On Mississippi Steamer
Ordered by her father (Noah Beery), Bing Crosby's sweetheart (Gail Patrick), jilts him for being a coward…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1935
214 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 11
Launch Rammed by Steamer Crew's Remarkable Escape
WELLINGTON, Saturday:-- Trapped while asleep in their beds below deck, three men had a miraculous escape from drowning when their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mussolini Wrecks The Peace Conference In Paris Turned Down Flat Proposals of Britain and France Abyssinian Mandate Demanded
PARIS, Sunday.--The Three-Power Conference has ended in failure, an official communique admitting inability to find a basis for a peaceful solution of the Italo-Abyssinian conflict subject to the maintenance of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Search for Birkenhead Wreck
CAPE TOWN, Tuesday:-- Signer. Rossi, the Italian salvage expert, shortly will attempt to locate the 83 year old Birkenhead wreck…
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According to a cable, an Italian salvage firm will shortly attempt to find the wreck of the British troopship, Birkenhead, which struck a rock three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Volunteers Paid Off Union Crew Engaged For Steamer Craigend
SYDNEY, Tuesday: --The volunteers who manned the Patrick Coy's Craigend during the shipping strike last week were paid off by the company…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Dead Warship Hits Steamer LONDON
In heavy weather, with wind and rain sweeping up the channel and very poor visibility. H.M.S. Ramillies and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Sailors Killed Steamer and Battleship Collide
LONDON, Saturday:--The battleship Ramillies, which was enroute to the Mediterranean, came into collision during a gale in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck Discovered. 30Ft. Deep Near Barrier Reef
The crews of two luggers, which reached Thursday Island last week, reported that they had found a wreck while swim-diving three weeks ago oh a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer on Reef Fierce Florida Storm Miami (Florida)
The fury of a tropical, storm beat across Florida quays to-night and as it whirled to the northwest the entire southern tip of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Four Rescue Vessels Standing by Steamer Dixie Hard Aground
MIAMI, Tuesday:--Four rescue vessels are standing by to transfer the passengers from the steamer Dixie, which is hard aground…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wreck Discovered 30ft. Deep Near Barrier Reef
The crews of two luggers, which reached Thursday Island last week, reported that they had found a wreck while swim - diving three weeks ago…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crew Stricken by Flu Schooner Helpless for Nine Days
SYDNEY, Friday:-- Last night the schooner Alma Doepel, 16 days out from Hobart, reached Sydney after a most extraordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Again in Trouble Schooner Seth Parker
VANCOUVER. Saturday:-- The schooner Seth Parker, which was responsible for making H.M.AS. Australia, with the Duke of Gloucester on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Trouble Again Schooner Seth Parker HONOLULU
The schooner Seth Parker is in distress 650 miles south-east of Honolulu and radioed at 9 p.m. that water was three-feet deep in the hold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MISSING Aeroplane Wrecked in Desert All on Board Escape
ALICE SPRINGS, Saturday:-- Found tramping through the desert 50 miles from Aileron, a small station on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Becoming Worse Tweed River Bar No Steamer for 19 WEEKS
No trading steamer has crossed over the Tweed bar for almost 19 weeks, because the channel is almost completely blocked. There…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crocodile Was Tasty Eaten By Men At Wrecked 'Plane Alice Springs
The pilot, Mr. M. Mather, and Mr. J. Maloney, who stayed beside the wrecked Monospar air liner in Central Australia to guard the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wrecked Monospar Plane Passengers and Pilot at Alice Springs
ALICE SPRINGS, Tuesday:--Both passengers and the pilot of the crashed Monospar 'plane are in Alice Springs. None is suffering ill effects…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Almost Wrecked by Ice Shackleton's Famous Ship Back from Arctic
LONDON, Monday:--Sir Ernest Shackleton's famous ship, The Quest, which was chartered by the British East Greenland Expedition this…
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