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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

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South Australian Wreck Sunk

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 October 1950 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday.-- Three waves of R.A.A.F. aircraft swept over the hulk of the former pleasure steamer Quorna…

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Ketch Shelters From Southerly

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1950 · page 1

The auxiliary ketch Malola, skippered by Captain Johnson, en route from Melbourne to the Solomon Islands, took shelter…

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Wreckage Found

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 November 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--A piece of blue fabric and a strip of duralium, believed to be from the missing Auster aircraft in…

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Engine Saved From Foundered Boat

Daily Examiner · Monday 27 November 1950 · page 2

Pounded by heavy surf on the bar at the entrance to the Wool River, the 20ft. fishihg boat Seamo was smashed to pieces…

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Steamer Leaves Short Of Cargo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 December 1950 · page 2

The N.C.S.N. Co.'s steamer, Ulmarra, sailed from Grafton yesterday leaving behind a quantity of sawn timber intended for shipment…

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Plane Wreck Sighted

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 December 1950 · page 3

MANILA, Fri. (AAP-Reuter). --The charred wreckage of an American C54 Transport plane that crashed with 37…

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Plane Wreckage On Mountain

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 December 1950 · page 3

MANILA, Fri. (AAP-Reuter). -- U.S. naval transport plane, missing since Tuesday, with 37 persons on board, has been…

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Launch Wrecked

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 December 1950 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Thurs. (AAP-Peuter).--Fourteen persons, including 11 holidaymakers, were drowned when a passenger…

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Lives Lost When Launch Wrecked

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 December 1950 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Fri. (AAP-Reuter).--Twenty people, it is now believed, were drowned when the 45 ft. passenger launch…

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