Queen Mary Runs Ashore in Big Storm
LONDON, Sunday.—In calm, sunny weather this morning, six tugs eased the liner Queen Mary off the sand bar near Cherbourg, where she had been driven ashore by…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
41 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 3
Fishing Craft Wrecked
GRAFTON, Wednesday: Several fishing craft were wrecked near Iluka (Clerence Heads) today, when a 30 mph wind worked up a choppy sea…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: Damage enured by yesterday's gale in Victoria is still being assessed, but it is probably less than was feared last night…
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The master of the interstate freighter Kooralya, Captain H. T. John, said to-day that an attempt was made to wreck the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coastal Vessel Wrecked Off Kiama--Twelve Missing WOLLONGONG, This Afternoon
A ship's fireman, who floated all night in a lifebelt, and another seaman are the only survivors so far picked tip from the 540-ton coastal steamer Bombo, which is reported to have sunk off the South Coast about 10.30 last night with a crew…
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V[?]aile on a voyage from Kiama to Sydney yesterday, the ' coastal steamer "Bombo" of 539 tons, struck very heavy seas…
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SYDNEY, WEDNESDAY.—Just before dusk fell tonight aircraft, launches rescue tugs and land watchers were engaged in an intensive search for survivors and…
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The 22,000 ton liner "Orion" nearly went ashore in Port Melbourne yesterday. As the big steamer left the wharf…
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At least 10 Chinese were killed and 30 badly hurt; in an explosion on the, 300 tons; Nanking-Canton steamer Nigho, in the Pearl River,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →21 Dead in Air Crash No Survivors From Coolongatta Disaster Victims Perish in Wreckage BRISBANE
Twenty-one people were burnt to death, when a Lockheed Lodestar aeroplane crashed from a height of 100 feet at Billinga airstrip near Coolangatta this morning…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Some person, who has a grudge against telephones is again active in the Bondi district. About 12 months ago, working…
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Six elderly worshippers were killed and dozens injured yesterday when at explosion destroyed St. Mary's Catholic…
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Guayaquil, (Ecuador), Wed. More than 20 passengers, including women and children, are believed have died as the result of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launce Wreckage Found Newcastle Incident NEWCASTLE
The wr[?]ge of a large, open fish[?] launch was washed up on Bar[?] Newcastle, early today. Broken plangs and other wreckage…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Hundreds oil people watched the dramatic rescue of four men from a wrecked submarine at Fairlight Point on the West…
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LAS PALM AS, Sunday— Officials boarded the Belgian steamer, Christian, and shot the Jaguar which escaped from…
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WARSAW, Sunday.—Armed men broke into a Communist meeting near Cracow this week and killed three…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon. -- The Italian freighter Orione was driven ashore by violent winds in Sydney Harbor to-day and she is now fast on the rocks. It has not yet been ascertained how badly the shin has…
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Five Belgian engineroom ratings are believed to have been killed when the 2,9350 ton Belgian cross-channel steamer, Princess Astrid, foundered…
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LOS ANGELES, Tuesday: An Australian girl Emily B[?]eingston, and her two [?]thers, [?] and John, have reached Los Angeles in the…
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