Steamer Torpedoed Most of Crew Missing London
A U-boat torpedoed the steamer Svarton off the north Scottish coast. Eleven members of the crew were picked up from a raft, but 20 are…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
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German Steamer Strikes Iceberg Trawler Rescues Crew London
It is reported from Copenhagen that a trawler rescued 62 members of the crew of the German steamer Bahia Blanca, which sank north-west of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Explosion Attempt to Wreck Sub-station Sydney
Early this morning an attempt was made to destroy an electricity sub-station near the Warwick Farm racecourse with a bomb. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yacht Wrecked Four Drowned
Auckland (N.Z.), Monday. The yacht Ngakuia was wrecked at Natakana Island in a fierce gale yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U-Boat Sinks A Dutch Steamer Indignation in Holland Amsterdam
A U-boat, after boarding a ship in the Bay of Biscay and examining its cargo, torpedoed and sank, the Dutch steamer Arendskerk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt To Wreck Valuable Machine Reward for Information Sydney
An attempt to wreck a machine worth £15,000 was made recently at the Pyrmont works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. A reward…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Explosion Wrecks Part Of U.S.A. Powder Factory Gibbstown (Pennsylvannia)
At least two were killed and five injured as the result of the explosion of 60001b. of nitro-glycerine, which destroyed a unit of the Dupont powder works. An area of 50 miles was rocked and windows were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to Wreck Machine Bolts and Steel in Gears Sydney
An attempt to wreck a machine worth £15,000 was made recently at the Pyrmont works of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Machine Wreckers. Sydney
An attempt to wreck a machine worth £15,000 was made recently at the Pyrmont Works Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. A reward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another German Steamer Is Scuttled French Sink U-boat Paris
Last night's war communique set out: "It was a quiet day on the whole. There was some artillery action. "The German steamer Albert Janus…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U-boat Victims Frozen to Death Adrift In Lifeboat London
Death clenched an icy hand upon 13 members of the crew of the Elenistatathos, who, after four days adrift in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graf Spee Wreckage Sold As Junk Montreal
The British United Press correspondent at Monte Video says that the German Legation has informed the Uruguayan Foreign Office that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes
In three days last week seven children were rendered' fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents Still Wrecking Hopes
In three days last week a even children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chilean Steamer Sunk With Loss of 66 Valparaiso
The Chilean steamer Moraleda was sunk north of Faraway Island, in the Straits of Magellan. In all 66 were drowned and only 33 were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CHILD - Ship Survivors Located in Lifeboat Sunderland Recuse 600 Miles At Sea 46 Saved After Nightmare Voyage Since Liner Torpedoed Child Tells Dramatic Stroy—Passing Ship London
Two Sunderland flying boats, one of which was manned by Australians, found 46 survivors, including some children, drifting in a boat from the torpedoed liner City of Benares. A warship later picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not French Wreck Object in Pacific Sydney
Sydney authorities give no credence to a statement published this morning that part of a wreck sighted in the Pacific, near New Caledonia, last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Reports Sinking of Bremen in April, Off Denmark Sightseers Make Trips To Inspect Wreck 15,000 Troops Believed to Have Been Carried—vessel Victim of Torpedo San Francisco
The large German liner Bremen, of 51,731 tons, was sunk in the Kattegat, four miles from the coast of Northern Denmark, according to letters which have been received from Denmark…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage Found Supposed to Be From Freighter Turakina
Auckland (N.Z.), Thursday. A large quantity of wreckage has been washed ashore on the New Zealand coast, near…
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