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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

41 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 3

Warning to Hotels Restriction on Schooner Sales

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday: Hotelkeepers who refused to serve schooners of beer when open for trade between 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Monday to Friday…

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Wreckage of Bomber Found Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 1

Police and RAAF experts will travel on horse to Barrington Tops, 47 miles from Scone tomorrow, to view the wreckage of what is believed to be a…

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Search for Wrecked 'Plane Party Leaves Today

National Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Departure of the Air Force party to investigate the discovery of the wreckage of a twin engined aircraft found at Barrington…

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“Tars of the Air Mike Fright Nearly Wrecked Her Career Ngaire Thomson Now Well Dug in with the A.B.C.

Central Western Daily · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 2

HAVING early decided on a care[?] in [?]Thomson worked hard preparing for her first [?] Then at what…

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Rescues From Wrecked Ship

National Advocate · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: More half frozen women and children have been revised by launch from the ice covered decks of the ship Yukon which…

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German River Steamer Sinks; 95 Lives Lost London

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 3

[?] passenger were dros[?]when a river steamer from Hamburg, bound for Cl[?] sank in the Elbe Estuary,…

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Victorian Floods Still Wreck Havoc MELBOURNE, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 1

Rescue boats are operating over a wide area of western Victoria to-day in efforts to tiring to 'safety hundreds of people still…

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Search for Lancastrian Wreckage Clue

National Advocate · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 1

PERTH. Sunday: It is now likely that the search for the Lancastrian plane, which, with 10 men board, vanished a week- ago en route from…

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Whales Washed Ashore Melbourne

National Advocate · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 3

A school of blacklist shales, washed ashore on 90 Mile Beach, will be left there to rot. The whales are of a species of no commercial value and…

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Lighter Ashore

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 April 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A naval lighter with 300 tons of ammunition in board broke from its moorings and ran ashore on a sandbak at Alton…

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The Comrades Wreck Our Chances

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 9

The definite cancellation of six million pounds worth of orders from the Dutch East Indies, as a result of the Communist…

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Steamer Chasing Drifting Trawler, Off Sydney. Sydney

Central Western Daily · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 1

The trawler Pahau (300 tons) which broke adrift from the steamer Matai, 200 miles east of Sydney, on the passage across from New…

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“A Few Wreck to Gain Control” Sydney

Central Western Daily · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

A strong warning against Communism was given by Lieut.-General Sir Leslie…

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Rhine Free Clearing the Wreckage LONDON

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 1

It is officially announced that the Rhine has now been cleared of wreckage and mines from Basle, Switzerland, to its…

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Steamer Returning to Coastal Trade

National Advocate · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: The steamer Canberra, which has been re-fitted after wartime service as a food ship will return to the Australian coastal…

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1,600 Miles in Ketch in 15 Days

Central Western Daily · Friday 19 July 1946 · page 3

Former Sydney [?] driver, Geo[?] has returned to Sydney with his wife taking a [?] to New [?]…

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Hope for Survivors in Hotel Wreckage Abandoned by Doctors Jerusalem

Central Western Daily · Friday 26 July 1946 · page 2

Relays of engineers attached to the Sixth Airborne Division are still searching the great pile of rubble of…

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Ketch Missing

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: There is still no word from the 90ft. ketch Yalta which, with the captain and four members of the crew aboard, is adrift…

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Lost Ketch Found

National Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1946 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday: The RAAF has announced that a 60 ton auxiliary ketch Yalta, which had been missing off North Queensland, was safe at…

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“Saturday Closing May Wreck Country Businessmen”

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 4 September 1946 · page 7

If shops in country towns were not open at times to suit the people of the surrounding districts those people would be…

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