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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1940

522 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 27

More U-boats Sunk. One Rammed by Steamer. Navy Loses Trawler. LONDON, Feb. 25. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1940 · page 10

Reports are current in London that four more U-boats have been sunk. Two were destroyed in the North Sea, one was sunk off the coast of…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Queensland Blue Funnel Steamer. Sailed Brisbane. WiIIs, Gilchrist & Sanderson, Pty., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 26 February 1940 · page 3

Sundry Shippers, 140 butts frz beer, 407 bgs b'less beef. T. Borthwick & Sons, Ltd., 360 crops, 180 hinds frz beef, 50 cres pork…

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Only Magazines Will Bring Sailor Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 2

A marine engineer who has been on the same ship for 20 years never goes ashore in port except to buy second-hand magazines. He is Mr. Hugh McLeod, of…

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Schooner Drinking As Antidote For Snakes MOREE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 5

Schooner-drinking competitions are recommened as an antidote to intense heat, drought, grasshoppers, rabbits, blowflies, and snakes. In putting this forward, Mr…

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Export Manifests Sydney Amended. Burns, Philp Steamer Sailed Sydney. Burns, Phllp & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 3

East Asiatic Co., 1021 bgs flour (25 tons) S Shippers, 2538 eres mutton, 50 bxs butter, 22 pkgs mutton, 7 cs fish, 55…

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U-Boat, Steamer Collide LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

The Norwegian wooden steamer Annfin (729 tons) is believed to have sunk a U-boat in the North Sea last night…

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Says Dunstan Wrecker

Daily News · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Sir Stanley Argyle, U.A.P. Parliamentary leader, fit his policy speech at Malvern to-night made a bitter…

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Schooner Founders in Storm. Stockholm, Feb. 29. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 12

The Nova Scotian schooner [?] [?]dered during a storm in the North Atlantic. The swedish motorship Sagoland (3,200 tons) picked up the crew after waiting for 36 hours…

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Cheated Death In Launch Wreck

Daily News · Saturday 2 March 1940 · page 3

Two men, one of whom could not swim, cheated death when trapped in a launch in the boiling sea near…

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TARZAN Safe [?] Ashore

The Sun · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 13

Tarzan shouted down: "Hold fast. I'll untic this end and pull you ashore." He loosened the rope. The muscles of his arms and…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. Union Trans-pacific Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Union Steamship Co. of N.Z., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 3

Prod. Co-op. Dist. Society, Ltd., 13 bxs butter, 10 cs tnd butter Union S.S. Co., 10 cs tnd butter S Shippers, 1 pel carbon paper, 5 bgs…

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£2500 Wreck Claim Captain's Towers Counsel On "Barratry"

The Sun · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 7

Suggestions of barratry over the tug Atlantic, which was wrecked on Flinders Reef on June 11 last year,…

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Ice Sinks Steamer: Saved From Altmark

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 5

MASTS OF the Dutch steamer De Rijverheid, showing above the ice-pack that crushed and sank the vessel in the Waal River last month in Holland's coldest winter in history.-- Airmail…

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Export Manifests Sydney Amended. British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

Metropolitan Meat Industry Commissioner, 51 csks tallow (25 tons) Dalgety & Co., Ltd., 20 csks tallow (9 tons)…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Victoria British-india Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

Co-op. Dried Fruit Sales, 150 cs sultanas. Ilancocks Golden Crust, 9 cartons macaroni. Austral Canning Co., 5 cs dripping, 88 cs tnd butter…

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Wrecked Tug. Insurance Claim. Atlantic's Story Told in Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 13

In the Supreme Court yesterday before Mr. Justice Hales Rogers and a jury, the hearing was begun of a suit in which Rupert Mills Fletcher…

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Wreckage Seen in Sea. Lost Airliner. LONDON, March 4. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 12

Wreckage of the Imperial Airways liner Hannibal, which disappeared on a flight from India to England, has been located. There is faint hope that…

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"Barratry" in Dispute Legal Conflict On Tug Wreck

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

Conflicting views as to the meaning of the word "barratry" were advanced by counsel in the Commercial Causes Court to-day…

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Empire Plane Wrecked In Sea

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.--Wreckage of the Empire flying-boat Hannibal, which was lost on Friday, was sighted in the Persian…

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Suggestion Of fraud In Insurance Claim Wrecked Tug, Man Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 8

A suggestion that the tug Atlantic was lost through barratry near Brisbane on June 11,1939, was made in…

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