Rush for Passages by Schooner "Herald" Service
LONDON, March 14.—The 6ft. English-born actor, Edwin A. Cross, collected names at the rate of two a minute when he "opened shop"…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
147 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 8
Four-mast Steamer on Run Again
Built in 1909 the Howard Smith vessel Period (2791 tons) survived the 1914-18 war and resumed trading on the East coast for 20 years. At the outbreak of the war she was requisitioned for transport duty and used in Pacific waters. She was damaged by a Japanese bomber off the coast of Queensland. The period is one of the last four-mast steamers trading in Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Swiss Planes Wrecked
LONDON, March 17. A.A.P.—Swiss Radio states that four Swiss military aircraft of a squadron of eight Morane fighters on a training…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Actor Has Full Schooner Load For Australia "Herald" Service
LONDON, March 27.—The Australian actor, E. A. Cross, obtained the full number of passengers for the trip to Australia in his 80-ton schooner…
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SYDNEY: A mistake in sailing time sent a young man on an exciting but successful chase down the harbor today after a departing steamer. MR. M. M. Read, booked for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ammunition Dump Blast Wrecks Countryside "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 7.—A man was killed and another seriously injured last night when an ammunition dump explosion devastated wide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chinese Steamer Has Aliases
The Chinese steamer Chung Lien, which is loading bunkers at Newcastle before sailing to Shanghai, was formerly well known on the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Passages to London in 28 days, compared with prewar 36 days, will be possible when the new Orient Line…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Homes Wrecked in Montana Riots "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, April 16.—Citizens of Butte (Montana) waited nervously to day for darkness, fearing, another night of lawlessness and vandalism…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boulder Wrecks Bogey Hole Home
The hole was torn in the side of the caretaker's cottage at the Bogey baths when a boulder crashed down from the cliff above during Monday night's storm. The caretaker was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blow Up Wrecks in North
SYDNEY, Monday.—Ships sunk by enemy action and now endangering navigation in harbours at Darwin, Wyndham. Moresby and Rabaul…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shipwrecked Men Fight To Save Gifts "Herald" Service
LONDON, May 2.—Fifteen hundred British Navy men shipwrecked on the last stage of their voyage from Australia are fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Took 13-Day Battering
After a 13-day fight against mountainous seas and gales, during which the crew of three men and a woman had barely any sleep, a 60ft. 25-ton auxiliary ketch, the Bintang Siang, arrived in Newcastle last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ketch Was Spy Ship in Jap Waters
A 42 ft. auxiliary ketch, which operated as a spy ship for South-East Asia Command in Japanese waters during the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police to Intercept Missing Ketch
PERTH, Sunday.—A ketch valued at £2000 and provisions for 16 days, missing since Friday night from Fremantle, was located in an air search…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Located on Beach
PERTH, Tuesday.—A plane located the ketch Manakoora a to-day, beached about 60 miles, north of Perth. One man was sighted on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Held; Ketch Found Damaged
PERTH, Thursday.—The police to-day arrested a man believed to have removed the £2000 ketch Manakoora from Fremantle last…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Explosion Wrecks Dentist's Workroom
A bottle of nitric acid which exploded almost wrecked the workrooms at Mr. D. A. Needham's dental surgery, Hunter Street West, today. Mr. Needham suffered minor cuts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Schooner May Not Reach Australia"
LONDON, May 19. A.A.P.—The schooner, Volant, which is scheduled to sail shortly for Australia, may never get there, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner in Difficulties
LONDON, May 29. A.A.P.—The schooner Volant, which had been missing for five days after leaving Dublin on May 23 for Falmouth, was…
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