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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Passengers by Steamer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—The , Federal Government has arranged for the transport of passengers to Queensland and New Zealand in the…

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Passengers by Steamer

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—The overseas steamer Empire Clarendon, leaving Sydney for Brisbane about January 17, has been granted…

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Wrecked Ship Is Dangerous

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

Byron Bay Progress Committee at a meeting drew attention to the danger caused by the American small ship, Tassie III., which was…

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Charred Wreckage Of Plane Found

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Sun.—Thought to be the remains of an R.A.F. machine which has been missing for some time, a wrecked plane…

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To Examine Plane Wreckage

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.—Police and R.A.A.F. experts will travel on horseback to Barrington Tops, 47 miles from Scone, to-morrow, to…

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Explosion Wrecks Royal Navy Lighter

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—When a Royal Navy 50ft. lighter, with three men aboard, blew up at 8 a.m. to-day, the blast rocked harbourside homes and shook the aircraft repair ship, Perseus, moored practically alongside, near Kirribilli Point…

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Fifty Years Ago Woolgoolga Wreck

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 4

A correspondent telegraphed from Woolgoolga: "The steamer Orara is on broadside to the sea again, and half full of sand. The…

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Efforts to Rescue Wrecked Tanker

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 3

KODIAK (Alaska). Sun. — A Navy tug has made radar contact with what may be the drifting forepart of the wrecked Russian…

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Germans Drowned When Steamer Sinks

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Mon.—Ninety-five passengers were drowned yesterday when a river steamer from Hamburg, bound for Cuxhaven,…

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More Bodies Washed Ashore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 3

HOBART, Tues.—Three more bodies have been washed ashore from the A.N.A. airliner which crashed in the sea off Seven-mile…

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Thousands Homeless Tidal Wave Leaves Mass Of Wreckage

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 1

HONOLULU, Wed.—Rescue Workers digging through the wreckage of the sea-battered city of Hilo thus far have recovered 60 bodies. Workers could see the bodies of thirty more…

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Explosion Wrecks Destroyer Escort

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wed.—Three explosions aboard the destroyer escort Solar virtually demolished the ship and destroyed the ammunition warehouse at Earle, New Jersey, where the ship was unloading ammunition, and blew a huge gaping hole in the…

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Ketch Found Beached

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday.—The plane searching for the stolen ketch found it beached 60 miles north of Perth to-day. One man was on…

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Man Arrested for Removing Ketch

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 3

PERTH, Thurs.—Police to-day arrested a man believed to have removed the £2000 ketch Mana-koora, from Fremantle on…

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Heavy Sea Wrecks Fishing Boat

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 2

LISMORE, Sun.—When a heavy sea came up suddenly in Byron Bay on Friday night, Messrs. Feros and Feros' fishing…

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Youths Help Load Dutch Steamer

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Dutch steamer Tasman was loaded with H luggage by teen-age Dutch youths to-day…

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Steamer Hits Mine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sun.—The Netherlands steamer Meerkerk (8000 tons) bound from Rotterdam to Australia, struck a mine near…

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Three Years' Gaol For Stealing Ketch

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 1

PERTH, Thurs. A man was sentenced to three years' gaol to-day with hard labour for having stolen a ketch valued at £2000…

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Gas Explosion Kills 8: Wrecks Buildings

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 1

0NSET (Massachusetts), Fri.--A gas explosion which officials a few hours earlier tried to avert killed eight and injured at least 60 persons in addition to demolishing four buildings in the, centre of Onset, a summer resort…

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Plane Search For Drifting Ketch

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 August 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--A flying boat has left Cairns to search for an auxiliary ketch adrift in the Torres Strait. The ketch Yalpa…

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