Heavy Vehicles Are Being Wrecked Excessive Speed Sends Grash Rate Soaring
Two heavy vehicles were approaching a narrow bridge from opposite ends. Neither gave way and they collided…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
53 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 3
Ketch Made Ready for World Trip
SYDNEY, Saturday. — Lastminute preparations pre being made by the crew of the 40 foot gaff ketch, Kathleen,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Steamer in Trouble Tug Racing to Assistance ADELAIDE
In response to a wireless call for asistance from the British steamer, Fort Esperance, the tug Foremost began a seventy mile dash from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yacht in Trouble Again Utiekah Battered On Voyage To Sydney Taken in Tow by Steamer Port Stephens
After another terrific battering in a gale, the yacht, Uliekah II, again put into harbour, this time at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Royal Navy Clearing Seas of 500 Shipwrecks
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea approaches to Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War-time Wrecks Royal Navy's Arduous Task Clearing Britain's Coast
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →650 Drowned When Small Steamer Sinks
BOMBAY, Friday. -- More than 650 people are estimated to have been drowned when the Indian Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survivers of Wrecked Steamer Washed Ashore In Papua BRISBANE
One liftboat with some of the crew of the wrecked 132 ton wooden steamer Gippsland, which foundered in heavy seas 90 miles north west of Port…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—One lifeboat with some of the crew of the wrecked 132-ton wooden steamer Gippsland,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer Explosion Casualties, 20 Dead, 500 Injured
LONDON, Wednesday. -- The provisional casualty list resulting from this weeks tragic explosion in the Norwegian steamer Ocean…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Policemen Killed by Terrorist Bomb Explosion Wrecks Building
JERUSALEM, Wednesday.--Three British constables were killed when Jewish terrorists set off a time bomb in the Palestine Government's labour department building yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Breakdown Gangs Clear Rail Smash Wreck
LONDON, Monday. — Breakdown gangs worked throughout yesterday clearing the wreckage of the train disaster near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ninety Bodies From Wrecked Mine
LONDON, Monday.-- Ninety bodies have been recovered from White haven Colliery following Friday's explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Public School Wrecked Vandals' Wanton Destruction SYDNEY
Vandals, believed to be schoolboys, partly wrecked Daceyville Public School on Saturday night. Detectives said that never before…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Schoolboys Wreck Daceyville School Sydney
Vandals, believed to be schoolboys or youths, partly wrecked the Daceyville public school on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hundreds Believed Dead; Spanish Harbor Explosion Orphanage Wrecked
LONDON, Wednesday. — Although the Spanish authorities have clomped down a blanket censorship over the explosion area, the American Associated Press says it is now feared that 1000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane Wreck May Be Southern Cloud
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Department of Civil Aviation is investigating a report that may lead to the discovery of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Southern Gloud Mystery Wreckage in Victoria May Solve Dispperarance MELBOURNE
The Department of Civil Aviation is investigating a report lead to the discovery of the wreckage of the airliner, Southern Cloud,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seeking Gold of Two Wrecks
Pure gold to the value of some £3,000,000, believed to be lying in the battered hulk of the "General Grant," wrecked in the mouth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canadian Rail Tragepy 27 Bodies Recovered From Wreckage Many Listed As Missing WINNIPEG (Manitoba)
Twenty-seven bodies so far have been removed from the wreckage of the two Canadian national railway trains which…
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