Light for the Shipwrecked
Seamen all over the world realise the value, in an emergency, of a lifesaving jacket. Now, as a further aid to rescue, work at night a jacket…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940
130 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 7
British Cargo Boat Sunk off Australia Seaplane Pilot Sights Wreckage 7 Drowned and 13 Survivors Brought to Sydney
CANBERRA, Friday: An announcement in the House of Representatives last night by the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Hughes) that a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raids on England King Visits Wrecked Areas "Now Let Berlin Have It!" Shouts Woman LONDON
The King, accompanied by the Home Secretary (Mr. Herbert Morrison) spent a few hours to-day inspecting wrecked areas at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy's Mystery Death Washed Ashore with Hands Tied Melbourne
Detectives do not believe that Laurence M'Kay, aged 16 years, of Altona, was murdered, but that he was drowned, with his hands tied, the boy's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five-Minute Blow Wrecks Score of 'Planes at Elementary School Scene of Devastation on Leeton-Narandera Road on Friday Phone Lines and Trees Down on Area
ALTHOUGH violent windstorms on Friday afternoon uprooted telephone poles and trees and damaged portion of the area's apricot crop, by far the greatest damage was caused at the No. 8 Elementary Flying School on the Leeton-Narandera road where a wind of gale force swept…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Ingots Reported Seizure Prom British Steamer Hong Kong
The Japanese Domel newsagency in a broadcast from Nanking said that police boarded the British steamer Hsinpeking at Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Steamer Reported Torpedoed in Atlantic New York
It is reported by the Mackay radio that the British steamer Carlton was torpedoed at 7.59 a.m. by a steamer 300 miles west of the Eire coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Early Morning Attacks Irish Mail Steamer Machinegunned London
An Air Ministry communique issued this morning says that there was little air activity last night. A few bombs were dropped on south-east England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Litter of Wreckage on 60-Mile Road to Sollum Cairo
For nearly 60 miles from [?] Barrani to Sollum there is scarcely a chain that is not littered with smashed transports, abandoned guns,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Runs Aground Wellington (N.z.)
The inter-island steamer Rangitira went aground in thick fog at Pigeon Bay yesterday morning seeking the entrance to Lyttleton Harbor at the…
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