Orungal Wreck Sold Melbourne
The A.U.S.N, Company announced to-day that the wreck of the Orungal has been purchased as she stands on the eastern reef at Barwon Heads…
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Campaign to Wreck Aid Plan
"It Is foolish to under-estimate the extent or the bitterness of the opposition which is now being marshalled against President Roosevelt's plan to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Orungal sold for £1125
MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The wrecked interstate liner Orungal, which cost £500,000, was bought for £1125 this morning from Lloyd's of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Supposed Wreckage From Steamer Holmwood
According to a New Zealand paper, a vessel which was sent to the Chatham Islands, after the disappearance of the Holmwood,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swedish "Spec" Steamer Sold
The steamer of 2950 tons deadweight, built "on spec," at Helsingborgs Varv and sold to the A/B. Transmarin, Helsingborg,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Victoria Burns Philp Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Burns Philp & Co., Ltd., agents
J. Kitchen '& Sons, 1720 cs soap. Chas. Rawolt, 20 pkgs machinery. Nestles Milk Co., Ltd., 48 cs milk powder, 2 cs spoon measures, 1 cs labels, 8450 cs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bomb Wrecks Italian's Room MELBOURNE
Less than two minutes after an Italian, Carmini di Rosato, had dashed from his bedroom at his home at Beech Forest…
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Lightray, a 60-foot ketch, belonging to the recently-banned sect of Johovah's Witnesses, was seized yesterday by State and Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ordeal in Open Lifeboat. Four Saved; 12 Dead. OTTAWA, Jan. 21. (A.A.P.)
Four survivors of the torpedoed British steamer Carlton (5,162 tons) have arrived at an eastern Canadian port. They had spent 18 days in an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Italian Steamer Seized In U.S.A. Port
The Italian steamer Ida Z. O., 4935 tons gross, which has been tied up at Mobile since Italy entered the war, was seized on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greek Steamer in Distress. Manila, Jan. 21. (A.A.P.)
An SOS message has been intercepted from the Greek steamer Aghia Thaiassinl (3.508 tons) stating that she has a broken helm and is badly damaged and partly flooded north-east ot the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales Port Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gibbs, Bright & Co., agents
H. Little. & Co., 22 crcs 'fr pork, 4046 crcs fr lamb, 165 bgs lamb hearts, 51 bgs sheep hearts, 6 bgs beef tongues, 58 bgs beef livers, 3 cs 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. Shaw Savill Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents
Egg Marketing Board, 10,000 cs eggs Australian Wheat Board, 16,000 sks flour (1000 tons) Model Business College Comfort Fund,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not Allowed Ashore
MRS. R. SOLOMONIS, from Berlin, who is not permitted to land from a Japanese ship now in Sydney. She has been refused permission to visit her son in a New South Wales internment camp, and intends to go on to New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Steamer Safe
Rumours which have been current in Sydney that the Huddart Parker line steamer Zealandia had been sunk by enemy action were officially denied yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Orungal's Fate "Whelan the Wrecker" Takes Charge
Mr. J. Whelan, a member of the well known Melbourne firm of Whelan the Wrecker, has bought the fire-scarred, hull of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wrecked Plane Found. Disappeared in May. FOUR R.A.A.F. Victims. Melbourne
Wieckage of the R.A.A.F. Avro-Anson bomber, which disappeared while flying from Point Cook to Camden (N.S.W.) in May last year, was found to-day at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To Visit Wreck of Bomber Melbourne
Medical and salvage parties left Pt. Cook, early to-day by car to inspect the wreckage of the large aircraft, which, with four bodies,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 25, 1941. War Supplies and Wreckers
Sir Bertram Stevens's appointment as Australian representative on the Eastern Group Supply Council at Delhi will give satisfaction to the many…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Bomb Sandbagged In Smokeroom, Steamer Makes Port LONDON
From two oceans thousands of miles apart today come stories of magnificent courage true to the best British sea traditions. In the Mediterranean, rather than betray British…
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