Schooner Party Call Off Trip To Australia
The crew of the schooner Volant has decided not to proceed with the voyage to Australia. After encountering a gale, Volant…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
72 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Home Wreckers Nation’s Greatest Enemy
BRISBANE, Monday.—Addressing more than 150 candidates for confirmation at Maryborough, Archbishop Dubig declared that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →90 Killed in Bomb Outrage Big Hotel Wrecked Jerusalem In Victims Include Several High British Officials
JERUSALEM, July 23.—British soldiers and police again occupied the Jewish Agency headquarters, detained Jewish leaders at their homes, and clamped down the strictest curfew ever imposed on Jewish quarters in Jerusalem…
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Men threw punches and women screamed on the saloon deck of the steamer Canberra when a fight broke out between rival factions of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cause of Fire Not Yet Known Wreck of Douglas Dakota at Mascot
A.N.A. technical officers are inquiring into the explosion and fire which severely damaged a £25,000 Douglas Dakota aircratt…
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NEW YORK, September 20.—It is believed that seven persons survived the crash of the Belgian Sabena Airways Spymaster in Newfoundland. The plane, which carried 44 persons, became lost in…
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A life boat that [?] claimed to be unsinkable, unacceptable and self-emptying [?] by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. A prototype has [?] passed stringent Board of Trade tests, and the American authorities have also subjected it to excessive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Experts Examine Wreck Convinced Jet Engine Did Not Blow Up
British experts who examined the wreckage of the De Haviland DHIOB "Swallow, which exploded in mid-air on Friday…
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Two Sydney fishermen narrowly escaped drowning yesterday after a terrifying night clinging to their upturned launch off Ettalong. They are Zino…
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CHUNGKING October 7—Reliable Chinese and American source reported that a Chinese airliner in west China about 60 miles to the south of Sichang on September 20 and American pilot and 31 passengers believed to be Chinese used the wrecked liner as a fortress and fought attacking Lolo tradesmen However they were…
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A [?] that is claimed to be unsinkable, uncapsizeable and self-emptying, has been invented by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. The craft is described as two boats fashioned bottom to bottom, and if either section is uppermost an air cushion…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A grim tragedy of the sea was revealed to-day, when the 45 feet auxiliary cruiser, Scotia, was found wrecked on an island in the New Celedonia Group, with three bodies aboard. There was one survivor…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A grim tragedy of the sea was revealed to-day when the 45 feet auxiliary cruiser, Scotia, was found wrecked on an island in the New Caledonia group with three bodies aboard. There was one survivor…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—Sydney police have asked the gendarmerie in Noumea to take a statement from James L. Cuth, survivor of the…
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TAMWORTH: The wreckage of a homber, which disappeared after taking off from Darwin to Alillingimbi two and a half years…
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New Caledonia police will make a full inquiry into the tragic journey of the ketch Nova from the N.S.W. coast…
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Two detectives were to-day ordered to make a thorough investigation of all the circumstances surrounding the disappearance and loss of the 45ft…
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WOLLONGONG,. Wednesday. — The 9000 tons ship [?] one of the [?] built in Australia, went [?] Port…
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CAPETOWN, Nov. 11.—A tug, which dashed out to the freighter. City of Lincoln, wrecked on the Qouin Point, brought the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leaders: Good News For Motorists Wanted: More Spending Power Ten Policemen Victims of in Jerusalem last Wrecks Part Of Historic St. George’s Cathedral
LONDON, November 14.—Ten British policemen were injured, including two seriously, when a police car was blown up outside St. George’s School in Jerusalem. A detonator box, with wire, was found 100 yards away…
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