River Steamer Refloated Murray Incident
SYDNEY, Friday: A Jock was opened today to refloat the £22,000 paddle steamer Wanera, which ran ag[?]und on a sand bank in the Murray Rives…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
21 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Wreckage on Sea Bottom May Provide Clues to Jet Explosion All Comets Temporarily Grounded
LONDON, Tues.--British Overseas Airways Corporation announced last night they were temporarily suspending normal passenger services of their Comet jet airliner. This action followed Sunday night's Comet crash in the Mediterranean with a loss of 35 lives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comet Wreckage Salvaged Check for Faults
PORT ELLA, Friday: Four piece of the wreckage of the Comet [?] which crashed into the Ocean [?] Elba 11 days ago were recovered be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Search for Plane Wreck
ABROAD FRIGATE WRANGLER. [?]off Elbao Tuesday. — The motor trawler, Favilla, searching for the wreck of a British Comet Jetliner…
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PORTO AZZURO (Elba), Monday.—The Royal Navy has completed plans to raise the wreckage of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stop Press Body Washed Ashore at Shellharbor
Police today found the body of a man washed up on the beach at Shellharbor on the South Coast. They believe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flats Wrecked by Explosion
MARSEILLES, Wed.-- A violent explosion killed two men and buried a woman under falling masonry in a…
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A group of men and police with a large winch, worked for more than four hours yesterday to recover a wrecked tourist bus from a deep gully…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion Wrecks Statue
GEORGETOWN, (British Guina), Thursday.— The head of Queen Victoria's statue was blown off by dynamite early yesterday. The left arm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Utility wrecked; hit tree
A new utility truck was wrecked when it struck a pine tree on the drive at Orange Golf Club…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Public Phone Wrecked Man's Action in Fit of Rage
When a telephone conversation with a girl friend had not proved to his satisfaction , an English migrant tore the telephone from…
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ROME, Thursday: The resignation of the Italian Government was demanded last night by left wing parties following the arrest of the two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreckers Must Go Threat to Labor Movement
CANBERRA, Tuesday: The leader of the Federal Opposition (Dr. Evatt) announced tonight that he would bring before the next meeting of the A.L.P., Federal Executive, what he called the matter of a…
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THE HAGUE, Tuesday.— Fire which raged aboard the 3,099-ton Norwegian steamer Folga after she…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hazelton finds his plane wreckage Bid to Salvage
Toogong charter pilot, Max Hazelton, yesterday found the wreckage of the plane m which he crashed in die Blue Mountains a…
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A salvage party on Saturday battled through dense bush and swamp land to bring charter pilot Max Hazelton’s crashed Auster…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire in plane wreck
MELBOURNE, Monday.— The evidence which experts hoped would reveal the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Taxi Found Wrecked Near Mandurama
A taxi cab stolen frown a garage at Cowra on Friday night was found next day near Mandurama…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Bomb Wrecks Building
LONDON, Tuesday: A wartime bomb, wrecked a building in High Holborn, London, yesterday, and severely injured two men. The blast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecks Blown Up
COPENHAGEN. — Five hundred World War II wrecks have now been blown up in Danish waters,…
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