Wreckage in Messina Recalls Quake
LONDON, Wed.—Despatches from Messina describe the damage done to the city as comparable with that caused by the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943
78 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 4
Trondheim Base Wrecked
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—"Three and a half years of work on the German U-boat base at Trondheim, Norway, was undone in less than 10…
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A.B. Walter Edward Pallant, who has been shipwrecked five times, will tell some of his experiences as a merchant seaman over 2NC…
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LONDON, Aug. 23.—Denmark's largest aluminium factory, situated in Copenhagen, the capital was completely destroyed by sabotage on…
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LONDON, Aug. 25.—"The Danish Situation, from the German point of view, is completely out of hand," says the Stockholm correspondent of the…
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LONDON, Friday.—According to Rome radio, a bomb destroyed an archaeological museum in Pompell, near Naples…
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GEELONG, Friday.—Two girls were drowned, and two fishermen had remarkable escapes when a fishing boat was wrecked in heavy seas near…
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After 31 days in a lifeboat, 19 of the crew of a merchant ship sunk recently in the Indian Ocean have reached an Australian port. Three…
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Arrangements for the blowing-up of the Maianbar wreck by a N.E.S. special demolition squad have been cancellled. The hull of the old ship,…
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Solicitors for Mr. A. Allen have been instructed to claim damages and recompense from Greater Newcastle Council unless the council…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—An addition to civil defence education would be instruction in extricating of persons from wrecked aircraft…
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Rescinding its resolution which cancelled the contract at its last meeting. Greater Newcastle Council decided to give Mr. A. Allen…
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Giant railway cranes lift the locomotive which left the rails near Thornton last Wednesday. It will be recalled that the fireman, Ronald T. Johnson, of Islington was pinned for five hours under the locomotive. It was thought that his leg would have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Man's Experiences Torpedoed, in Lifeboat Eight Days
Torpedoed by a submarine and the victim of severe privations in a lifeboat for eight days and a half in mid-Indian…
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The contractor for removal of the old Maianbar from Nobbys Beach, Mr. A. Allen, gave an assurance to Greater Newcastle Council that he…
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The old Maianbar wreck on Nobbys Bench will be demolished and removed by the end of the year, the contractor told Greater…
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Embedded in the sand at Nobbys Beach for many months, the remainder of the hull of the wrecked steamer Maianbar is likely to be…
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Three shots of "gelatyne-dynamite" were used to cut the hull of the wrecked steamer Maianbar into three pieces as it lay embedded in the sand…
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A small New Zealand Army patrol captured a Jap schooner intact at Varuasi, wiped out tho crew and…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An explosion and fire which wrecked the banking chamber of the Bank of New Zealand building and caused…
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