U.s. Plane Wreckage on View in Japan
NEW YORK, Sunday. - It Is announced by the Tokyo radio that thousands of Japanese viewed a wrecked United States War plane…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
61 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 4
Pemmican in Boats Eskimos' Ration Saves Shipwrecked Sailors
Eskimos and trappers of the Frozen North, who ate their dried strips of caribou meat or pemmican, have passed in the idea of this highly…
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Cable messages to naval men not stationed in seagoing ships may now be sent at the standard rate of 2/6 for three set phrases,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Wrecked Sailors Have New Device to Repair Machine-gunned Lifeboats
Ships crews and passengers cast away upon the high seas need no longer be kept constantly at work baling out with anything from empty…
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LONDON (Nova Scotia), Sunday.—Shipping circles here said that a vessel, which was recently shelled and destroyed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Plane on Mountain
AUCKLAND (N.Z), Tuesday: The wreckage of an Airways plane which had been missing since last Thursday was sighted from the air this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwrecked Sailors New Device to Repair. Machine-gunned Lifeboats
Ship's crews and passengers cast away upon the high seas need no longer be kept constantly at work baling out with anything from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Flying Tigers" Wreck Japanese Planes in Burma Chinese Challenge Enemy Progress
NEW DELHI, Thursday,—It was announced in Chungking that the U.S. "Flying Tigers" had destroyed at least 53 Japanese planes during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Shipwreck Suit" Is Latest British Invention
A "shipwreck suit" is the latest British invention for saving scamen's lives. It is made of bright yellow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U-boat Gives Rum to Lifeboat Crew
WASHINGTON, Monday.—The U.S. Navy announces the torpedoing of a medium sized U.S. merchantman in Atlantic waters, A small British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecking German Industry Ruhr Raid Tangled Target of Communications and Buildings Hundreds of Fires Blazing Climax to Be Followed by Greater Climax London, Wednesday.—Monday
night's raid on the Ruhr, in which 1036 bombers were used, continued the settled British policy of wrecking German industry and communications. The raiders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Surviors of Torpedoed Ship Found in Pitiful Condition Lashed By Wind and Rain Squalls Scrambled Ashore, Barely Able To Walk Owing to Weak Condition. SYDNEY
TWENTY-THREE MORE MEN FROM THE CARGO STEAMER SUNK 35 MILES EAST OF SYDNEY ON WEDNESDAY' NIGHT APPEARED OFF A SMALL FISHING VILLAGE JUST BEFORE DAYLIGHT TO-DAY IN ONE OF THE SHIPS LIFEBOATS…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fishing Boat Wrecked Three Men Missing
PERTH, Wednesday.—A fishing boat. containing three men was smashed to pieces about half a mile from the coast during one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Sunk by Italian Submarine Capetown
Somewhere north of the equator an Italian submarine shelled and sank the four-masted schooner Nova Scotia, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Radio Signals 60 Times Over 200 Miles
Every ship in the British merchant service must carry an ingenious addition to its lifeboat equipment in the form of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Renault Works a Wreck
LONDON, Monday: Photographs smuggled out of France show indisputably that the R.A.F. bombing of the Renault works on March 3, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hara-Kiri Prevented by Suspension, of Steamer Tiekets
Recently Tokio reported that master of a Japanese liner had committed hara-kiri because his had struck a Japanese mine…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Physical Wreck Debarred Full Pension Rights
SYDNEY, Monday.—Although a physical wreck from gunshot wounds received in France, Mr. C. J. Gibbons, aged 48 years, of Sans Soucl, was…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday—Among prominent R.A.A.F. pilots recently returned from overseas is Squadron-Leader Ivan Stanley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwreck Suit Brings British Inventor Life-saving Award
A "shipwreck suit" is the latest British invention for saving seamen's lives. It is made of a might yellow rubberised material in two…
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