Christian Moench. Plane Wreckage Found. BAGDAD, Jan. 23
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 13
Wreckage from the plane in which Christian Mcench was making an attempt to fly in record time from Saigon to Paris has been found in the Persian Gulf, near Bandar Abbas…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wreck Pays a Good Dividend Melbourne
The Sun · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 3
The wrecked freighter Saros has proved a valuable speculation for the men who have become financially interested in the hulk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keeping Up With the Celebrations Further Extracts from the Diary of a Nervous Wreck
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1938 · page 19
WELL, here we are, a hundred and fifty years old -- and, believe me, I feel it…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Saros Wreck. Charge Against Master. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 9
The Court of Manne Inquiry began the hearing to-day of a charge laid by the Director of Navigation, Captain John K. Davis, against Captain John…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stop-press Saros Wreck
The Sun · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 1
Melbourne Marine Court unanimously decided that Captain Aitken of the wreck steamer Saros, was deserving of censure. It added that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak Gale In Scotland Wrecks Planes LONDON
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 3
A FREAK gale wrecked eight out of 20 bombers belonging to two R.A.F. squadrons at Evanton Aerodrome in Ross-shire,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Sloop Attended by the Pilot Steamer
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 14
The French sloop, Rigault de Genouilly, which arrived yesterday with other visiting warships for the celebrations, lying one mile off the Heads, as the pilot steamer, Captain Cook, attends her. Alongside the sloop is the boarding boat and its crew, putting the pilot aboard. Other pictures of the warships appear on page 16…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →First Australian Ship Built in North Manning River Pioneer Launches "Smart Little Schooner" in 1834
The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 9
IT has often been remarked in the columns of "The Farmer and Settler" that no apparent effort is being made to record the pioneering history of Australia, which becomes more precious and romantic as the years carry us rapidly into modernity and an ease of living that would have made our forbears dumb with envy, could they have visioned it. How many people…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Big Profit From Wreck. £61 Yields £600. MELBOURNE
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 12
The wreck of the Saros, which was bought "as she lies" on a granite ledge near the shore at Cape Everard, for £61, has proved an excellent investment for Mr. D. Allan, of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Smashed on Rocks Wreck of Launch Lifesavers In Rescues
The Sun · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 10
The 30-foot launch, Dee Why, was smashed to matchwood on the rocks at the southern end of Whale…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Newcastle Congress Steamer. a Correction
Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 26
An error inadvertently crept into the advertisement and reading matter in connection with the Newcastle Congress special steamer that will carry…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Life-savers' Bravery. Launch Wrecked. Two Men Rescued in Heavy Seas
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 13
Two men had a desperate struggle for life in heavy seas and were badly battered on the rocks when their launch broke down off Whale Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ice Wrecks Bridge At Niagara MONTREAL
The Sun · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 5
The worst ice jam on record swept away the Niagara Falls bridge, linking the United States and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Epic Rescues in Wreck Disabled Launch Swamped Two Rendered Unconscious Near Rocks
The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 5
LEAVING two men unconscious and a third-man swimming desperately towards Jagged rocks, a disabled 24ft. cabin launch, the Dee…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Drowned on Holiday Wife Sees Man Dashed to Death by Heavy Surf Bodies of Two Missing; Launch Wrecked
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 9
FOUR persons were drowned yesterday, three men in heavy surf on the South Coast, and a boy in a creek at Mullumbimby. One of the men was dashed to death on the rocks at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Films From Wreck. Scenes on Pourquoi Pas. (Published in "The Times") LONDON, Jan. 27
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 14
[?] Paris correspondent of "The Times" says: "Five films were found half-buried in the sand on the Iceland coast within three miles of the spot where Dr. Chalcot's vessel,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Paris Explosion. Death Roll 14; Seven Hurt. Many Houses Wrecked. Paris, Jan. 27
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 14
It has now been established that 14 men were killed, and that at least five women and two men were injured by the explosion of 5000 hand grenades that occurred at the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →"210 Planes Wrecked" Shanghai
The Sun · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 5
Tremendous destruction of Chinese planes is claimed by the Japanese naval spokesman. He states that Japanese planes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women's Interests. Parties on Ship and Ashore. Officers of Visiting Warships Entertained
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 18
Cocktail parties and dances were held in Sydney yesterday in honour of the officers of the visiting warships, and many guests spent the day going from…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →High Adventure "The Wreck of the Grosvenor," by Jonathan Lee; London, Methuen
The Sun · Sunday 30 January 1938 · page 16
THE nightmare which lasted 117 days and ended when the survivors of the East Indiaman Grosvenor, an exhausted and ragged band…
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