Friday "Specials" Cause Panic Crowd Wrecks Shop Doors
SYDNEY: Two women and several boys were knocked through the glass doors of Selfridges' store…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
25 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 2
Survivors Are Detained Sequel to Greek Shipwreck
ATHENS, Tuesday: The detention and isolation of the surviving officers and men of the Greek liner which sank in Greek…
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LONDON, Friday: Sixteen-members of the crew and two passengers are reported to have been…
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ALTOONA (Pennsylvania) Tuesday: Casualties in the wreck of the crack passenger train "red arrow" new…
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PARIS: Along the coast of France there are still many ports blocked by the wreckage of war…
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Wing Commander B. R. O. B. Hoare, pilot of the R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito bomber which crashed on desolate Sydney Island in the…
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Trifles! Trifles! Can it be possible that men have lost their [?] trifles! Who has not heard of the prince who lost his life been trifled ten minutes; of the railwayman who lost his life endeavo[?] catch his cap, which had blown off; the millionaire who lost [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Texas City Almost Wrecked by Explosion Death Roll Estimated at "Around 1200": Injured 3500
NEW YORK, Wednesday: An unofficial report places the deathroll in a series of explosions, which almost wrecked Texas City, as "around 1200." The disaster, which followed an explosion in a ship carrying fertilizers, is ranked as America's greatest. The city, which has a normal population of about 48,000, is being evacuated because of spreading fumes…
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A search party yesterday found ten charred bodies near the wreckage of the Skymaster, "Lili Marlene,"…
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OTTAWA, Wednesday: The Canadian Steamship Lines announced that the Great Lakes steamship,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A "Wrecker" Labour Exchanges in New Zealand
WELLINGTON (N.Z): The Minister for Public Works, Mr. Robert Semple, yesterday described the president of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Royal Navy Clearing 500 WRECKS Task Will Take 18 Vessels Three Years to Clear Seas
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea approaches to Britain. Encircling Britain to-day there are still the wrecks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Explosion Ship in Brest Wrecks Port Warship Tried to Sink Her £300,000 Damage Done in Harbour and City
LONDON, Tuesday: French naval guns were turned on the Norwegian ship, Ocean Liberty, 776 tons, in Brest Harbour yesterday after a violent explosion on board wrecked part of the city…
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MELBOURNE: Ten men were burned to death in a fire which followed an explosion on the 10,000-ton freighter Mahia. Two bodies have been recovered from the ship, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →400 Persons are Killed and 500 Injured Tragic Disaster at Cadiz 100 Torpedoes Blow up and Wreck City
LONDON, Wed.: Although the Spanish authorities have clamped down a blanket censorship over the explosion area, the American Associated Press says it is now feared that 400 persons have…
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A housing official said the shortage of homes had wrecked many marriages and would run many more…
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NEWCASTLE: Two men are believed to have been drowned, but a woman reached the shore safely. when a motor launch…
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POWELL RIVER, British Columbia, Sunday; The motorship Gulf Stream struck a reef in Queen…
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NEWCASTLE: The British steamer, Stanley Park 7000 tons. went a ground on a mud bank in Newcastle Harbour early this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clyclone Lea Ves Trail of Damage in District Wool Shed On Property Completely Wrecked
A terrific cyclone completely wrecked the woolshed on Mr. Ray White's property, "Signal Hill," last night, lifting the roof completely off and carrying it 500 yards away. The cyclone was one of the worst experienced in the surrounding districts of Goulburn and left a trail of damage in several towns. Mr. White's property is…
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