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THE 19-ton Pan-American Airways Samoan Clipper burst into flames and exploded, killing the crew of seven, when it was only 15 minutes from the safety of Pago Pago…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vancouver, Friday.--A lifebuoy and an oar which have been washed ashore on Vancouver Island are believed to be from the Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The court or inquiry into the stranding of the Stuart Star outside East London, found Captain Sinclair guilty of a breach of duty, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANOTHER bomb outrage occurred in North Queensland this morning. At 1 a.m. a bomb wrecked the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Court investigating the wreck of the Stuart Star found that Captain James Sinclair was guilty of a serious breach of duty in failing to make allowance for the inset…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London, Monday.--Bodies washed up on the Ayrshire and South Wales coasts have confirmed fears that the Glasgow coaster. Loch Shira and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sirius, the famous guardship to the First Fleet, after her arrival with Governor Phillip at Port Jackson on January 26, 1788, was utilised for many purposes by the Administrator of the infant Colony. On March 7, 1790, under command of Captain Hunter (who Was subsequently to succeed Philip as our second Governor), she left for Norfolk Island to land marines, convicts, and stores. She reached the island on March 13, landing all her passengers by the 14th. Heavy weather then kept her out to sea, but on the 18th it moderated, and Captain Hunter have to off Sydney Bay, on the scuih side of the island, to land the stores. While unloading; the Sirius drifted too far into the bay, and was unable to beat out again, as she made too much leeway and sternway. She Was then driven on the shore reef in front of the settlement, and in a few minutes she becaivz a total wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A submission that the steamer Saros stranded near Cape Everard lighthouse on Christmas Day because of an abnormally strong set of the current to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Through the disasters to the President Hoover and the Stuart Star, London marine underwriters have to part with £1,150,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four men who bought the hulk and fittings of the wrecked vessel Saros for less than £80 have had some valuable finds…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tenders are being called for the removal of the interstate coastal steamer Kakariki, wrecked with the loss of five lives in Port Phillip Bay in January,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AFTER the bitter criticism from Russia's newly-elected first Parliament, particularly of the policy towards Japan, the president (M. Molotov) and Cabinet resigned. During the debate which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Court of Marine Inquiry found to-day that the stranding of the interstate steamer Saros near Cape Everard on December 25 was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report from Cann River states that Mr. D. Allan, a Mallacoota fisherman, who paid £70 for the wreck of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Barcelona bas suffered the most disastrous air raid in the history of European warfare. The latest unofficial estimate is that six insurgent bombers, in only 90 seconds, killed 400 people and wounded 1,200…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It is reported here that an American marine insurance syndicate has paid 2,500,000 dollars (£Aust.625,000) in settlement for the total loss of the liner President Hoover (21,936…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SEVEN British seamen were killed and seven wounded when the steamer Thorpeness was bombed by rebel aeroplanes while unloading a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ITALIAN bombs dropped from Italian planes at Tarragona killed five and wounded seven members of the British freighter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE rising tide of human passion had the three of them struggling in its inexorable grip. There was Harold Shepherd, who once loved his wife and brother, but whose affections turned to bitter hatred which he…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →BASRA, Saturday.--Wreckage of a plane believed to be the Percival Vega Gull in which the French airman Christian Moench was flying from…
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