Four Wrecked Men Safe
LAUNCESTON, Wed.: Four men wrecked on Cygnet Island last weekend are now safe at Swan Island lighthouse…
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Wrecked ’plane located
NEW YORK, Wed.: The wreckage of a C-47 Air Force twin-engined transport plane, which disappeared on Sunday afternoon on an eastward flight from San Francisco, was located…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Four members of a fishing party whose launch was wrecked on a rock in Bass Strait last Thursday…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: A pleasure launch was wrecked and a ketch was disabled in heavy sees near Sydney today. A tug, a police launch, and four surf boats took part in the rescue of the 45ft. ketch with 16 men aboard…
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LONDON, Mon: One nurse and three doctors dashed 50 miles in an open lifeboat in thick fog and stormy weather yesterday for an…
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Something of the nature of the pandemonium which the famous military command “left about tum” can give to untrained troops…
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BURNED-OUT WRECKAGE of a twin-engined Avro Anson plane which crashed at Padstow on Sunday. The pilot, Barney James Moore, 30, and a passenger,. Mrs. Lolita Gregory, 28, died in the crash. Another passenger, ten years old son of Mrs. Gregory, walked out of the wreckage suffering only stock. "Daily Telegraph" photo…
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SYDNEY, Wed: A Cessnock miner who stole another man’s wife was ordered in the Divorce Court today to pay £1000 damages…
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WILMINGTON (Cal.) Tues.: One man was killed and eight others were injured yesterday when a steel lifeboat fell 75 feet…
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BALBOA, Thurs.: A United States naval patrol ship today picked up 18 survivors from the crippled Colombian schooner…
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ISMAILIA, Wed.: Wreckage of the British Mosquito photo reconnaissance aircraft which crashed last night was shotted from…
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SUVA, Tues.: Eleven Fijians are feared to have been drowned following the loss of the sailing cutter Tui Maloku in the Fijian…
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PARIS, Mon.: Peasants today found in thawing snow near Mt. Aigoul, central France, wreckage of a RAF Wellington aircraft…
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The little-known, highly technical wrecking industry, now a 100,000,000 dollar a year business, draws nationwide interest this…
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From Halifax (N.S.), it is reported that floating timber, believed to be part of the cargo of a missing Maritime Central Airways plane,…
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SWIFT CURRENT (Sas.), Mon.: A million-dollar bridge, which took two years to build and which was the only link…
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A utility was completely wrecked, the owner received a broken arm, and two passengers were treated at Deniliquin…
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NEW YORK, Mon.: The Portuguese cargo vessel Monte Brasd (2334 tons) which was damaged in a eallision with…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: When 500 detonators loaded with fulminate of mercury exploded during a fire which razed the office of…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Passenger fares to Tasmanian ports by the steamer Taroona were increased as from today. The…
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