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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

72 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 4

Wreckage of Airliner Found

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 16 November 1946 · page 1

BURBANK (California), Nov. 16.—A Western Airlines pilot reports having found the wreckage of the missing D.G.3 airliner,…

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To-day’s Leader: Let Us Be Producer-Conscious Wreckage of Missing Cutter Found

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 November 1946 · page 1

After over three months of fruitless searching for the lost 18-foot cutter, Albinia, missing in the Gulf of Carpent[?] since…

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Wreckage Found

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 November 1946 · page 4

BURBANK (California) Nov. 17. —All of the eight passengers and [?]ew of three on board the Western Airlines’ plane, which crashed…

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They Save Eleven Lives Every Week Britain's Lifeboat Institution to Improve Its Rescue Service

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 November 1946 · page 3

A £1,000,000 programme has been begun by Britain's Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which seeks to provide 29 new and improved…

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Wreckage on Welsh Coast

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 November 1946 · page 6

LONDON, Now. 24.—Three bodies and two [?] from the 30-ton ship Empire Albany have been washed up at St. David’s Head,…

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Plane Wrecked In Deep Canyons

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON, December 7.—Reuter’s correspondent announced that the plane carrying Sir Richard Hugh Barlow and Captain O. E. Gates, chief pilot of the Shell Oil Co. at Ecuador, is reported missing among the deep canyons of…

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Ashore On A Coral Reef

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1946 · page 1

SINGAPORE Dec 10— Answering radio appeals for immediate help a [?] left Singapore yesterday to aid the…

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British Tanker Stands By Shipwrecked Jews

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM December 10—Unconfirmed reports reaching have from Jewish sources in Athens say that eight of the 800 illegal Jewish migrants standard on the island were killed when their boat struck a rock Several other Jews are reported to have been injured…

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Lifeboat Parachuted From Fortress

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1946 · page 1

QUEBEC, December 26,— Two Flying Fortresses took off from Massachusetts for the lower St. Laurence River to parachute a…

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Wrecked On The Goodwins

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Dec. 25.—The American freighter, Nortel-eastern Victory, 7000-tons, which went aground on the Goodwin Sands…

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Stood By Wrecked Ship On Christmas Eve

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 December 1946 · page 1

LONDON,' Dec. 27.— Waimer Iifeboatmen spent Christmas Eve afloat over the Goodwin Sands, but did not miss the good-cheer…

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Boy Asleep In Plane Wreckage

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1946 · page 1

SHANGHAI, Dec. 27. — A four-year old boy was found asleep and uninjured to the wreckage of one of the three airliners that…

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