Trouble on Steamer Destroyer To Investigate LONDON
The destroyer, Broke, has been sent out from Plymouth to investigate radioed reports of trouble on the South African steamer,…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1937
229 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 12
Shark Wrecks Boat LONDON
A twenty feet shark, leaping from the water at Carradale Bay, Kintyre, made a hole in a fishing boat and three of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Foundered in Squall Majority of Crew Believed Drowned Panama City (Florida)
After swimming 25 miles in raging seas, Addley Baker (29), seaman, staggered ashore and reported that the coastal steamer Tarpon had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collective Action Urged To Combat Piracy Menace More British Destroyers for Mediterranean Soviet Steamer Sunk LONDON
WHILE the British Cabinet was actually deciding measures to meet the menace of piracy in the Mediterranean, a Soviet steamer was sunk off Skyros Island by a submarine which is…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Steamer's Unhappy Voyage Allegations of Grew Bad Conditions and Disputes
LONDON, Monday:--Stories of bad conditions, bad food and disputes on board were heard when the British steamer Sherard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engineer Killed. Explosion on Steamer Sydney Star
LONDON, Tuesday.—In an explosion off Las Palmas in the engine room of the vessel Sydney Star, travelling from Australia, an engineer…
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The North Coast steamer, Urana, which was wrecked at Old Bar last week, was to-day sold at auction for £135 to a representative of Ernest…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday:— When the fierce gale that whipped most of the southern part of the State last night and early this morning…
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A relief train crashed into the Paris to Bordeaux Express at Angouleme to-day and at least eight were killed and 25 injured…
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The first direct steamer since April last, the s.s. Tyalgum is expected to cress in at Tweed Heads this morning…
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LIMA, Saturday. Stern measures were required to control panic that occurred among 165 passengers when the steamer Pudeto, of 4,316…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adrift All Night in Disabled Motor Launch Brothers Rescued by Pilot Steamer
SYDNEY, Monday:—The pilot steamer Captain Cook towed a 25-foot launch containing two brothers, William Stott (22) and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soviet Abolishes Death Penalty. Espionage, Arson and Wrecking
MOSCOW, Sunday.--A new decree authorises imprisonment for 25 years instead of the death sentence for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mysterious Disease Seamen Put Ashore MELBOURNE
When the tanker, British Destiny, arrived here to-day from the Persian Gulf, via Adelaide, one of the engineers was taken to hospital suffering from &…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of Steamer Urana Captain Held to be Blameworthy
SYDNEY, Monday:— Following an investigation to-day into the loss of the coastal vessel Urana, which was wrecked at Old Bar…
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Captain John Charles Droder, master of the steamer, Urana, which went aground and later became a wreck at Old Bar,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday:--A woman aged about 21 years, whose identity is unknown, fell from the Manly ferry steamer Bellubera near the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Seamen Refuse to Man Steamer S1lkworth Sydney
The Chinese seamen who are on strike, at a meeting at Newcastle yesterday, refused to man the Silkworth, In rejecting the offer made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"Nervous Wrecks Behind Eden"
LONDON, Saturday:--"Mr. Eden is a first class chauffeur and knows where he wants to go but no chauffeur can drive while an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Seamen Arrested Refusal to Take Steamer Silksworth to Japan
SYDNEY, Monday.-- Captain Gemmell, of the Steamer Silks worth, to-day swore warrants for the arrest of the 36 Chinese who…
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