Girls' Trip on Ketch
Wellington (N.Z.): Twentytwo days out from Hobart, the 32ft. ketch To Rapunga reached Wellington on…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
39 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 2
51 Saved From This Wreckage
MIRACLES still happen, and 43 passengers and eight crewmen who were…
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New York, Thursday: All Police-Sgt. Alexander R. Polowishz did was press a button for routine testing of the fire alarm system in the village of Hastings—on—…
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Sydney: A man found a sealed bottle on Sawtell Beach, on the North Coast, with a note that said three…
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Sydney: A man found a sealed bottle on Sawtell Beach, on the North Coast, with a note that said three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Couple Saved From Ketch on Coral Reef
Brisbane: Police and fishermen yesterday saved a honeymoon couple from a wrecked ketch on a coral reef, 68 miles east of Mackay…
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Sydney: With the Royal tour fever mounting hourly, Sydney today is a gay and resplendent city. Arches which have cost thousands of pounds, flags, bunting, heraldic…
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London, February 10.—A television camera on board the warship Sea Salvor revealed unidentified…
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Melbourne: Loss of Wally May wrecked Essendon's hopes of fielding unbeatable rucks last season, according…
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Geelong: A sailor who jumped on the back bumper bar of a car at Eastern Beach and refused to get off was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wrecked By Quake
WRECKED BALCONY of a shop in Franklin Street, Adelaide. The damage was caused by an earthquake in the early hours of yesterday morning…
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Vandals caused damaged to Royal tour decoration in Broken Hill last night. At Railway Town flags were ripped from the window of Roberts' Service Store in Gypsum…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage of comet crash off Elba
THIS HEAP of twisted, tangled metal lying on the deck of the battleship HMS Vanguard…
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London, Tuesday: The wreckage of a Royal Air Force plane has been found on a mountain in Saudi…
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Maitland: An explosion in a kerosene refrigerator wrecked a kitchen in Newcastle Street. East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Sunk in S. A. Collision
Adelaide: A ketch laden with barley sank almost immediately after it had come into collision with a tug 10 miles off the Outer Harbor just after midnight…
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Adelaide: A ketch laden with barley sank almost immediately after it had come into collision with a tug 10 miles off the Outer Harbor just after midnight…
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Buenos Aires, Wed.: A rescue patrol reported that it had reached the wreckage of an Argentine Airways…
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The Orient Line and P. & O. S.N. Company have introduced first-class boomerang excursions to Great…
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Sydney.: The old steamer Ardross is drifting helplessly off the northern N.S.W. coast 150 miles from Sydney, with nobody onboard…
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