Dispute over Work on Wreck of Tyalgum Aired in Court Claim by Diver Fails
A dispute regarding wages or money due to a diver working on the operations of attemption to re-float the stranded steamer…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
117 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 6 of 6
Buried Under Wreckage for 17 Hours
LONDON (By Air Mail):—A Londoner, aged 70, was rescued alive after he had been buried for 17 hours under the wreckage of three hospital…
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LONDON, Monday:— It was officially announced that the British destroyer Sturdy (905 tons) had been lost. She ran ashore on the Scottish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]Tauans Wreck British Property at Tangier
LONDON, Tuesday:—A message from Tangier (Morocco) says that 20 Italians partly wrecked the British Post Office and damaged a British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life Light for Shipwrecked
LONDON: Seamen all over the world realise the value, in an energy of a life-saving packet--Now. as a further aid to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King Inspects Wrecked Areas
LONDON, Thursday:—The King, accompanied by the Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison) spent two hours inspecting wrecked areas in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stricken Steamer in Port
CANBERRA: The overseas vessel which struck a mine in South Australian waters on Saturday night reached an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stricken Steamer Reaches Port CANBERRA
The overseas vessel which struck a mine in South Australian waters on Saturday night reached an Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Makes Twisted Wreck of Orungal Canberra
The Minister for the Nary (Mr. Hughes) has ordered an immediate inquiry into an outbreak of fire on the stranded steamer Orungal. "It seems difficult to believe that it could be an accident,"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal Steamer Sinks After Collision Other Ship Badly Damaged
SYDNEY, Sunday: —The coastal steamer Cardross (1896 tons) was sunk after a collision with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Warship Takes German Steamer
LONDON, Monday:—A British warship captured the German steamer, Klaus Schoke (5,848) tons and landed eight officers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Sunk After Collision Near Sydney
SYDNEY: The coastal steamer Cardross, 1896 tons, sank after a collision with the freighter Fiona, 2189 tons, about 20 miles off Sydney Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Bombs Wreck Havoc On Naples LONDON
Guided by the smoke of Vesuvius, British bombers from the Middle East Command gave Naples the most violent hammering any Italian city has received so far. The attack occurred on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Irish Channel Mail Steamer Attacked From Air
LONDON, Friday:—A German plane bombed the Irish Channel mail steamer, Cambria, 20 miles from the Irish coast, on Wednesday. All bombs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Vessel Is a Total Loss
ME[?]OURNE: The opinion of surveyors is that the inter-State vessel Orungal, together with its cargo, is a total loss. The Orungal went…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wharf Laborers Refuse to Unload Steamer
SYDNEY, Wednesday:—Labor could not be engaged yesterday to unload a 7000-bag shipment of Tasmanian potatoes. Although the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Airman Found Beside Wrecked Plane
DARWIN, Thursday:—Royal Australian Air Force bombers found the missing 22-year-old aviator, Neville Bell to-day 25…
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