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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

11 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

French Plane Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 3

PARIS. Monday: The mail plane which was wrecked in Equatorial Africa was. burned,. Six passengers and three of the…

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95 DROWNED When Steamer Sinks

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Ninety-five passengers were drowned yesterday when a river steamer from Hamburg,…

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Vandalism Vegetables and Corn Wrecked Old Man Victimised

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 2

Mr. Alf. Lawrence, Warro[?] Road, who has a fine garden and corn patch opposite Mr. Jack Maloney's (formerly Mr…

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Passengers Ashore Ship Ashore

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: Nine women and 45 men, after huddling in the teeth of a gale while their ship, the Byron Darnton,…

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Homes Wrecked by Tidal Wave

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 August 1946 · page 5

CUIDAD TRUJILLO (Dominican Republic), Wednesday: Eye witness reports from Matanzad state that the tidal wave Which…

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1000 Miles in Leaky Ketch

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 September 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY: Patched and leaking, a 31-year-old ketch, from which water had to be bailed with desperate effort for two days when…

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The Unsinkable Lifeboat

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 1

A life boat that is claimed to be unsinkable, uncapsizeable and self-employing, has been invented by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. A prototype has successfully passed stringent Board of Trade and the American authorities have also subjected it to…

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Steamer Ashore at Wollongong

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: The 9000-ton steamer River Murchison, one of the largest vessels built in Australia, ran ashore at Port Kembla…

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Explosion Toll Big Building Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday:—Eight people are known to he dead, 29 others are in hospital and it is feared that 35…

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Manly Ferry on Rocks Crowded Steamer Loses Way in Fog

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: With 1500 passengers on board, the Manly ferry steamer Dee Why ran on a rock in a heavy fog at…

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American Freighter Wrecked

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 26 December 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday The American freighter, North Eastern Victory, 700 tons, which [?] aground, on Goodwin Sands…

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