N.E.S. Post Wrecked
DURING last night's brownout, vandals wrecked the NES first-aid post at St. Peter's Public…
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Coastal Steamer Gwydir Ashore After Collision
The coastal steamer Gwydir (1,929 tons), owned by the Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Co., lying off Norahville,. near Norah Head, after a collision in heavy rain early on Saturday morning. The crew of 20 and 9 male passengers are safe. The Gwydir has a hole in the port side below the bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ship Runs Ashore Beached After Collision
After the coastal steamer Gwydir (1,929 tons) had lost her cudder and one propeller in a collision with another vessel off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overseas Export Manifests Queensland American Steamer. Sailed Brisbane. Birt & Co., Ltd., agents
Central Wool Committee, 9945 bis of wool S Shipper, 59 csks pelts Central Wool Committee, 1267 bis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bomb Wreckage in Singapore
Inncessant Japanese bombing did heavy damage in Singapore. This picture, taken just before the invasion of the island, shows shops destroyed in the native quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Overseas Export Manifests Queensland American Steamer. Sailed Brisbane. Birt & Co., Ltd., agents
Central Wool Committee, 9945 bls of wool S Shipper, 59 csks pelts Central Wool Committee, 1267 bls…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Low Wage Wrecks Home
Mr. Justice Bonney, in the Divorce Court to-day, attributed the breaking up of a home to the low wage--£2 19s Gd--which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Overseas Export Manifests Queensland K.P.M. STEAMER, Sailed Brisbane, Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents
Hancock & Gore, 7 crts, 72 bdls plywood T. Tristam, 20 cs fruit cordial Plywood & Veneer Board, 10 bdls…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Battleship Bombed Into Tangled Wreck
Torn and twisted after the Japanese bombing attack on Pearl Harbor, the US 32,600 -ton battleship Arizona, is shown in this official US Navy picture resting on the bottom of the harbor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lighthouse Wrecked By Mine, Keeper Killed
LONDON.-- One lighthousekeeper was killed and another was badly injured when a drifting mine struck the Tuskar Rock some miles off the coast of Wexford (Eire) on December 2, reducing the lighthouse dwellings to a shambles and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Brazilian Steamer Torpedoed
NEW YORK, Thursday.--One person is dead and one missing from the Brazilian steamer, Buarque, which was sunk…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.--One person is dead and one missing from the Brazilian steamer, Buarque, which was sunk…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.--One person is dead and one missing from the Brazilian steamer, Buarque, which was sunk…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.--One person is dead and one missing from the Brazilian steamer, Buarque, which was sunk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Overseas Export Manifests Queensland Matson Steamer. Sailed Brisbane. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents
Biggin & Ayrton, 1288 bls wool S Shippers, 3049 bls wool G. Parmentier, 1425 bls wool W. P. Martin & Co., 407 bls wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trawlers and Steamer Sunk London
Three British bombers sank two French trawlers on Monday off Arcachon (France), states the Vichy news agency. Each…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Pocket" U-boat sinks steamer
NEW YORK, Saturday (A.A.P.). -- The steamer Olinda (4053 tons) is the second Brazilian ship sunk off the U.S. coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saved Millions From Wreck
The dramatic story of how Australian salvage experts saved £2,379,000 of gold bullion from the Union liner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →15 Escape in Tiny Ketch
Fifteen men who evacuated Kieta, New Guinea, in a tiny mission ketch, travelled 940 miles through reef-strewn seas without charts…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked Gwydir Prospects of Salvage
After an inspection of the steamer Gwydir, which is now lying on a reef 100 yards from the shore near Norahville, it is…
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