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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
39 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2
KEMPSEY, Sunday.--Kempsey to-day is attempting to salvage something from one of the worst floods in history. It was greater than in 1893, and to-day showed nothing but devastation. At least 22 homes have completely disappeared,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE wreck of the mission ship, John Williams V. on a reef about 150 yards off the Samoan coast, benefited a nearby village, said Rev. R. W. Taylor. Utilising a diesel engine and dynamo from the wreck, the village now had electric light…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HONG KONG, Thurs. (AAP-Reuter).--Typhoon winds of mounting velocity early to-day forced rescue craft to withdraw…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFF'S HARBOUR, Mon.--The naval frigate, H.M.A.S Shoalhaven, paid a brief visit to Coff's Harbour yesterday, when she put…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sun.--A mail and a woman were rescued yesterday from Curtis Island after being shipwrecked in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne, Tues.--The mystery surrounding Alexander Hay and Miss Thelma Bennett could not be cleared up until…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wed.-- Believed to be from the ketch Miss Evelyn, which was wrecked in Bass Strait a month ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PRESS photographed now in Grafton has cause to be thankful for at least fine assignment handed him by his editor. For it resulted in his joining the crew of the round-the-world gaff ketch, Kathleen, for two-thirds her famous voyage from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Mr. Alexander Hay and Miss Thelma Bennett, who were marooned on Curtiss Island for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- More wreckage from the missing R.A.A.F Avro Anson was sighted on the Ninety Mile Beach near the entrance to Lake Tyers early to-day. Air Force officers at Lakes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE wrecked Buccarumbi bridge, which was swept from its foundations in the 1946 flood on the Nymboida, was sold by tender recently by the Main Roads Department for under £50 as scrap iron and steel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →COFF'S HARBOUR, Wed.--The steamer James Cook made an unexpected visit to Coff's Harbour this morning to put ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tragedy of the many losses of stout ships within a stone's throw of the shore is well illustrated by the Tomki…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HONG KONG, Mon. (A.A.P. Reuter).-- A Chinese Nationalist warship at the mouth of the Yangste River was intercepted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →OSLO, Tues. (AAP).--Search parties found the wreck of the missing Dutch Dakota, carrying 29 Jewish children and six adults,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MURWILLUMBAH. -- The last of the wreck of the Tyalgum has slipped under the waves…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOGOTA Colombia), Monday. (AAP).--Wreckage of the missing Colombian DC3 airliner was sighted yesterday in the rugged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Mon.--A man disappeared from the steamer Athenic last night while it was steaming from Sydney to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →COFF'S HARBOUR, Fri.--The steamer Mathew Flinders completed loading operations at Coff's Harbour to-day and will sail at…
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