Girl Read Book in Lifeboat
Fourteen survivors of the burned British frieghter Arawak, including a plucky 11-year-old girl who finished reading a book in the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
49 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
Shipwrecked Sailors New Device to Repair Machine-Gunned Lifeboats
Ship's crews and passengers cast away upon the high seas need no longer be kept constantly at work bailing out with anything from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Further Red Army Successes Claimed "Wreckage of Nazi Material Litters Fields of Ukraine"
LONDON, Thursday: Vichy Radio states: A message from Stockholm declares that the Russians a have taken control of a large portion of the railway between Kharkov and Lozovoya…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwreck Suit British Inventor Rewarded
LONDON.--A "shipwreck suit" is the latest British invention for saving seamen's lives. It is made of a bright yellow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crash Victim Washed Ashore
LAUNCESTON, Sunday.—The body of another victim of the mail plane crash off Flinder's Island on Friday was washed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreckage of Two Japanese Submarines Recovered
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The wreckage of two of the three enemy submarines destroyed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Killed in Sydney Harbour Raid 11 Naval Men Missing: Two Sub. Wrecks Found: Search For Parent Ship
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Eight naval men were killed, 11 are misting—believed kilted—and 10 were injured in the attack by three Japanese midget submarines in Sydney Harbour on Sunday night. The casualties were suffered on a ferry steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.O.S. by Pressing Button Portable Lifeboat Radio Signals 200 Miles
LONDON.--Every ship in the British merchant service must now carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equipment in the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →2 Die When Gale Wrecks Army Store
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men were fatally injured and eight others injured, while 13 received minor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Germans Laughed While Lifeboat Was Gunned
BOGOTA (Colombia), Saturday: How submarine officers stood on the conning tower and laughed while a U-boat machine-gunned a lifeboat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Chinese Railways Taken by Japs
CHUNGKING.--The Central news-agency, quoting the managing director of the Hangchow-Nanchang railway, said the Japanese are finding…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Japs. Gain Wrecked Railways
CHUNGKING, Monday.—The Central newsagency, quoting the managing director of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Sunk by Shellfire
CAPE TOWN. Thursday: An Italian submarine on June 2 shelled and sank the former Nova Scotia. a four masted schooner registered at Panama,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Wreckage and Bodies Discovered
MELBOURNE, Friday: The burnt wreckage of the Guinea Airways Ltd. passenger aircraft which was lost on April 21 was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Brigades Called to Steamer Afire at Wharf
With her boiler-room enveloped in flames, a steamer had a narrow escape from disaster at a wharf in an Australian port…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Lifeboat Found
LISBON, Saturday: A Portuguese destroyer found one of the two missing lifeboats from the Avila Star. The lifeboat contained 28 living…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss of Wooden Steamer Four Missing
Four men are missing and are believed to have perished when the wooden steamer Dolphin sank off Lady Elliot Island on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aided Wrecked Bomber's Crew Behind Enemy's Lines
LONDON, Monday: The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at El Alamein says the an AIF doctor, with his bag of drugs and instruments,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salvage Haul From Wrecked Freighter
With barges and lighters constantly pounded by heavy, and at times mountainous seas, and with the risk of explosion, or fire from petrol, an A.I.F. dock operating company has just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked Jewish Premises
NEW YORK, Wednesday: Nazi, sympathisers wrecked the premises of Brooklyn branch of the American Jewish Congress. They…
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