Steamer Presumed S[?]
The Swedish str[?]jan (883 tons) with a crew of [?] 15 aboard, is presumed to have [?] sunk in the Gulf of Bothni[?]…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
33 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Fell From Steamer
NEWCASTLE: John Morgan, 57, of Cowper-street, Carrington, a wharf labourer, was injure d this morning when he…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.): The 2591-ton Kaimlro, which the Union Steam Ship Company recently sold to the R. B. W…
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Two men were drowned when the 45-ft. fishing boat, Leisure, capsized on the bar at Forster at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday. They were: the captain of the boat…
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The brother of a Singleton man was one of the two men drowned when the 45 ft. fishing boat Leisure…
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OSLO: The wreckage of the British trawler Laforey (609 tons); from Grimsby, was seen yesterday on a wave-swept…
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PORTO AZZURO (Elba): The navy has completed plans to raise the wreckage of the Comet jet liner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amphibious Vehicles Wrecked 100 Soldiers in Sea. Three Lost
Early Monday morning, twenty amphibious vehicles set out to sea from Newcastle and struck rough weather off Morna Point. Eight of the craft were swamped and sunk…
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OTTAWA: A west-bound airliner and a Canadian Air Force training plane, colliding in the air and crashing 4000 feet in flames, yesterday gave Canada its worst airlines disaster with 37 dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bombs, Mines. Washed Ashore
WASHINGTON: Heavy seas had washed World War II. bombs and mines on to Wake Island beaches in the past…
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Communist China yesterday declared that any attempt to bring the United Nations into the problem of restoring peace in Indo-China would wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pests Wreck Harvest
MAINNZ (Germany): Swarms of caterpillar have stripped thousands of fruit trees in the Rhineland and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blunt Warning by Britain Communist Demands on Indo-China issue May Wreck Geneva Conference
GENEVA. Friday: Britain served notice on Communits that they will wreck the Indo-China Peace Conference unless they give up armistice demands unnceptable to the West. Reuter's diplomatic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Split Between East and West Widening at Geneva Eden Warns Communists They Will Wreck Negotiations
GENEVA: Britain has served notice on the Communists that they will wreck the Indo-China peace conference un[?]ess they give up armistice demands unacceptable to the West. Reuter’s diplomatic correspondent says that the blunt warning delivered by…
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NEISPRUIT (South Africa): Short wave radio stations have been installed at key points in the vast Kruger…
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NEISPUIT (South Africa). Short-wave radio stations have been installed at key points in the vast Kruger…
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NEWCASTLE: Three seamen are in hospital here with typhoid fever. They are off the River Murray, an…
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LORD HOWE ISLAND: The s.s. Jaques del Mar foundered at daylight this morning on a reef near the North Passage…
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While Scotland’s Clydeside Is justly famed for It output of giant liners, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Attempt to Wreck Boats
Port Macquarle Police are investigating an unsuccessful attempt to wreck two 50ft. fishing boats, valued at £5,000…
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