Bomb Wrecks Phone Box
LONDON, Wednesday. -- A telephone box at Liverpool was wrecked by a bomb explosion at midnight…
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Coastal Steamer Back on Run
Having spent several days on the slips, s.s. Tuncurry, seaworthy and certificated, is back in active commission on her coastal run…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Vessel Wrecked in Hurricane. Loyalty Islands Report
The 188-ton motor vessel Le Phoque was wrecked on Ouvea, one of the Loyalty Islands, on the night of March 25. in a fierce hurricane…
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WRECKAGE OF TRUCKS and scattered freight after a goods train on Friday crashed at a washaway on the main railway line from Melbourne to Albury, near Benalla. (Floods subside, Page 4, Column 7)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Schooner Lost. Koepang, April 18. (A.A.P.)
The Australian schooner Eileen, bound from Darwin to Koopang (Timor), and carrying Mr. Clark, a Darwin pearler, and Mr. Cross, a pearl buyer, and also a crew of two Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Rowanbank at Port Pirie Chinese-built Wartime Standard Steamer
The Bank Line steamer Rowanbank, one of a number of standard wartime vessels built at Hongkong to replace tonnage sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will The Country Party Wreck The Government?
WHAT does the Country Party hope to achieve by its present attitude of obstructionism, opposition,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Served Schooner For Pint: Fined
NEWCASTLE, Friday. -- An hotel licensee was fined £2 at the Newcastle Summons Court today for having sold a schooner of beer when a customer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Why Earl Took Dutch Steamer London
Replying to the criticisms that he travelled in a Dutch ship after demanding assistance for British ships in his speeches in Australia, Earl…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ketch Day Overdue
The 30ft. ketch Hispaniola is 24 hours overdue at Lord Howe Island, the first leg of a projected Pacific crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Schooner Not Pint Of Beer
A pint of beer at ninepence is a pint of beer -- 20 fluid ounces. A schooner of beer at ninepence, over the same bar, is not a pint…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →6 Lives Lost in Lifeboat Disaster. London, April 23. (A.A.P.)
It is officially announced that six lives were lost when the Cullercoats (Northumberland) motor lifeboat capsized in breakers during a practice run. Rescuers saved some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Liner Freed From Wreck London
The big French liner, Normandie, was successfully manoeuvred past the wreck of the burned liner. Paris, at Havre when taken from dry dock…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overdue Ketch No Cause for Worry
Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. George O'Brien, occupants of the 30ft. ketch Hispaniola, are not worrying because the ketch is 48 hours' overdue at Lord Howe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ketch Forced Back Hispaniola At Palm Beach
Sixteen days out from Sydney, the ketch Hispaniola arrived at Palm Beach last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Shops Wrecked. Bombs at Liverpool. LONDON, April 26. (A.A.P.)
Five shops in various parts of Liverpool were partially wrecked by bombs early this morning. No one was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Englbh Lifeboat. "Australians Might Contribute." LONDON, April 27. (A.a P.)
The Duke of Kent presided at the annual meeting of the National lifeboat Association. The chairman of the association, Sir Godfrey Baring, said that Australians might be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ship Makes Old Salts Stake Two-Masted Schooner Comes To Sydney
Old salts rubbed their eyes when they saw a two-masted schooner sail into Sydney Harbor yesterday. She was the American sailing vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sails In Sydney Town Romance Takes Two Of Schooner's Crew Stay Behind with Brides As Henrietta Sails North
The American schooner Henrietta which arrived in Sydney from the United States last October brought romance for two Victorian girls. It returned to Sydney from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fishing Vessel Wrecked. Perth
The fishing schooner Kia Ora, of Geraldton, struck a reef 50 yards from sh[?]re, 40 miles north of G[?]raldton, on Tuesday night, and broke her back…
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