Collier Wrecking Shore Lights Main Factor
Sydney, June 30.—The main factor in the stranding of the collier Munoran on Bellambi Reef at 7.25 p.m. on May 17. was lack of attention to navigation…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
54 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 3
Ship Wrecked By Reef
Hong Kong, (AAP-Reuter), July 1.—Thirty-eight crew members, including light Australians, were rescued when the steamer Inchmark struck Seilpad Reef…
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TWISTED AND CHARRED WRECKAGE of the MacRobtrtton Milite DC3 airliner after it crashed toon after taking off from Guildford Airport (WA) early on Saturday. Eighteen people were killed. The plane trothed in the…
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London, July 11.—Two R.A.K. Sunderland flying boats will today attempt to land alongside pieces of wreckage in mid-Atlantic which are believed to be the…
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LEIGH CREEK COAL unloaded on No. 11 wharf at Port Adelaide before being mixed with Newcastle coal in hte Yearby for experimenta in firing, its main boilers. If exper[?] Adelaide before being mixed with Newcastle coal in the…
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The Newcastle national president of the Seamen's Union (Mr. R. Frankling said today that no crew members from Newcastle would be…
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THE 50ft. AUXILIARY KETCH Miss Evelyn which has sailed from Port Adelaide with 47-year-old Port Adelaide company director, Alex Hay, and two M[?]ourne companions on an adventure trip which may take them to Fiji…
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Melbourne.—Discoveries by the Australian Antarctic Expedition on Macquarie Island throw light oh a century-old tragedy…
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London, August 21.—The British steamer Avismoat, 7074 tons, was today making for Fremantle after several minor explosions, which…
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Melbourne. August 22.—A radio distress message from the Ketch Kurrewa III was picked up in Melbourne today. The message said that the part owner of the…
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New York, August 29.—Thirteen persons were injured in a three-hour riot at a picnic grove at Peekskill, near New York, when marching veterans from three ex-Service organisations prevented the…
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WRECKAGE FROM THIS HOUSE in central Kempsey blocked the roadway after the floodwaters receded in the reeent disastrous flood. Twenty houses in this area completely disappeared and 200 shops and hemes were badly damaged. Flood…
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Hong Kong, September 1 (AAP-Reuter) —Typoon winds of mounting Velocity early this morning forced rescue craft to withdraw from the blazing British…
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Washington.—A U.S. Army captain today alleged that the navy's attacking power was being wrecked by senior army and air force…
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ADELAIDE BUSINESS MAN Mr. Alexander Hay, of Port Adelaide, and Miss Thelma Bennett, of Prospect, were marooned for three and a half weeks on barren Curtis Island in Bass Strait, when the 50 ft. auxiliary ketch, Miss Evelyn,…
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Melbourne, September 19.—Police are making Statewide searches in Victoria and South Australia for Bernard Williams Harnsworth (44), engineer, who intended making a Pacific cruise with a man and woman who were shipwrecked…
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Brisbane.—A former American merchant sailor, will sail with his wife in a,45ft. ketch from Brisbane to San francisco because is sick of…
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Melbourne, September 22—Alexander Hay and Miss Thelma Bennett who were marooned on Curtis Island for three and a half weeks when the ketch…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Search for Missing Anson Plane-Wreckage Believed Found
Melbourne, September 27.—Air Force officers left Sale tonight to investigate a report that what appeared to be part of an aircraft had been found about 80 miles from Sale. An Avro Anson plane, with a crew of five, has been missing since…
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Melbourne, September 28.—More wreckage from the missing R.A.A.F. Avro Anson was sighted on the 90 Mile beach near the entrance to Lake…
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