Effort To Retain Steamer Service
MACLEAN, Fri.--A well attended meeting of Maclean Chamber of Commerce was held last night to…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
23 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 2
Jet Comet Wreck To Be Salvaged
LONDON, Mon.--The wreck of the Comet jetliner which crashed off. Elba last week will be salvaged…
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Sydney police believe a shipwreck note, found in a sealed ship's medicine bottle at the mouth of Bonville Creek this…
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A message in a bottle, washed up on Sawtell beach, tells the story of a shipwreck some 250 miles off the coast of West Australia…
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MACKAY, Wednesday.-- Police and fishermen rescued a honeymoon couple from a wrecked ketch, aground On a coral reef 68 miles east of Mackay…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--The body of Charles William Wren, (24), whose car crashed over a cliff at Tamarama…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Six Maroubra lifesavers swam through a raging surf to rescue three men from a wrecked launch at Little Bay, near La Perouse, to-day. The launch, the Tambua, was smashed to pieces only…
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LISMORE, Tues. -- After an explosion wrecked a banana ripening room at Lismore to-day, a man was…
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The flood-wrecked office of the North Coast Steam Navigation Co, Lismore, was moved by water from its site…
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ROME, Fri.--An aircraft searching for the missing South African Comet jet liner to-day…
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HANOI. Sun. -- There was still no news of the fate of Brigadier-General Christian de Castries,…
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Abolition of the means test, as proposed by the Labor Party, would destroy the pensioner medical service section of the existing national health scheme, said…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday--The tug Woona towing the disabled British steamer St. Edmund is expected to reach…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--The old steamer Ardross (2577 tons), which had drifted off the cost since last Wednesday,…
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THE story of an attack by a woman on the crew of a timber vessel moored at South Grafton was told…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The body of an attractive 40-year-old woman was washed ashore at Cronulla beach…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--The wreckage of an R.A.A.F. Wirraway, missing since July 21, 1953, was found by…
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This photograph shows the remains of a block of flats wrecked in the earthquake which devastated an area around Orel Ansville, Algeria. Many bodies were beneath the wreckage of the flats…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The pilot steamer Captain Cook late to-night left Sydney with armed police on board to check a report that a missing trawler had been sighted for the second time off Broken Bay…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Twenty-five men yesterday dragged the wreckage of an Auster aircraft 200 feet up a a near precipitous, rock-strewn mountainside in the…
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