Fears Held For Safety Of Ketch
Melbourne, April 12. — Mountainous seas piled up in Bass Strait by gales accentuate the concern felt for the safety of the Auxiliary ketch…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
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Storm Wrecks Glenelg Jetty
HUGE WAVES pounding the seafront washed away sections of Glenelg jetty (S.A.), completely isolating the end, which is about 400 yards from the shore, and the Aquarium. A man who was…
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(PICTURE FROM THE AIR of all that remains of Glenelg jetty after last Sunday's hurricane…
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Shanghai (A.A.P.-Reuter). April 15.1—Mystery surrounds the fate of over 500 passengers of the steamer Wan Lee, who landed in the Communist area of…
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MELBOURNE.—Fire extensively damaged cargo in a hold of the steamer Tember, 7500 tons, at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, this morning. Firemen fought the blaze for more than four hours before they…
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Port Victoria (S.A.).—The ketch Hawk was raised at the first attempt yesterday, after having rested on the bottom of the sea…
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Brisbane.—A general purpose vessel would leave Cairns in a few days for northern operations, and if the weather were suitable it…
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Newcastle.—Police were sent to the seafront near Chinaman's Beach, Anna Bay; today to examine launch wreckage found there…
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Melbourne. — Several unions moved today to ba[?] work connected with the Greek steamer Chelatris, loading maize for France…
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Melbourne.—Many days overdue from Auckland (N.Z.). the 250-ton auxiliary schooner Huia sailed into Port Phillip after, a stormy crossing that bad taken 23 days, or nearly twice as long as an ordinary trip…
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New York, June 8.-The, 7,000ton Danish steamer Nevada struck * an jrefoerg 30 miles north-east of St. John's, ' Newfoundland.,.She…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Migration Problem for U.N.O. Palestine Steamer Berths At Tel Aviv
London, June 14. — The Palestinian steamer Kedmah, carrying 420 passengers from Marseilles anchored in Tel Aviv Harbor last night presenting U.N.O. truce supervisors with the first immigration problem since the Palestine truce began on…
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Melbourne. June 25.—A crashed aircraft recently found near Monto (Q.) by two stockmen has been identified as an American Army transport plane…
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IT has been established that the wreckage found last Tuesday near Monto, Queensland, is that of an American…
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Brisbane. — A battered hulk which is thought to be a Japanese midget submarine, is lying on a small beach about 12 miles south…
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Darwin.—A—,Native pearl diver yesterday fouled an unknown Wreck in Darwin Harbor. Harbor men are wondering whether…
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On Kurguelen Island, flecked by Antarctic foam midway between Africe and Australia, lie seven graves, six of them holding unidentified victims of World War II. And there in the island's…
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New York, August 30.—An air, liner with 36 passengers aboard crashed near Minona (Minnesota) last night. It is believed that the plane ran into a violent storm that ripped through south-eastern Minnesota, uprooting trees and causing…
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Melbourne, August 31.—The crashed Moth Minor plane in which Norman Sutton, a St. Kilda pilot, was killed at St. Arnaud at the week-end, was…
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Sydney—Wreckage of Douglas airliner which has been missing with 10 passengers and a crew of…
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