal Island, in the Solomons. These fighters helped to wipe out the Japanese force on the island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked in Collision
The collision between two trains at Wallarobba, near Dungog, late on Wednesday night, caused this damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Wreck Fast U.S. Express
CHICAGO, Monday.—Travelling at 85 miles an hour downhill nearing Omaha (Nebraska), the Zephyr Express was rocked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twenty Houses Wrecked When Balloon Crashed
LONDON, Tuesday. — Twenty houses were wrecked and scores of people had narrow escapes when a drifting barrage balloon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yugoslav Patrols Wreck Railways
LONDON. Sunday. — Yugoslas patriots have in the past week blown up railway lines in Coratin including a section of the main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. to Wreck Buildings for Scrap Steel
NEW YORK, Wednesday: New York City is to undertake a vast demolition project as part of the scrap metal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in Steamer
A steamer, with smoke rising through a hold was brought into an Australian port last night by two tugs, which picked up the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer's Dash for Port with Fire in Hold
When cargo in one of its holds caught on fire last night, a steamer made a dash for an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rumanian Steamer Lost
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The Rumanian steamer Vitorul, with 120 Jewish refugees bound for Turkey on board, has been lost in a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft Wrecks Career
LONDON.—"A moment of madness" has wrecked the career of a railway police sergeant at Euston in the running for inspector,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mountainous Seas Pound Waterfront Beach Damage; 80 Boats Wrecked at Tuggerah
Mountainous seas accompanying the recent rain pounded the Newcastle waterfront and caused damage on all beaches. A terrific sea crashed into Tuggerah Lakes and widened…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal From Old Wrecks Strews Stockton Beach
TONS of coal and timber believed to be from 50-year-old wrecks were strewn over Stockton Beach yesterday by heavy seas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boat Capsized, Man Missing Girl Swam Ashore At Lake
When the boat in which he was failing with his daughter capsized on Lake Macquarie early last night, Peter Kane, a resident of Belmont,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seamen Absent From Steamer One Sent to Gaol
Charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court yesterday under the National Security Regulations with having,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The Baby Is on Our Beach" Council to Remove Wreck
More than two years ago the coastal steamer, Maianbar, was wrecked on Nobbys Beach. Since then it has been sold to several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saved Girl In Wreckage
LONDON: In the light of a fire during a bombing raid, Albert Aslett a Wandsworth stretcher party leader, saw a girl pinned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saw Airman Swim Ashore
CAIRO, Monday.—At 6 p.m. on Saturday I watched an RAF fighter crash into the Mediterranean about three miles from…
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