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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1939
131 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 7
Pocket Battleship Blamed for Sinking Steamer in South Atlantic Pan-American Conference Indignant LONDON
It is officially announced in London that a German cruiser, and not an armed merchantman, has begun raiding commerce on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War News Pocket Battleship Blamed for Sinking Steamer
It is officially announced in London that a German cruiser, and not an armed merchantman, has begun raiding commerce on the main shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"American Ship Will be Sunk" Warning From German Navy Chief Warships Rushing Out to Escort Steamer Nazi Reference to Athenia Suggestion That Allies Will Torpedo Iroquois New York
The head of the German Navy (Admiral Raeder) has informed the United States that the American steamship, Iroquois, carrying Americans from Europe, will be sunk when she nears the United States coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Sunk AMSTERDAM
The steamer Gresholm was mined and sunk in the North Sea. Three of the crew were killed and the remaining eight were rescued by a Finnish…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exhausted Germans Drift Ashore in England London
Two young German aviators, who were shot down in the North Sea during Tuesday's raids, either on Scapa or the East Coast, drifted exhausted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest (Second Edition) Steamer Sunk Survivors Landed in Norway London
Survivors on the stonegate nave landed at Tromso. They state that the Deutschland sunk the Stonegate in mid-Atlantic and took the crew…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seizure of American Steamer Pocket Battleship Now Blamed Warship Operating Near Newfoundland LONDON
The German pocket-battleship Deutschland (10,000 tons), and not the cruiser Emden, is now blamed for the capture of the U.S. steamer City of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Warsaw Miserable Plight of Population Paris
Further eyewitness' accounts of conditions in Warsaw reveal the greatest misery and destruction. The cost of living is fantastically high and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked U-boat Found on English Coast London
The Admiralty states that the shattered wreck of a German submarine has been found on Goodwin Sands, on the Kent Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Reports U-boat New York
The British freighter Coulmore wirelessed that she had sighted a U-boat. The ship was then silent. The United States coastguard cutter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Did Steamer Escape? London
The "Dally Telegraph" says that a message has been received in London stating that the Coulmore eluded her attacker…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.O.S. From Steamer U.S. Cutters Rush to Save Lives Dramatic Race in Storm New York
"S.O.S. Sighted submarine!"—then silence. From far off the Massachusetts coast came this bare radio call just…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Sailors in Lifeboat Ill with Cold and Hunger London
According to the "Daily Mail," a lifeboat containing three German sailors, helpless and ill with cold and hunger, drifted into the Firth of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Latest (Second Edition) Hospital Wrecked Japanese Air Raid Shanghai
The Church Mission Society has advised the British Embassy that the hospital at Hingwa, south-west of Foochow, was wrecked by Japanese air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion on Danish Steamer London
As a consequence of an explosion on Friday, the Danish steamer, Canada, sank to-day despite efforts to save her. The crew of 60 took to the boats after…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Unload Steamer Melbourne
Following the refusal of wharr laborers to handle goods from the steamer Koolinda because the railwaymen were on strike, soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Bombing" of Channel Steamer Admiralty Explanation London
The Admiralty version of yesterday's reported bombing of a Channel steamer shows that a French plane, uncertain of its position, crossed over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Steamer Mine in Singapore Harbor New York
The British steamer Sirdhana sank within 15 minutes in Singapore Harbor this morning following an explosion, believed to have been caused…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wires British Steamer Sunk in Singapore Harbor Singapore
Eleven deck passengers, chiefly infants and children, were lost, and nine other Asiatic passengers have not been traced, when the British…
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