51 Days in Lifeboat Australians' Trying Experiences
RECIFE (Brazil). After 51 days in an open lifeboat. Mrs. H. Gordon, of Victoria (Australia), and James Whyte. third…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
42 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 3
Wrecked Plane Found
The U.S. Navy transport plane which disappeared ten days previously while on a flight from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco has been found…
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Of the three Lavington houses wrecked by last Wednesday's storm in the Albury district that occupied by Mrs. H. Nolan, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Men Froze To Death in Atlantic Tragedy (A.ap.) Cleveland
"I will never forget that sight, so long as I live", said Navy Signalman Robert Weikart, whose vessel was the first to reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bismarck Sea Battle Remnants Drift Ashore
Small parties of survivors from Japanese ships sung in the Bismarck Sea are drifting ashore, Fifty-five reached the coast of New Guinea, but…
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Somewhere in Australia, Thursday.—On the north coast of New Guinea seven Japanese ships were attacked by our bombers yesterday, one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion at Wagga Laundry Wrecked Woman's Lucky Escape
Mrs. L. A. Seymour, of 23 Peter-street, Wagga, had a remarkable escape from death or serious injury early yesterday morning when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in Australia[?] Ferry Steamer Becomes a Battleship Tokyo Talk on Sydney Harbor Raid
SYDNEY, SundayâThe sd[?] ferry steamer Kuttabul, which was sunk in the Japanese midget submarine raid on Sydney Harbor on…
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How many of us say: ’Oh, he’s above board’, without realising that this phrase was once used to describe the position of anything on…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Covered with barnacles, and exhibiting signs of having been in the wafer for a considerable period, a 10…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After Bismarck Sea Battle Japs Drift Ashore Corporal Kilis Eight and Takes 13 Prisoners
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA.—After nearly a month of mopping up the Jap troops who survived the destruction of the large convoy in the…
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It was disclosed today that Captain A. A. Koch was in the sea for 18 hours before he was rescued after a Qantas flying boat of which he was pilot…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Final tests of an unsinkable lifeboat have been completed in Britain. Francis Lowe, joint managing director of Lamport…
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LONDON, Thursday: The raid by the British and Allied troops who swept through Burma on a 300-mile front, wrecking bridges and railways,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nazi Blitz on English Towns Many Casualties Buildings Wrecked
LONDON, Monday: German fighter-bombers staged a hit and run raid against towns is the south, and southeast of England…
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It is revealed that an air-borne, fully equipped, twin-engined lifeboat was for the first time dropped by parachute from a plane when the crew…
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Carrying foodstuffs for troops an Australian merchant ship has been tied up at an Australian port for 10 days and its departure has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Allied Invasion Points Armies Ready "Softening" Process Lifting Axis Watching Counts on U-boats to Wreck Landing Attempts
LONDON, Wednesday.—Brigadier Noce, America's amphibious force leader, stated in London to-day that landing points for the Allied invasion and the…
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[?]LAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—[?] N.Z. Air Department has received advice that wreckage, believed to be that of the RNZAF flying-boat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →River Steamer Trade
Will the river trade revive and the paddle steamer again become a familiar sight on the river? There are traders, the Gem and the Marion, are…
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