Lifeboat That Will Not Capsize
LONDON.—A new type of uncapsizable lifeboat, in the form of a metal cylinder 36 feet long and three feet in…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1955
9 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
Vandals Wreck Author’s Home
SYDNEY: An orgy in the week-end house of a well-known author frank Chum is being investigated by police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mill Wrecked In Explosion
MELBOURNE: Damage estimated at £40,000 followers an explosion and fire at Thornbury [?] Mills early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Capsized
HONG KONG: The British steamer Nigelock (946 tons) capsized on her sturhead side after running aground near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America’s New Atomic AA Weapon Could Wreck Flight of Enemy Bombers
NEW YORK: An air-to-air missile with an atomic warhead—the newest anti-aircraft defence of the United States exploded six mile above Nevada yesterday in a test blast said to be powerful enough to wreck a flight of enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →to-day’s Leader Wreckage Discrimination Between Races Condemned by Afro-asian Conference
BANDOENG (Indonesia): During yesterday’s session of session of the 29-nation Afro-Asian conference the Political Committee issued a declaration supporting the Palestine Arabs, and seeking a peaceful solution of the Palestine question…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage
AUSTRALIANS in many walks of life will feel a sense of physical depression on viewing the wreckage of the once great Labour movement. The cleavage is too serious for normal healing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Second Earthquake Wrecks Greek Port; Six Reported Dead
ATHENS: Fewer then 100 houses remain intact in Volos, a Greek seaport of 60,000 people, following a new earthquake yesterday which killed six persons. Panic-stricken crowds, including some of the 3500…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Airliner
NEW DELHI: The British Navy has been asked by the Indian and Indonesian Governments to salvage the…
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