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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 2 of 3

The Unsinkable Lifeboat

National Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 5

A lifeboat that is claimed to be unsinkable, uncapslzeable and self-emptying, has been invented by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. A prototype has successfully passed stringent Board of Trade tests, and the American authorities have also subjected it to…

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Launch Wrecked Woman Struggles Ashore Companion Believed Lost Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1946 · page 2

At Collaroy to-night, search parties are still looking for Ivan Plummer, 23, who is thought to have been drowned after a motor…

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Whirlwind Wrecked Wagga House— Children Escape

Central Western Daily · Saturday 19 October 1946 · page 2

A two-year-old boy and his six-months-old sister slept through a violent whirlwind which wrecked…

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Mystery Ketch Lone Sailor's Return After Five Months Three Friends Die at Sea

National Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: With only one of her crew of four still alive, the 45-ft ketch Nova was wrecked on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia,…

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Ketch Tragedy Survivor Strengthened by Mate's Dying Request

National Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

NOUMEA (New Caledonia), Monday: James Cash (36), sole survivor of the tragic voyage of the ketch, Nova, said today that…

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Probing the Mystery of the Ketch, Nova

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Detectives from N.S.W. and Queensland have started a through investigation of…

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Ketch Tragedy Close Inquiry by Police SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 4

Detectives in NSW and Queensland have started a thorough investigation of the circumstances which led to the sea tragedy aboard the ketch…

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Ketch Tragedy Sydney, Wednesday

National Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 3

Information gained by Sydney police support the story of the ketch survivor as regards whether the ketch was blown out to sea and its…

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Ketch Survivor to Have No Visitors

National Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 5

NOUMEA. New Saledonia. Thursday: Doctors has instructed the James Cush. the sole survivor of a crew of four from the ketch Nova, is…

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Inquiry on Launch Wreck

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Sydney police have asked Noumea to bold an inquiry into the arrived of the launch Nova in New Caledonia…

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Man Burned Trawler Wrecked By Explosion

National Advocate · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Charles William Pails (34), engineer, was severely burned when the upper clerk of a trawler was wrecked by an explosion…

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Mail Stolen from Steamer

National Advocate · Monday 11 November 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday: A report from Thursday Island late tonight, says that seven bags of mail on ,the steamer Wandana had been rifled when the…

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Sudden Gale Wrecks Houses in Sydney Sydney

Central Western Daily · Thursday 14 November 1946 · page 1

When a sudden gale, with the wind reaching 80 miles an hour, struck Sydney this afternoon houses were damaged,…

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Transport Plane Wrecked Crash Near French-Italian Border

National Advocate · Thursday 21 November 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday: Rescue patrols are setting out for the French-Italian border Alps in an attempt to reach the passengers and crew of a…

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Jewish Terrorist Bomb Wrecks Tax Building

Central Western Daily · Friday 22 November 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Thursday—The entire building, housing income tax and Press censorship authorities in St. Louis Road, in the centre of Jerusalem, was destroyed by a Jewish terrorist bomb yesterday…

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FLASHES from our NEWSROOM Shipwreck? LONDON

Central Western Daily · Monday 25 November 1946 · page 1

Three bodies and two ship’s lifeboats, washed ashore near St. David’s Head, indicate that the ship, Empire Albany, was wrecked…

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Lang the Wrecker Mr. Chifley's Views

National Advocate · Saturday 30 November 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday: Mr. J. T. Lang was endeavoring to attach "half of himself" to the Australian Country Party said the Prime Minister (Mr…

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Vandals Wreck Showground Buildings

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 1

Damage estimated at scores of pounds has been caused to buildings at the Orange Showground by vandals. All the glass windows in the poultry pavilion have been smashed together with most of the windows at one end of the main pavilion…

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Supplies for Shipwrecked Jews

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 December 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Tuesday: Another RAAF plane from Palestine will drop more supplies today to the 800 illegal Jewish refugees shipwrecked on an island…

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Shipwrecked Jews Will Be Admitted to Palestine

Central Western Daily · Monday 16 December 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Sunday.— The Palestine Government has announced that it has been decided to admit,…

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