Yacht Battles Gales to Port
HOBART, Monday.—The 34ft. Sydney cutter Nimbus limped into Hobart at 2.25 p.m. to-day after having battled gales and high seas under jury rig in Storm Bay on Sunday night…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 22
9 Die In Storms In Britain
LONDON, Dec. 31. A.A.P.—At least nine people have been killed in storms which have swept England for two…
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DENVER (Colorado), Jan. 1. A.A.P.—At least five people were killed in heavy snow, avalanches, gale-force winds…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).—A new storm threatened the already turbulent Atlantic today, as the master of the Flying Enterprise clung alone to his crippled freighter for the fifth day awaiting arrival of a tug from England…
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NOUMEA, Jan. 4. A.A.P.—The New Hebrides group of islands have been partly wrecked by a series of the…
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LONDON, Jan. 4.—A south-west gale of more than 40 miles an hour hit the crippled and listing Flying Enterprise to-day and caused anxiety for the safety of Captain Kurt Carlsen…
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Floods and now the dry spell have created a critical situation in the Hunter Valley dairy industry. Dairymen said last night…
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Southerly gales, which at times reached 60 m.p.h., have left a trail of devastation through the State…
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MELBOURNE: Kurrewa III, one of six yachts in the trans-Tasman ocean race is hove to with bare…
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Fierce electrical storms and winds caused widespread damage and interrupted electricity and telephone services in many parts of New South Wales yesterday…
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LONDON, Wednesday, (A.A.P.): The battered U.S. freighter Flying Enterprise and…
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Port Stephens Shire Council yesterday approved in principle a flood warning scheme proposed for the Hunter…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Captain "Stayput" Carlsen and his battered freighter are drifting helplessly toward the French coast…
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SEATTLE, Sun. (A.A.P.). — All search flights were cancelled today as a fierce storm lashed the North Pacific area where the American freighter Pnnsylvania and her…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. (A.A.P.)—An intense storm blew down from Alaska to-day with more rain on…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.)—The Orkney Islands yesterday were hit by a gale with gusts up to 130 m.p.h…
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LONDON, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—The Orkney Islands resembled a battlefield to-day soon after they had been hit…
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LONDON, Jan. 16. A.A.P. —For the second time in 24 hours terrific gales hit northern Britain last night and early…
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LONDON, Jan. 17. A.A.P. —Gales up to 83 miles an hour lashed the south Coast of England to-day, throwing up heavy…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Fears are held for many pearling luggers caught in a cyclone which has whipped the Torres Strait…
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