Steamer in Tow
Sydney, June 20: The tug Woona took the drifting steamer Andross in tow at 10 a.m. today…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
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Couple Want to See Their Wrecked Junk
Sydney, Tues.: In,1939, an American sea captain and his Japanese wife were wrecked off New Guinea in a Chinese junk which had twice carried them across the Pacific…
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Grafton, August 17.—A tug at high tide tonight pulled the 1,000-ton coastal steamer Bonalbo off the…
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THESE TWO BROTHERS, Maurice (left) and Rex Driscoll, left Fremantle this week on the first leg of a proposed round-the-world trip in their 33ft, ketch Walkabout. They plan to travel up the W.A. coast to Carnaroon, then head west and wake their next landfall at Mauritius,. Here they are putting the…
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New York, Wednesday: A neat-figured 23-year-old blonde almost wrecked the start of the Miss America pageant yesterday…
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London, Thursday: Salvage workers have recovered £A.25,000 worth of diamonds from a wrecked Dutch airliner. The airliner a K.L.M…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wind Wrecks U.S. Sehool
New York: Four children were injured when a tornado blew down a school building, at Wilson, North Carolina…
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To describe someone who's artistically gifted, but hard to get along with, as "temperamental" is ridiculous. prefer to call this type of person "bad…
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London, Tues.: British lifeboats in the first nine months of 1954 saved the lives of 366 people — 15…
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London, Oct 24: RAF and Gloster Aircraft Company experts have examined the salvaged wreckage…
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Teheran, Wednesday: Prince Ali Reza, brother and heir of the Shah of Persia, has been found dead in the wreckage of his plane 40 miles north of…
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Sydney, November 9. The pilot, steamer Captain Cook today made a vain high-speed dash through…
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Lima, Nov. 21: The wreckage of a Peruvian military transport plane, missing since Monday with 25…
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London, Tues.: Twenty-five men were drowned in the galeswept Atlantic today, when the 7,373-tons cargo ship Tresillian heeled over and sank off south-west Ireland. The ship carries a crew…
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Melbourne: A trail of wreckage was let through the Goulburn Valley, between Echuca and…
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New York, Sunday: Divers today located the main wreckage of the Italian DC-6 airliner. The bodies of 17 victims are believed to be trapped in it…
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New York, Dec. 20.—Divers yesterday located the main wreckage of the DC. 6 Italian airliner which…
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Sao Paulo (Brazil), Tuesday: A mob of several hundred persons wrecked the offices and a…
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Sydney: The possibility that two bushmen have seen the wreckage of a newspaper dleivery plane,…
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