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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948

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

Guns Missing From Steamer Sydney, Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 1

Detectives of CIB pillage squad are trying to trave 10 12-gliage Winchester shotguns, which have disappeared from cargo on the Bedeford…

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Steamer in Serious Distress New York

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

With a crew of 53 aboard the American freighter Adrian Victory, bound from Port Tampa for Bremen with supplies for the American…

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Communist Plan to Wreck Marshall Aid

Central Western Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 3

BERLIN, Thursday—[?] Communist master plan [?] to block the [?] plan with waves of [?]…

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Happy Ending to Shipwreck Nine Migrants Adopted In South Africa

Central Western Daily · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

CAPETOWN, Wednesday. — The story of crew of the yawl Southern Star, which foundered on its way to Australia from England, has changed to a sudden happy ending…

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U.S. Ketch Owner Coming by His Boat Washington

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 1

At least one American desiring to settle m Australia is not concerned by either the steamship accommodation problem or passage subsidies…

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Victorian Ketch in Lead Trans-Tasman Race

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Victorian ketch Kurrowa ill has increased her lead over Seaward to 60 miles in the trans-Trasman…

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"Wreckage" Was Log Kiandra Search SYDNEY, Friday

National Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

What was thought, to be the wreckage of a plane about five miles from Klandia, north of Mount Koscuisko was only a white log…

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Fire on Steamer

Central Western Daily · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

LONG [?] Sunday . (AAP-Reuter). [?] passage[?] dead and [?] were [?]…

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Ketch Expected in Sydney Today

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Victorian ketch Kurreva III. competing in the Trans-Tasman yacht race is now making good headway under…

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Newspaper Office Wrecked More Violence in Palestine

National Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 2

JERUSALEM, Monday: An explosion last night virtually demolished the Palestine Post building in jerusalem…

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Arab Attack on Newspaper Building Wrecked

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 4

JERUSALEM, Monday.— An explosion last night virtually demolished the Palestine Post building in…

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Four Missing Fishing Launch Wrecked Brisbane, Wednesday

National Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 7

Four men are believed to have drowned today when a small fishing launch struck a rock and sank in heavy seas off Bustard lighthouse…

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Steamer on Fire

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Thursday: A report was received this afternoon from the steamer Willaston was on fire 40 miles east of Alport Islands in Investigator…

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May Wreck Marshall Plan Fear in Britain

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday: Reports that Britain can expect to get direct relief out of the slump in America's commodity prices are discounted in…

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Shark Attacks Lifeboat Stockton Incident

National Advocate · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sunday: At Stockton beach, near Newcastle, today, a ten foot shark attacked a surfboat in which lifesavers were fishing…

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Canoe Wrecked Grafton

National Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 1

A canoe trip down the Clarence River by two Sydney youths ended when they were swept over low falls and the canoe wrecked…

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News Items In Brief Two Rail Wrecks

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 1

ZURICH. Monday. — Between 14 and 20 people were killed in a railway crash at Waedonswil, on the southern shore of Lake…

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Macarthur Used It £11,000 Luxury Schooner Burnt to Waterline

National Advocate · Friday 5 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: An 85 feet luxury schooner valued at £11,000 was burned to the waterline and sank at her moorings near Newport today…

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British Ship Wrecked; 14 Drowned

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 3

REYKJAVIK, Monday —Fourteen members of the crew of 19 of the British trawler, Epine, perished [?]…

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S.E.A. Is Wrecking The Ulan Scheme (To the Editor)

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 8

Sir.—The chairman of the State Electricity Authority, Mr. V. F. J. Brain, recently visited' Coonabara-Brain and advised that council…

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