Schooner Hermes More Wreckage Found RABAUL
Another portion of wreckage (a piece of painted, sawn timber), found south of Unea Island, has been identified as belonging to the missing…
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Aged Steamer Scuttled
The coastal steamer Kembla, built at Glasgow in 1860, was towed to sea yesterday by the tiny motor ship Erina II. and scuttled 11 miles off…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Chinese from the stranded tanker Vincas have identified a piece of hatch-planking washed ashore at Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Missing Hermes. Island Schooner. Top of Table Found. Identified by Administrator. Rabaul
The first definite result from the search for the missing Government schooner, Hermes, was obtained when the steamer Friderun returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In Cyclone Steamer Warns W.A. PERTH
Warnings of a willy-willy on the north-west coast were issued by the Weather Bureau to-day, following a radio from the steamer Koolinda,…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--The master of the steamer Wandana has reported to the Collector, of Customs that, when passing Claremont Point on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The World's News 60-66 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, N.S.W. Wednesday, January 8, 1936. When Vanderbilt Servants Wrecked The Party.. Refused to Wait on German Ambassador
EASILY the most embarrassing meal in all America's social history was that given by the Vanderbilts to Count…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Excursion Steamer Banned. Melbourne
Three hundred members of the Melbourne branch of the Seamen's Union decided to-day to extend the interstate shipping strike to the excursion steamer Weeroona and to other…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Steamer in Cyclone Perth
Following a radio from the steamer Koolinda which is on the way from Carnarvon to Java the Weather Bureau to-day issued warnings of a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Surfer Is Carried Out in Bad Way When Brought Ashore
Swept out to sea by a strong undertow while she was bathing at North Kiama yesterday afternoon, a young woman. Mavis Gibbs, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Search Ends for Steamer Paringa. Melbourne
An aboriginal from the Lake Tyers station is reported to have found to-day a life boat, which may be from the steamer Paringa[?] The manager of the station (Mr. R. Glen)…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The sea search for the missing steamer Paringa has been abandoned, and the search vessel, Cape York, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fall From Steamer. Man Injured by Propeller. BRISBANE
When George King, 32, married, of Belgiumstreet, Sydney, a cook on the steamer Craigend, fell from the deck of the vessel as it was sailing down Brisbane River this morning he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glimpses of Catholic Missions Life a Mission Without a Steamer Is Like a Bird Without Wings the Plight of the Northern Solomon Islands
The following account of the disaster which took place off the coast of Bouganville last month comes from the Very Rev. Father Boch, S.M., who during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mail 'Plane Is Wrecked Brisbane
The Cloncurry weekly mail 'plane en route from Normanton to Cloncurry, in charge of Pilot Slins, met with a mishap at Wandoola station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Steamer. Clearpool Due at Sydney
The new steamer Clearpool, which was launched at West Hartlepool on the 29th August for the "Ropner" Line and left Madiera about the 7th…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Spanish Steamer Fixed For Australian Loading
The Spanish steamer Altobizkar Mendi has been chartered to load a cargo of wheat at South Australia or Victoria for Greece. This is the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Search in Vain Lighthouse Steamer Fails to Trace Paringa
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- The Commonwealth lighthouse steamer Cape York returned to Williamstown late to-day, after searching for a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Steamer. Theory as to Fate. Smouldering Coal in Bunkers. Melbourne
A report that a fire occurred in the bunkers of the steamer Paringa several days before she left on her last voyage suggests that the vessel may have foundered in heavy seas after a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Nine Die in Fierce Cyclone Steamer Capsizes & Bodies Of Crew Drift Ashore One Man Saved London
NINE, persons have perished and many have been injured in a 100-miles-an-hour gale which swept Britain…
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