Visit to Wrecked Dutch Plane
Darwin, May 22.—Three Australians and three Dutch Air Force men returned to Darwin today after a trip in a truck to the scene or the crash of a Dutch…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
79 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 4
Wrecked Plane Sighted Four Philippine Officials Aboard
Manila, May 25.—The burned wreckage of President Rora's personal plane which had been missing a week with four high Philippine officials aboard, was…
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Sydney, June 3.—The pilot and copilot of a Butler Transport DC3 escaped with cuts and bruises when the airlines, they were flying, crashed near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twelve Dead Steamer Sinks After Striking Rocks
Ottawa, June 4—The Canadian Steamship Lines have announced that the Great Lakes steamer "Emperor"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Royal Navy Clearing 500 Wrecks Task Will Take 18 Vessels Three Years
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews. are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea approaches to…
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ADELAIDE.— The body of a 22-year-old man was found beside his wrecked bicycle on Port Road, Southwark, about 2.20 a.m…
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New York, July 10.—The auxiliary schooner Morning Star VI., a missionary ship, will sail from Boston on July 27 for Truk. where she will be based…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Body Washed Ashore
Sydney, July 13.—The unidentified body of a tall elderly man was found on the rocks near Manly today. It had been washed ashore in the harbour. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boat-Wrecked Man Wins Night-Long Battle
Adelaide, July 15.—Three men fought a night-long battle for their lives as heavy seas crashed over the wreck of their 80-ton shark boat, wedged on a…
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SYDNEY — Customs officers who senrched the steamer Marella found nearly 4,000 cakes of high-grade perfumed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Tried To Wreck Telephone Booth Seaman Remanded On Bodily Harm Charge
Sydney, August 4—Wilfred Frederick Bolt (22), merchant seaman, was remanded until August 25, at the Central Court today on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jewish Bomb Wrecks Building in Jerusalem Three British Constables Killed
Jerusalem, August 6.— Three British constables were kilted when Jewish terrorists set off a time bomb in the Palestine Government's Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blast Wrecks Beauty Shop
VOLUNTEER RESCUE WORKERS (centre foreground) handing up the body of a victim from the basement of a Virginian (U.S.A.) beauty shop which was destroyed by an explosion early this month. Twelve people were killed and 60 others seriously injured…
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Sydney, August 14.—A further raid on the steamer, "River Clarence," today resulted in the discovery of another 400 strings of pearls, also fishing lines and…
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Melbourne, August 14.—The H.M.A.S. Condamine, R.A.N. Frigate, is steaming at full speed to aid the 4,000 ton "Cyrena" which has run aground on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Club-room Wrecked in Brawl Bottles, Chairs, Boots And Fists Used
Sydney, August 17—The club rooms of the Paddington Wallahra RSL sub-branch were wrecked last night when more than 50 men and women brawled with bottles, chairs, boots and fists. The brawl followed an argument between several men…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Army Plane Wrecked Ten Dead Include MacArthur's Advisers
Honolulu, August 18—A USA Army plane carrying Mr. George Atcheson, political adviser to General MacArthur, landed on the sea seventy miles from Hawaii on Saturday night. Acheson is among the three missing. Planes and Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death-desolation in Cadiz Moving Stories Of Explosion—Wracked And Wrecked City
London, August 20—The British United Press Madrid correspondent says rescue squads worked all night in the glare of floodlights in Cadiz to reach scores of people still believed trapped. There is still no indication of what caused the first…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Claims Found Wreckage Of Southern Cloud Disappeared With Eight Aboard In 1931
Melbourne, August 26. — A bushman's discovery in rugged country in all East of Victoria may solve the mystery of the ill-fated Southern Cloud which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Factory Wrecked In Explosion
MELBOURNE—Flames from burning lacquer shot 30 feet into the air and portion of an iron roof was blown into the air and…
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