Germans Seize Swedish Steamer
STOCKHOLM, Tuesday:—The Germans have seized the Swedish steamer Buenos Aires, which was en route, to America laden with…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
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Foundered in Atlantic
LONDON, Thursday:—A message from Stockholm states that the Nova Scotian schooner chisolm has foundered during a storm in the North…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Troops Enjoy First Meal Ashore
(Photo by courtesy of the Commonwealth Department of Information)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Graf Spee Wreckage Sold to Junk Dealer
NEW YORK, Friday:—The United Press Montevideo, correspondent says: The German Legation informed the Uruguayan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bodies of Germans Washed Ashore
LONDON, Saturday:—The bodies of two German airmen were washed ashore on the Northumberland coast to-day. A rubber dinghy also drifted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Safe Not U-Boat Victim WASHINGTON
The Navy announces that United States naval 'planes located the British steamer, Southgate (4862 tons), in no apparent danger…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War Soviet Keeps up Attack on Wiipuri Fierce Hand to Hand Fighting 108 Missing From Steamer
Fierce hand to hand fighting raged during the week-end in the north-eastern and southern suburbs of Wiipuri as the defenders contested every yard with wave after wave of Russian shock troops, tanks and armoured cars. The Russians, disregarding cost of life…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage of Airliner Located
CALCUTTA, Monday:—The wreckage of the Imperial Airways liner Hannibal was located in the sea from the air two miles east…
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The wreckage of the Imperial Airways flying boat Hannibal was located from the air, two miles east of Raselkuh, on the south coast of Iran…
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LONDON, Tuesday:— The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has rescued an average of 68 lives a week during the war, compared with 21 in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Not Wreckage of Airliner
LONDON, Tuesday:—The commander of the Imperial Airways airmer For a, who cated wreckage at Rasel Kuh on Monday said that it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →—:Outstanding War DRAMA:—How Largest Steamer Crossed The Atlantic New York
SCREAMING whistles of harbour craft, darting aeroplanes and cheering crowds on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Danes Find Wrecked Nazi Plane
COPENHAGEN, Sunday:—A German warplane crashed shortly before midnight last night on the Island of Lolland, one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Norway Loser Steamer Torpedoed by U-Boat LONDON
A Norwegian ship, the Navarra, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in Scottish waters, and her crew…
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LONDON: Although on February 21 Vice-Admiral Schlewindt promised Mr. M. T. Halvorsen, who visited Germany on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nazi Steamer Sails Ordered from Port in Adriatic LONDON
The German steamer Ankara, laden with 4000 tons of bauxite, sailed secretly before dawn to-day from Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of U Boat Found by Diver
PARIS, Thursday:—A French diver found at considerable depth and identified the wreck of a German submarine which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wrecked Ship Salvaged By "Landlubbers"
LONDON, April 6:— A ship given up by experts as a total loss has been salvaged, mainly by "landlubbers" who have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →British Steamer Mined
LONDON, Wednesday:—The British steamer Lolworth (1,989 tons) has been mined off the south-east coast. Two of the crew were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cargo Steamer Afire SINGAPORE
A fire which broke out in a cargo of copra on the Ben Line vessel Benroech, alongside the wharves yesterday, was still burning this morning…
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