Yacht Battered By Gale Calls for Help
LONDON, Feb. 26. A.A.P.—The British 308-ton yacht Tornado the Second, which is sailing from Southampton for Cape Town with 14 men,…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 19
Cyclone and Floods Again in Queensland : May Rechn.s.w.border
BRISBANE: A cyclonic depression is operating along the Queensland coast between St. Lawrence and Rockhampton producing flood rains from Mackay to the N.S.W. border…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—After an ambulance plane, which was bringing, a sick woman from Charleville, was forced down twice, the patient…
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SYDNEY: Flood waters are rising on northern rivers as a result of heavy rain which has fallen during the last 24 hours…
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SYDNEY: Apart from a few places on the North Coast, fine weather prevailed throughout the State at 9 a.m. today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Floodngs could be expected on the northern rivers, said the State Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) to-night. Heavy rains now falling in southern Queensland were…
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LA PAZ (Bolivia), March 2. A.A.P.— Fourteen flying boats from five countries lands yesterday on the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The cyclone, which caused heavy floods in the south-east portion of Queensland would probably miss the Northern…
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SYDNEY.—The flood waters at Angledool and New Angledool, near the Queensland border are receding quickly, but further heavy flooding…
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NEW YORK, March 4. A.A.P.—A storm that lashed the north-eastern area of the United States and eastern Canada on Sunday and Monday…
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SYDNEY: The Darling and Barwon Rivers are still at flood level at some points. At Mogil and Barwon is 1ft. 1in…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Described as the worst in living memory, still another blizzard is lashing Britain from South Wales almost to the North Sea…
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The short, sharp thunderstorm caught some surfers unawares yesterday afternoon. These two snatched up their belongings and ram for shelter at Merewether Beach…
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A heavy rainstorm reduced the attendance of competitors and spectators at an impromptu surf carnival at Merewether Beach…
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Twenty-one points of rain was registered by Mr. Cyril Griffiths yesterday afternoon, when a short thunderstorm broke over the city at…
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LONDON, March 10 A.A.P —A thaw, with heavy rainfall, is spreading over southern England, says the Air…
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If a proposal made at a meeting of the Flood Mitigation Committee in Newcastle were carried out, it would mean that the Tomago…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—The Department of Works will be asked to take immediate action to restore the Great Marlow flood…
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LONDON, March 12.—Swollen by the thaw, four of Britain's nine river Avons have caused widespread floods in southern England. While the blizzard continued in…
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HONOLULU, Thursday: Rescue ships at dawn today were standing off the two sections of the wrecked American tanker Fort Dearborn, preparing to make a desperate bid to snatch the crew from death. The Fort Dearborn (6000 tons)…
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