Count Custard Wrecks, Historic Moment
One of the most exasperating experiences of cricket lovers in the Clarence area for years occurred…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
30 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
Launch Wrecked, Ketch Disabled
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A pleasure launch was wrecked and a ketch disabled in heavy seas near Sydney to-day. A tug, a police launch and four surf boats took part in the rescue of the 45ft. ketch with 16 men aboard as it…
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Mr. Keith Bathos fishing launch was beach at Boambee when it developed engine trouble returning from the…
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CATANIA (Sicily), Mon. (AAP).—Search parties to-day reached the wreckage of a British airliner…
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BOSTON, Fri. (A.A.P.)— The storm-torn stern of the American tanker Fort Mercer was towed into sheltered…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed.—An aircraft engineer who paddled, a surf ski from Sydney was almost wrecked…
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SINGAPORE, Sunday.-- Ground troops guided by radio from circling aircraft were this afternoon only a…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- Australian coastal shipping was being wrecked by the effects of the overtime…
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LISMORE, Tuesday.--The ketch Ostana, which put to sea from Byron Bay late on Friday night in the teeth of a rising gale,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rugby League Diggers Wreck Nambucca Free Scoring in First and Reserve Grades
Diggers rattled up a cricket score against Nambucca at Brelsford Park on Sunday. In the three grades they scored 94 points to Nambucca's 11. Winning margins were Firsts 44-2. Reserves 42-2, Thirds 8-5…
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The wreck of Hie battleship "Warspite," floating on a cushion of compressed air from two jet engines— each burning 500 gal[?]ons of fuel an hour— was moved 40 feet nearer the shore recently at Marazion, near St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall,…
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NEW YORK. Friday.--A new rubber lifeboat that inflates in 30 seconds and provides protection from heat…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--The former Australian steamer, Ngakuta, left Sydney for Noumea to-day towed by…
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The wreck of the battleship Warspite, floating on a cushion of compressed air from two jet engines was moved 40 feet nearer the shore recently at Marazion, near St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, where she has lain for the…
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SEOUL. Mon. -- United Nations fighter-bombers today struck in two big waves at a kev Communist…
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LISMORE, Fri. -- A fisherman who swam through a raging surf to a lonely beach near Byron Bay,…
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BRISBANE, Sunday --A launch left Gladstone this morning to assist the disabled ketch Jason, which has been drifting for four days off the Queensland coast…
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BRISBANE, Monday—The disabled ketch Jason was towed to Gladstone by rescue launch last night. With Dr. C. Hammond, of Maclean, N.S.W.,…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--R.A.A.F. aircraft, in the second day of their search, failed to find any trace of the steamer, Awahou, to-day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday--Shipping authorities now fear the 437-ton motorship Awahou has foundered in the Tasman Sea, with all 16 hands, and the R.A.A.F. has abandoned its…
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