Sound Engineer Killed Steamer's Mast Crashed
SYDNEY, Friday.-- Roy Blanch (40), of Bondi, a sound engineer employed by the news reel department of Cinesound Production…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
194 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 10
Wrecked Steamer Burned Shanghai
The united States gunboat Oahu, wirelessed that the Standard Olios' tanker Meian, which was beached on December 13 to prevent her from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Roaring 'Fifties. No. 4 --Safe Ashore
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →11 DROWNED, 16 MISSING Steamer Capsizes In Japan
TOKIO, Monday:--Eleven were drowned, and 16 missing, including a number of holiday-makers, as the res[?]lt of the cansizing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Air Raid on Harrow Japs. Cause Chaos In City Drome Wrecked Hankow
CHAOS reigned in Hankow when a large fleet of Japanese warplanes heavily bombed the aerodrome for the first time since the Government offices were transferred from Nanking. The first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cargo Steamer In Difficulties BREST
The Yugoslav cargo steamer, Vidovdan, lost three propeller blades and is in difficulties, 100 miles from Brest. Lifeboats put out to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Samoa Clipper Burnt, Crew All Perish Inaugural Trip on New Service Burnt Wreckage 14 Miles From Island
WASHINGTON, Wednesday:--The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the Samoa Clipper was solved to-day when the burnt wreckage of the giant air liner was found in the sea at a point near Pago Pago, 14 miles north-west of the island. It is definitely established that the machine was destroyed by fire and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Seven Killed in Samoan Clipper Crash Wreckage Found In Ocean Near Pago Pago U.S. Aviation Suffers Severe Blow by Capt. Musick's Death Washington
AFTER many conflicting reports, the fate of the Pan-American Airways Samoan clipper, bound from Pago Pago to Auckland, is now known. The wreckage of the ill-fated machine was discovered in the ocean 14 miles north-west of Pago Pago. "It has been definitely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shop Front Wrecked Eight Tons Of Wheels Roll Down Hill NEWCASTLE
When the chain holding them in position snapped, seven pairs of railway wheels, fitted to axles and weighing 25 cwt. each, rolled off a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bodies Washed Up Boats Wrecked In English Storm? LONDON
Bodies washed up on the Ayrshire and South Wales coasts confirmed fears that the Glasgow coaster, Lackshire, and the Swansea steamer,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wrecked Saros Sold Melbourne
D. Allan, of Mallacoota, a fisherman, who paid £70 for the freighter, Saros, wrecked near Cape Everard Lighthouse made a profitable deal. After…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plane Wreckage Found No Trace of Pilot
BASRA, Saturday:—The wreckage of a plane identified as that of M. Moench's was found in the Persian Gulf near Bandarabbas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckage Found Believed to be French Airman's 'Plane BASRA
The wreckage of a 'plane believed to be that of Christian Moenchi, the French airman, who disappeared while attempting the Saigon-Paris record,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Profitable Spec. Purchase of Wrecked Steamer
MELBOURNE, Monday.--The steamer Saros, which lies on a reef near Cape Everard. has proved a profitable speculation for Dave Allen, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Labor Refused loadSgof jap. steamer
SYDNEY, Monday—Union labor was not forthcoming when men vere called to load the Japanese steamer Atsuta Maru at Walsh's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale Wrecks Bombers havoc at r.a.F. station
LONDON, Monday:— Three hundred Air Force men fought desperately for four hours in darkness to save 20 8-ton bombers…
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The wrecked freighter Saros has proved a valuable speculation for the men who have become financially interested in the hulk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreck of Steamer Kakariki Salvage Proposed
MELBOURNE, Tuesday:— One year and four days after the steamer Kakariki sank south of Gellibrand Light in a collision with the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scenes of Heroism When Lifeboat Founders London
Scenes of heroism were witnessed when the St. Ives lifeboat, returning with 23 members of the wrecked Panama steamer Alba, capsized in terrific…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mutiny by Japanese Crew On British Steamer Attack on Third Officer
LONDON, Tuesday:—A Shanghai message states that a mutiny by the Japanese crew of the British steamer Silksworth when the vessel was 24 hours out from Hong Kong culminated in an attack on the third officer. The chief officer…
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