Wreckage Sighted
SINGAPORE, Thurs— A B.O.A.C. flying boat yesterday reported seeing wreckage with two persons clinging to a raft…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
48 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 3
Mission Schooner Leaves
NEWCASTLE, Sun.--With its native crew of 10, and seven white missionaries on board, the 75-ton mission schooner. Evangel…
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After receiving another terrific battering in a gale, the ketch, Utiekah II., has put into Port Stephens harbour…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--The auxiliary, ketch, Kuia, reached Sydney, to-day after a 22-day voyage from Auckland…
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LONDON, Sun.—The Turkish steamer. Silivri, hit a mine and sank opposite Budrum in Southwestern Turkey Nineteen of the…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--When steering gear trouble developed aboard the 200-ton steamer Kooraka, off the South Coast, near Jervis Bay last…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Twenty-three persons are reported killed and 1100 injured, including 100 seriously hurt, in a violent explosion which partly wrecked the…
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The important part that steamers played in the progress of the colony of New South Wales forms an interesting history in itself…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--A further raid on the steamer River Clarence to-day resulted in the discovery of another 400 strings of…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--The club rooms of the Paddington-Woollahra R.S.L, sub-branch were wrecked last night when more than 50 men and women brawled with bottles, chairs, boots and fists. The brawl followed an argument between several men…
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LISMORE, Tues.--After sheltering at Byron Bay because of rough seas on the Richmond River bar at Ballina since…
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Sir,--A Sydney message in the "Daily Examiner" of August 21, 1947--re the wreck of the Dunber says: "The migrants on the…
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NO wreck on the Australian coast excited the same degree of interest as that of the "Dunbar," a crack ship of her day which was lost with all hands (121) except one, at the foot of the cliffs half a mile south cf the Gap near Sydney Heads, on the…
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PITTSBURG, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—Between 20 and 30 persons were killed when a five-decked oil burning inland excursion steamer, Island Queen—claimed to be the largest vessel of its kind in the United States—burned and sank at the quayside in…
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FLUSHING (New York), Wed. (A.A.P.).—A warning to the Great Powers that their disunity and suspicion of each…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—The monoplane which was wrecked when it crashed in desolate country 12 miles from Seal Rocks, just north…
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HONG KONG, Thursday (A.A.P.).—It is feared nearly 2000 Chinese fishermen were drowned on Friday, when a…
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The trim, clean-cut 56ft ketch Kurrewa III, entered port at Coffs Harbour yesterday and is the centre of much attraction at the…
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HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Mon. (A.A.P.).—Thirty shipwrecked members of the crew of the British freighter…
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TOKIO, Mon. (A.A.P.-Reuter. A series of tremendous explosions in ammunition dumps near the former Japanese naval…
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