Fire Sweeps Old Schooner
YARMOUTH (Nova Scotia), Thurs.—The historic 67-years-old schooner, City of New York was…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
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Storm Wrecks Horse Stalls
Considerable damage was done to 10 horse stalls at the Grafton racecourse during a recent storm…
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Queen Elizabeth with the Mayor of Hustanton viewing the wreckage left by the floods and gales in the town, formerly a popular resort on the s Norfolk coast…
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BRISBANE, Sun.--An unidentified wrecked plane which may have lain unseen since World War II., has…
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LONDON, Mon.-- A bomb yesterday wrecked the main display window of a stationary shop in…
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PERTH, Friday. --Japanese skin divers have been found operating on the wreck of the German light cruiser Emden, which is lying on a reef at north Keeling Island, in…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Interference a few seconds after the start of yesterday's Doncaster Handicap at Randwick…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday. -- Ten houses were wrecked by a mine subsidence in Wallsend St., Pelaw Main, near Kurri Kurri, to-day…
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DILLON (South Carolina) Tuesday.--Rescue workers to-day dug through twisted wreckage of a Miami to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seamen's Attempt to "Wreck Joint" Costs Them £74
"we don't get the glasses we'll wreck the joint,"said two seamen from the mv Kawatiri when refused glasses to take…
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NEW DELHI, Sun.--A British Comet jet airliner crashed and burned 22 miles north of Calcutta yesterday, killing at least 18 of the 43 persons aboard. The bodies of 18 persons were found near the wreckage of the…
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A 56-years-old petitioner in a divorce action before Mr. Justice Herron, in Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, at Grafton yesterday, said his…
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Unloading of the North Coast S.N. Co. steamer Ulmarra at South Grafton wharf was held up…
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When a circus van containing five lions was being towed by an elephant across the railway fine at die Coffs Harbour Jetty goods yards last night, the van was wrecked in a collision with a train and the elephant and lions escaped…
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Cart[?]in Kurt Car[?]sen, famous skipper of the Flying Enterprise, performed the launching ceremony of the new Dutch lifeboat which has been named after him a Noordwijk, near The Hague. Photo shows Captain Kurt…
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BRUSSELS.--An unemployed w o r k m a n, J. Traverniers, claims he has invented an ''unsinkable"…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--The 30ft. "Romance" ketch, Peer Gynt, has gone aground again. The ketch, with engaged Sydney couple Sylvia Roach and Norman Rome aboard, is reported to…
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NEWCASTLE, Fri.--Two brothers were found dead in the wreckage of a car beside the Pacific highway, seven…
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A 36ft. ketch which is visiting the Clarence River district is named Owen Davern in memory of its…
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NEW YORK, Thurs.--A Soviet accusation that the Western nations were attempting to present the Chinese Communists, and North Koreans with an "ultimatum"…
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