Steamer Runs Ashore. Sydney
The Interstate passenger steamer Orungal ran aground in a fierce gale near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. victoria, last night…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
30 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 2 of 2
Minesweeper Foundered with Crew. Sydney
Melbourne. — Running without lights in pitch darkness off Port Phillip Bay last night, the H.M.A.S. Goorangal, a minesweeper, collided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hughes Tells Of Raider's Reported Attack On Steamer Rumor of Engagement 700 Miles West of Fremantle But Not Cameron Asks About Release Of Details Of Naval Movements—Delayed Disaster News
The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) stated in the House of Representatives to-day that he heard reports that signals had been picked up on Wednesday from the steamer Maimoa that she was being attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Sweeper Sinks After Collision with Steamer Crew of 24 Perish
One of the most tragic collisions in Australian seafaring history occurred at Port Philip Bay, Melbourne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Planes Ten a Penny Wrecking the Nazi Air Fleet Great Shooting by A.A.
Lance-Corporal H. Walker of Queensland, who, prior to the outbreak of war went to New Zealand to play football, and later poined a N.Z. contingent, writes interestingly from somewhere in England on the destruction of the German air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Plane Wrecked at Narromine Instructor Killed; Trainee Injured
An Air Force instructor was killed and an Empire Air Scheme pilot trainee was seriously injured, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Slopped By British? Brazilian Steamer Held 22 Germans Allegedly Taken Washington
The Secretary for State (Mr. Cordell Hull) said to-day that the United States was investigating a report that a British warship had halted the Itape…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Late War News. German Steamer Captured Italian Bases Pounded
The British Navy advises the capture of a 6,000 tons German steamer. Many of the crew have been landed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life-light for Shipwrecked Floating Torch Throws Out Beam for 15 Hours
Seamen all over the world realise the value, in a emergency, of life-saving jacket. Now, as a further aid to rescue work at night, a jacket life-light has been approved by the British Ministry of Shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Empty Lifeboat Sign Of End of Hun Raider ? New York
The master of a Portugese freighter reports that he sighted an empty lifeboat marked "Hamburg". 800 miles off the coast of Portugal, suggesting that…
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