Great Explosion Wrecks Fortress Island LONDON
The great explosion of 7,000 tons of T.N.T., used by the Navy to laze the fortress of Heligoland, left the island a…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
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Plane Wreck Victim
Wing Commander B. R. O. B. Hoare, pilot of the R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito bomber which crashed on desolate Sydney Island in the…
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SYDNEY. Tuesday: Customs officials this morning raided the steamer Eastern, berthed at Walsh Bay. and seized 120 bags of sugar,…
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In a dense fog that blanketed the city and harbor this morning the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch stamer…
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SYDNEY, Friday: In a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning, the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the…
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MANILA, Thursday, The personal plane of the President of the Philippines, with fifteen government officials abroad, has been found wrecked Parts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Steamer Disaster on Great Lakes Ottawa
The Canadian Steamship Line announced that the Great Lakes steamship Emperor, of 7,031 tons, struck rocks and sank in Lake Superior…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Thieves who broke into Epping Post Office early lod[?]y and blew[?]a safe almost wrecked the office…
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SINGAPORE, Thursdayâ A British flying boat yesterday reported sighting wreckage and two persons changing to a raft about 140…
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An Austin 8 tourer was almost wrecked, and its four occupants experienced remarkable escapes from being crushed, when it got…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The auxiliary Schooner, Kuia arrived safety in sydney Haroor today 10 days overdue from [?]uckland For the past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →500 Wrecked Ships Menace Britain’s Sea Lanes Removal Task Will Take Years
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea approaches to Britain. Encircling Britain today there are still the wrecks of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A submarine lying on the sand and coral in 60 feet of water was recently seen one in[?] northwest of Heron Island, out…
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Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea…
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SYDNEY, Friday: When steering gear trouble developed aboard the 200 ton steamer. Kooraka off the South Coast near Jervis Bay last…
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BOMBAY, Friday: It is believed that nearly all the 700 passengers aboard the Indian steamer Ramades were drowned when the ship capsized…
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Twenty-three are reported killed and 1100 hurt in an explosion which partly wrecked the French Atlantic port and naval base of Brest…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. â Four people were burned to death in tragic circumstances at Corald, 10 miles from Lismore, last…
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Last Wednesday was the 90th anniversary of the wreck of the sailing ship Dunbar (1321 tons) off South Head, Sydney, in a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Australia's most baffling air mystery—the disappearance of the Southern Cloud in 1930—may be near a solution…
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