Adrift in Launch Rescued by Pilot Steamer
Two well known Sydney racing identities, W. J. Smith, the racehorse owner of Hurstville, and Bob Mead, a trainer, of Kogarah…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938
32 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 2
Steamer Bombed Marseilles
The French cargo steamer, Guaruja, wirelessed that she had been bombed by a Rebel aeroplane and was drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →International Clipper Wrecked. London
Pago, Pago.—The fate of the Pan American Airways Samoan Clipper was revealed when the minesweeper Avocet found wreckage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wild Picnic Hotel Wrecked Melbourne
Kingslake Hotel, at Kingslake, was nearly wrecked when 30 members of two picnic parties became…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eleven Drowned Submarine Sinks Steamer Barcelona
The British steamer, Endymion, was torpedoed and sunk by an insurgent submarine near Cartagena. Eleven lives were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys' Plight Adrift in Open Boat Wind Blew Them Ashore Melbourne, Friday night
Two little boys spent Thursday night in a rowing boat drifting on the rough water of Port Phillip Bay, but they were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burning Steamer Races to Port Fire in Hold Passengers Unaware of Their Danger Sydney
A fire was discovered in No. 1 hatch on the steamer, Hunter, about 5 o'clock this morning, when the vessel, which was carrying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Perilous Time For Wrecked Crew Sydney
The oversea freighter Clan Macarthur, yesterday rescued the crew of a 16ft. cutter, Joyce, which was wrecked in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Sinks Two Collisions in Fog London
Two collisions occurred in a fog in the Channel to-day. The steamer, Wairangi, bound for Brisbane, collided with a coastal steamer. Peter Hawks-!…
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The South African Government steamer, Dalea, of 5,188 tons, went agre[?]d on Mecca Reef, near Thursday Island, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane Wrecked Pilot's Escape SYDNEY
Dan Collins, instructor of the Broken Hill Aero Club, had a narrow escape when the wing of his plane struck the ground…
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The Burns Philp steamer Morinda (2025 tons) is ashore off the Malo Islands in the New Hebrides, and preparations are being made to disembark…
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News of the rescue of passengers aboard the steamer Baud, which went ashore in Hai Island, in the Dutch East Indies, was brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Killed Explosion on Steamer London
Two were killed and two injured in an explosion in the engineroom of the New Zealand steamer Tarakini, undergoing trials on the Tyne after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Damaged Crashed Through Wharf Sydney
During a dense fog which enveloped the harbor this morning, the Greek freighter. Mount Casa, shortly after passing underneath the Harbor Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Ship Ashore Fourth In Week To Go Aground on Queensland Coast Brisbane, Friday night
Another coastal steamer has gone ashore on the Queensland coast. The unlucky vessel this time is the freighter, Canonbar, 708 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Roll In Colliery Disaster Reaches Eighty Explosion Mine Wrecked Pitiful Scenes London
The death roll in the Markham colliery disaster is now 80. Rescue parties are still working feverishly in an effort to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Steamer Wreckage Found Near Cristobel London
Two batch covers, with the names Anglo Australian burnt into them, possibly provide a clue to the fate of the missing freighter of that name. They…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Lives Lost British Steamer Bombed and Sunk Valencia
It is now revealed that mere was no loss of life when the British steamer, Thorpehall, was bombed and sunk near Valencia Harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Friendly Societies Will They Be Wrecked? SYDNEY
The Executive Council of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild of St. Mary's and St. Joseph's, which is a registered friendly…
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