Shipwrecked Indonesians Await Rescue
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Five shipwrecked Indonesians Indonesians tonight awaited rescue by RAAF Calalina after surviving two months…
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Shipwreck Survivors Going to Rabaul
SYDNEY, Fri: The Minister for External Territries (Mr Ward) said today that the five men located in the Vitn group…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday. — A woman and three men have been rescued from the wrecked steamer Darwin, which is aground off the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—A Lloyd’s message from Alexandria states that the American steamer, Bert Williams, bound from Fremantle…
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LONDON,- Tues.: Lloyds reports that, the steamer Bert Williams, which grounded in the Red.. Sea on April 12; and was reported to…
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MELBOURNE, Sun. — A violent explosion wrecked the interior of the Albany Theatre in Collins st. City, shortly after 2…
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WELLINGTON, Thurs.: The steamer Port Waikato, which is drifting helplessly north of Chatham Islands with a fouled…
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DARWIN, Thurs. — The shipwrecked crew of the 50ft. pearling` lugger, Ibis, were picked up from a small island in Snake Bay, in…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. — The British steamer Pemba on which [?]ive fires broke out during the past few months left Melbourne for…
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BRISBANE, Tues.: Two stockmen today found the wreckage of a large aeroplane and the remains of three or four men…
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BRISBANE, Wed.: The wrecked plane found 35 miles east of Monto yesterday has been identified as a twin-engined…
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LONDON, Tues.: The American steamer William Carsoon, from a position between Oporto and Lisbon has radioed an appeal for help, stating…
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The Gaskin non-capsizable reversible lifeboat, which is to attempt an Atlantic crossing, arrived recently at Cadogan Pier, London. For 30 years its inventor, Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of Knightsbridge, London, has been trying to get the Board of…
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LONDON, Tues.: The London agents of the British steamer, Hellenic Trader (5186 tons), report having, received a message from…
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The finding of two fishplates hidden in the bush near the scene of the smash-up of the south-west mail near Harden on June 30 as a result of which…
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DARWIN, Mon.: A wrecked steel ship, found on the bed of Darwin Harbor by a native perishell driver yesterday, Is believed to be the US…
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A wrecked steel ship, found on the bed of Darwin Harbour by a native pearlshell diver, is believed to be the US destroyer Peary, which was sunk…
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The wreck of the American destroyer; Peary, which was carrying over £1,000,000 worth of gold when she sank in the first Jap air raid on Darwin win 1942, is believed to have been located by a…
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HONG KONG, Mon.: It is reliably leaned that the Dutch steamer Meerkerk will leave Manila early next week for…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Twenty tugs, four of them at Newcastle, and the pilot steamer, Captain Cook, today became involved in…
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