Royal Navy Clearing 500 Wrecks Task Will Take Three Years
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
63 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Steamer in Distress
SYDNEY, Friday—When steering gear, trouble developed, a 200-to steamer was in distress off the South coast, near Jervis Bay, last…
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All members of the crew of the wrecked steamer, Gippsland, are believed to be safe. Unconfirmed radio reports state that two lifeboats have…
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All members of the crew of the wrecked steamer, Gippsland, are believed to be safe. Unconfirmed radio reports…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—All members of the crew of the wrecked steamer Gippsland are believed to be safe…
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LONDON, July 26. — In a despatch from Ville Franche (France), American Associated Press says that three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day's World News Ship Explosion Wrecks City. Over 20 Killed in Brest. Heavy Damage Reported. Paris
More than 20 persons are reported to have been killed at Brest when the Norwegian ship, Ocean Liberty, loaded with nitrate ammonia, exploded in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →23 KILLED, 1100 Injured, Terrific Explosion French Atlantic Port Of Brest Partly Wrecked
LONDON, July 23.—Twenty-three persons are reported killed and 1100 injured, including 100 seriously hurt, in a violent explosion which partly wrecked the French Atlantic port of Brest yesterday after the Norwegian ship, Ocean…
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LONDON, Aug 10.—Lloyd’s agents at Marseilles say that a fire broke out on the Panamanian steamer Gloria, which had…
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GLOUCESTER, Wed—An 80-year-old woman who was trapped for 14 hours in an Overturned car at Gangat, near Gloucester,…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—With fires blazing is the hold, the freighter Pioneer early to-day steamed at full pressure for port Phillip and…
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LONDON, August 20.— Although the Spanish authorities have clamped down a blanket censorship over the explosion area, it is now feared that 1000 persons have lost their lives in the Cadiz disaster on Monday, when more than 100 torpedoes blew up…
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OSLO, August 29.— Rescue workers yesterday found 32 bodies in and around the wreckage of the…
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 10.— Between 20 and 30 per. were lolled when the five-decked oil burning inland cursion steamer, bland Queen—claimed to be the largest vessel of its kind In the U.S.—burned and sank at the…
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Between 20 and 30 persons were killed when the five-decked oil burning inland excursion steamer, Island Queen—claimed…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — “Australia is being dragged into a pit because decent, respectable citizens will not regularly attend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communists Described As Wreckers. President Supports Secretary Op State's Views. Washington
Full support for a statement by the Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Robert Lovett, that the revival of the Comintern by nine European Communist…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The British steamer, Stanley Park, 7000 tons, went aground on a mud bank in Newcastle harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Louise Linden Looks at Life a Mercury Saturday Feature Husband Advised To Threaten Home -Wrecker With Horse -Whipping
“A man who can coolly break op another man’s home and deprive his children of their mother is usually a coward and easily scared,” Louise Linden says after advising “Worried” to threaten the home-wrecker with a horse-whipping,…
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HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Nov. 17.—Thirty-six ship-wrecked members of the crew of the British freighter, Langlecrag, are…
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