Explosion Sinks Steamer LONDON
An explosion sank the steamer Box Hill in the North Sea. Nineteen members of the crew are believed to have perished…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
10 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Yacht Wrecked
AUCKLAND.—The yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Natakana Island in a fierce gale yesterday morning, and of the crew of five only one was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Four Men Drowned When Yacht Was Wrecked
When the large yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Matakana Island, near Tauranga, N.Z., in a gale early Sunday morning, only one of the five men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion on Steamer Three Passengers and Forty of Crew Missing London
Forty members of the crew and three passengers are missing from the steamer Biarritz, following an explosion in the North Sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U-boats’ Toll Two Steamers Sunk, One. Ashore Few Survivors LONDON
U-boats sank the steamers England and Hosanger. The sole survivor from the England was the second officer, who was picked up after 32 hours on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousands Killed Russian Attacks Fail in Finland 13 Tanks Wrecked HELSINKI
A Finnish communique declares that Russian attacks across the ice in the Gulf of Finland were repulsed, 1,000 being killed and 13 tanks wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Washed Ashore 3000 Dead Germans LONDON
Three thousand dead Germans have been , washed up on the eastern shores of Oslo Fiord; the invaders also lost a great quantity of arms and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety Accidents Still Wrecking Homes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents Are Still Wrecking Homes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New .South Wales)
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the fact that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Life Light for the Shipwrecked Floating Torch Throws OutBeam for 15 Hours
Seamen all over the world realise the value, in an emergency, of a life-saving jacket Now as a further aid to rescue work at Night, a jacket life-light has…
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