Missing Ketch Safe
MELBOURNE, Friday:-- The R. A. A. F. has announced that the 60-ton auxiliary ketch, Yalta, which had been missing off North'…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
35 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2
Pacific Island Being Wrecked By Eruption
SUVA, Tues.-- A volcanic eruption was devastating the isolated island of Niaufoou, in the Tongan group, 450 miles…
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LONDON, Mon.--Experts who landed by helicopter on the Kentish mudflat for the first time, examined the wreckage of the…
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The Royal Australian Navy tug boat, "Waree," with 21 on board went aground at the entrance to the Clarence River shortly after noon yesterday during exceptionally heavy seas. The captain, Lieut. C. M. Boas, gave the order to abandon…
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A lifeboat that is claimed to be unsinkable, uncapsizeable and self-emptying, has been invented by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. A prototype has successfully passed stringent Board of Trade tests, and the American authorities have also subjected it to extensive…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--With only one of her crew of four still alive, the 45ft, ketch Nova was wrecked on the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, on October 7. Nearly five months after she disappeared from the New…
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NOUMEA (New Caledonia), Thurs.--Doctors have instructed that James Cush the sole survivor of the crew of four in the…
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Returning from fishing off Evans Head, the 45ft. launch Voyager, owned and skippered by Mr. Evans Paddon, narrowly…
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The wreckage of 2NR's 598 feet radio mast at Lawrence, which was blown down daring the storm last Wednesday…
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LONDON, Sun.--Three bodies and two ship's lifeboats, washed ashore near St. David's Head, indicate the ship, Empire Albany…
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LONDON, Mon.--Since the discovery of two lifeboats and three bodies, believed to be from the vessel Empire Albany, which is…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Reports reaching Sydney from Noumea reveal that the ill-fated ketch, Nova, which was wrecked on the Isle of…
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BRISBANE, Mon.--James Cush, the only survivor of the ketch, Nova, arrived in Brisbane to-day by flying boat from Noumea…
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JERUSALEM, Wed.--Defying dangerous seas, British and Greek naval ratings yesterday ferried 240 shipwrecked Jews from…
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NEW YORK, Friday.--Two boys, aged 13 and 10 years, have been arrested and charged with arson, following the shattering of the Washington Heights (Manhattan) seven-story tenament in which it is thus far known 17 people have been killed, another 26…
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