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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952

30 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Sea Story Completed Bodies and Wreckage Found (Continued from Friday's Issue)

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 3

The "Herald" report continues: "The sea, as far apart as Coffs Harbour to Yamba, is strewn with wreckage — drums and…

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Ship's Wreckage Near Volcano

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 1

TOKIO, Sun.--The Japanese Coast Guard said last night that it had definitely decided that a scientific…

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Shipwrecked On Island

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 October 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Twenty-seven people, including eight women and a small child, were…

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Wrecked Plane At South

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 November 1952 · page 2

Wreckage of the Tiger Moth aircraft which nosed-dived into a paddock near the South Grafton aerodrome late on Monday afternoon. The condition of the pilot, Rex Graham Wigley, 26, of Powell street, Grafton, was reported last night to be unchanged. He was admitted to Grafton Base…

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Ketch Reaches Lord Howe Is

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.—Balgowlah grocer–yachtsman Norman Rome, and his fiancee, Sylvia Roach, reached Lord…

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Grampus Ashore At lluka

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 December 1952 · page 3

A large marine animal believed to be of the genus Grampus and commonly known as a Risso's Dolphin…

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Land Wrecks Present A Strong Challenge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 6

Civilisation is now running a race with famine; the outcome is still in doubt. In the past five years the population of the world increased about three per cent., whereas the…

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All Survivors Taken From Wrecked Ship

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 4

BEIRUT, (Lebanon), Thurs.--All remaining passengers and crew, of the wrecked French liner…

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Deaths In Wreck

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 4

PARIS, Fri.--Four passengers and 11 of the crew of the liner Champollion died when the liner was…

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69th Anniversary Of Clarence Heads Wreck

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 December 1952 · page 2

New England was one of the fleet of the Clarence and Richmond Steamship Co. Ltd., and was on her usual…

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