Tests of New Rubber Lifeboat
NEW YORK: The United States Navy demonstrated new rubber lifeboat in flates in 30 seconds and…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
38 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
Steamer Was Long Time in Water
SYDNEY A Turkish steamier the Barakoy has arrived in Sydney after a trip of 222 days from Marseilles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Buildings Crash in Californian Quake 11 Bodies Unearthed from Wreckage
LOS ANGELES: At feast 11 persons were killed before dawn yesterday when an [?] crashed buildings m the town of Tehnehapi, in the mountains of California…
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LONDON: More then 200 smoke bombs phosphorous markers and incendiary bombs floated ashore at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rotarians Rebuild Wrecked Cottage In Fourteen Hours
Woy Woy Rotary Club members and residents, rebuilt a cottage in 14 hours at the weekend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fireball Wrecks Brickyard
A fireball struck a brick-works at Brookvale during! heavy rain early on Wednesday and wrecked four brick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →90 Drowned When Steamer Overturned
BELGRADE: Ninety persons were drowned yesterday when a River Danube steamer, enroute from Belgrade to Zenum,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ninety Drowned When Steamer Overurns BELGRADE, Wed
—Ninety people were drowned yesterday, when a storm overturned a River Danube steamer travelling from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →63, Bodies In Ferry Steamer
BELGRADE: Bodies of 69 people ware found below deck when the Belgrade [?] ferry steamer, which sank in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bomb Wrecks Home at Armidale Sleeping Couple Had Narrow Escapes
ARMIDALE: A sleeping couple narrowly escaped death early to-day when a bomb partly wrecked their home. Police are investigating the theory that the bomb…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifeboat Controlled by Radio
NEW YOIRK: The U.S. Air Force will unvell a new radio controlled lifeboat at Mobile (Alabas), with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecked Lighthouse
AMHERSTBURG (Ontario): Two river steamers “went amok” in a heavy fog yesterday, one knocking down a…
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BRISBANE: The Ketch Thuruns, which had been three days overdue on the start of Its round-the-world…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home Wrecked by Blaze
An exploding pressure stove on Tuesday evening started a fire which destroyed a three-roomed weatherboard house in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ketch Ends Long Voyage
NEW YORK: A 10,000-mllea ocean voyage in a 48-foot ketch from Wellington to Boston ended on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wind Wrecks Windmill
Thursday's heavy winds caused havoc in several parts of the district. A windmill on Mr. R. A. Jonas' Berrywood property on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecked Plane Did Not Have Enough Speed To Keep Aloft
MOSES LAKE (Washington): United States Sir Force accident experts yesterday began a thorough Instigation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Passengers and Crew of Wrecked Liner Saved
BEIRUT (Lebanon): All remaining passengers and crew of the wrecked French liner Champollion were…
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