Luxury Launch Ashore
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Two men escaped injury when a 50ft. luxury cruiser was driven ashore at Ocean Beach, Woy Woy, early this…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951
39 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Hope for Stricken Steamer
BRISBANE, This Afternoon.--Attempts will be made to beach the stricken British freighter Paloma when two salvage tugs…
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HONGKONG, Thursday: In one of the biggest hauls in Hongkong's history, customs officers yesterday seized about £200,000 worth of gold, raw…
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MACKAY, Friday.—Salvaging of the British motorship Palasa (11,063) off Mackay becoming a race against time, but it is feared the ship nay be come a total wreck. The Palana is anchored off Pine Peak Island 90 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yacht Wrecked Struck Reef at Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, Sunday: The 28tt, Sydney yacht, Believe, Is breaking up on a reef outside Newcastle harbor. Baileve struck the reef when she…
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SUVA, Monday (AAP-Reuter) —The freighter Nimanao. formerly the Australian vessel Mootah, has become a total wreck on a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wreckage of Yacht Sighted N.Z. Search
WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday: Planes today sighted wreckage on the water off the coast of New Zealand and it is believed to be from the…
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Mrs. W. Jackson and daughter, Doreen, of Blayney, returned home last Wednesday from a very eventful holiday spent in Melbourne and Tasmania. After spending two days visiting…
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LAYTON (Chio), Friday.— American sea rescue aircraft will be equipped early next year with a radio-controlled lifeboat…
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On two successive days last week a water meter on the Lovejoy Street side of Robertson Park was wrecked by motor vehicles, and much…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woman Trapped in Wrecked Phone Box
SYDNEY, Friday: A widow, arranging for a monument on her husband grave, was trapped in a telephone booth when it was wrecked by a…
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LITHGOW. Tuesday: Traffic on the Great Western Highway, near Lithgow. today was dislocated for some time when a runaway lorry. loaded…
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SYDNEY, This Aft.--Two men believed to be underworld thugs wrecked a flat in Palmer-street, East Sydney,…
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LONDON, Monday. — Persian police and security chiefs have uncovered what is believed to be a vast Communist plot to wreck the Auglo Iranian Company’s giant oil refinery at Abadan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launch Nearly Wrecked Man Escaped Drowning
SYDNEY, Sunday: At the entrance to Broken Bay to-day two fishermen saved a 30ft launch from being wrecked at Box Head…
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CAPETOWN, Sunday: Search planes have found the wreckage of a Constellation airliner missing in West Africa since Friday with 40…
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At Blayney Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday, Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M., imposed a fine of 3 on Vladimar partell (a New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Wrecks Building Orange Aero Club's Loss
ORANGE, Thursday: A freak windstorm devastated a club house hangar and two Tiger Moth aircraft at Orange tonight. Damage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Storm Wrecks Buildings at Drome Club’s Planes Damaged
A freak, violent windstorm which suddenly struck Orange Aerodrome last night wrecked a big hangar, lifted an aeroplane off the ground, hurled it 300ft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freighter Reaches Disabled Steamer
MELBOURNE, This Aft.--The freighter Trienza reached the disabled British steamer Stanfirth to-day, but…
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