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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942

619 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 31

Brazilian Steamer Sunk in Caribbean

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 3

RIO DE JANIERO, Tuesday.--The Brazilian steamer, Aratbutan (8000 tons) has been sunk in the Caribbean Sea…

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Brazilian Steamer Sunk in Caribbean

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 4

RIO DE JANIERO, Tuesday.--The Brazilian steamer, Aratbutan (8000 tons) has been sunk in the Caribbean Sea…

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New Role Ferry Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 12 March 1942 · page 2

The former San Francisco ferry steamer San Pablo, converted into a fish reduction plant for Gen. Abelardo Rodriquez,…

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Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales K.P.M. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Nav, Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 3

Jones & Co., 26 cs and fruit P.D.S., 6 cs cheese, 11 cs honey, 1 ctn reduced cream, 1 cs ham, 3 cs end fruit, 2 cs tnd butter, 1 cs mixed…

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Japanese Mortar Wrecked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 4

A Cameronian captain had hurried away with a three-inch mortar to silence the Japanese mortar on the railway station…

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Riots in Brazil: Mobs Attack Germans Wreck Shops In Anger For Ship Sinkings New York

The Sun · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 2

Enraged by the sinking of Brazilian ships, Brazilians are smashing Axis shops at Rio de Janeiro (the capital) and beating up Germans…

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Overseas Export Manifests Queensland British Steamer. Sailed Brisbane. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 3

G. & W. Packer Pty., Ltd., 22 bls. basils Qland, State Wool Committee, 11,688 bls wool…

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Jap Planes At Rabaul Wrecked By R.A.A.F. Blow MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 14 March 1942 · page 1

Keeping up its offensive against the Japanese, the RAAF on Thursday inflicted heavy damage on enemy planes on Rabaul aerodrome. One heavy bomb exploded among 10 closely-packed…

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Japs Machine Gun. Bomb Wrecked Air Liner Grim Ordeal After Forced Broome Landing

Truth · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 19

PERTH, Saturday.—Forced down on a beach by Jap fighters near Broome with his Dutch airliner, Commander W. Smirnoff heard bullets whistle as the Japs machine-gunned the party on the beach…

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Colt Wrecks Big Plunge Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 15 March 1942 · page 13

GRAIN TRADER, winner of the Orrong Two-Year-Old at Flemington to-day, wrecked a p unge on Bobby Pearce, who was backed…

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U.s. Steamer Sunk; 21 Die

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.).--A small American steamer was sunk by a submarine on Wednesday off the Atlantic coast…

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Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales S.S. & A. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Dalgety & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 16 March 1942 · page 3

S Shippers, 5 bgs sugar, 1 bag flour, 11 bls clothing, 23 pkgs 1 csk 10 bls 23 cs 3 ctns comforts, 20 cs boiled sweets…

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Sourabaya Wreckage Dynamite Rain At Dutch Base

The Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 2

Air raid sirens were sounded in Sourabaya City and all civilians were sent into shelters when dynamiters began their work of destruction of the…

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Chile to Probe Steamer's Loss

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- The Chilean Government has ordered an inquiry into the loss of the steamer Tolten, which sank within six minutes after…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney, Union S.S. Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 2

Colgate-Palmolive Pty., Ltd., 155 cs toilet preps. Col. Sugar Ref. Co., 196 bdls caneite board…

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Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales K.P.M. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Navigation Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 March 1942 · page 3

P.D.S., 49 cs cheese, 8 cs 42 ctns cream, 8 cs jams Nestles, Ltd., 20 cs mile, 10 cs cream H. Jones & Co., 10 cs jam, 100 cs end…

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Overseas Export Manifests New South Wales K.P.M. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 19 March 1942 · page 3

Royal Packet Navigation Co., agents. P.D.S;, 49 cs cheese, 8 cs 42 ctns cream, 8 cs jams Nestles, Ltd., 20 cs milo, 10 cs cream…

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Burma Road Wrecks Armed Salvage Patrols Our War Correspondent in Burma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1942 · page 6

MANDALAY, March 18.— Forty-three Americans, formerly taxi and truck drivers, are patrolling 1,000 miles of road in…

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Law Case. Salvage of Belgian Steamer Admiralty Court Judgment

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 2

In the British Admiralty recently judgment was given in a claim to salvage award by the Bristol Channel Towage Company, Ltd., Cardiff, owners with the master and crew of the tug Blazer; R. & J. H. Rea, Ltd., Bristol, owners, with the…

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Britain's New 2-Ton Bomb Wrecked Essen ANKARA

The Sun · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 1

Did RAF bombers, in the great two-day raid on Essen last week, use the new mystery giant bombs to…

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