Salvaged Steamer. Dalia Reaches Sydney. Will Be Docked for Repairs
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 12
The 5,188-ton cargo steamer Dalia, owned by the South African Government, which went aground on Mecca Reef, near Thursday Island, on March 27, and was not refloated…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 3
NINETEEN charred bodies were found near the wreckage of an airliner which crashed into the side of Mt. Maranola, 80 miles south of Rome…
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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 5
The Greek steamer Mount Ossa was found to be leaking yesterday after crashing into No. 10 wharf, Walsh Bay, during an early morning fog…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Midnight Stir on Steamer Auckland
The Sun · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 3
Shortly after the little coastal steamer Ruawai left Helensville at midnight, a passenger entered the engineroom and asked to be allowed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Division of Nations on Steamer
The Sun · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 11
The liner Ormonde had a dual personality to-day when she arrived at Sydney from London--the for'ard section…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Smoke at Sea. Passing Steamer Enveloped
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 11
Soon after 6 p.m. yesterday a number of residents of Coogee saw a small steamer, several miles out to sea, apparently enveloped in thick smoke…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Welsh Trader High-class Cargo Steamer
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 5
The new cargo steamer Welsh Trader, which left Sydney yesterday morning for the United Kingdom after loading a cargo of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm-lashed Again Flood Damage Grows in N.Z. Gisborne's Water Supply Gone; Plane Wrecked AUCKLAND
The Sun · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 13
From North Cape to Wellington, New Zealand has been lashed by a fierce gale. Great seas on the coast have delayed many vessels and Hawkes Bay is threatened further disastrous floods…
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Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 5
Latest advices received from London in connection with the missing steamer Anglo-Australasian, state that the vessel is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Port St. John Ashore On Lady Elliot Island
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 4
The new motor vessel Port St. John, bound from New Plymouth to Gladstone, went ashore at Lady Elliot Island at 9 p.m. on…
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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 1
FIRST PICTURES of the Port St. John, which went aground on her maiden voyage on Lady Elliot Island, off the Queensland coast. She is reported to be in a serious Slight. Above: The ship hard aground on the beach at…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 12
Deeply laden with coal for her voyage to China, the Ready, a former interstate cargo steamer, is berthed at Circular Quay awaiting the arrival of the tugs Frosty Moller and J. A. Boyd (in tow) from Melbourne. The Ready will accompany the tugs under her own power. Chinese seamen (left) on the Ready preparing the deep-sea tow line for the Moruya, which will also be towed'to Shanghai in tandem by the Frosty Moller…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"No-Ball!" Nightmare Call That Wrecks Many a Bowler Claude Corbett's Column
The Sun · Sunday 8 May 1938 · page 25
ERNIE McCORMICK, fast bowler with the Australian team in England, is the humorist of the party, but it…
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The Sun · Sunday 8 May 1938 · page 26
Had the Tahiti failed to remain afloat until the Ventura loomed over the horizon, Sydney might have missed a dynamic personality as an…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Large Verdict to Stand £3187 For Accident On Steamer
The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 13
A verdict for £3187 is 6d, one of the largest ever awarded in a negligence case in the Supreme Court, was allowed to stand by the full Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sea Mystery. Tramp Steamer Missing. Recent Visitor to Sydney. Crew of 38. LONDON, May 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 11
Without even a wireless call for help, the British tramp steamer Anglo Australian (5,456 tons) has disappeared while on her way from the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Soviet Wreckers. Chemical Industry Suffers. Embezzlement of £40,000. MOSCOW, May 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 11
The commissar for Heavy Industry, M. Kaganovitch, has announced that the entire 1937 plan for the chemical industry has failed, because of wrecking activities…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mutiny in Danish Steamer Paris, May 11
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 11
A mutiny occurred in the Danish steamer Brigitte, off Bayonne. The crew attacked the second officer. The mutineers have been handed over to the police…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 11
The Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, Mr. Butler, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Government was forced to the conclusion that the bombing of…
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The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 7
Recent shipwrecks off the north coast of Queensland will bo investigated by the Federal Government. This was stated in the Senate…
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