Stores Ashore At Cape Gloucester
Despite the heavy swell, Marines see that stores get ashore at Cape Gloucester…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
72 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 4
Yachtsmen Saved by Pilot Steamer
SYDNEY.—In danger of being dinned on the rocks, a yacht, with three youths aboard, was saved by the pilot steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Infantry Cheered as Tanks Roared Ashore at Saidor
When an American task force successfully landed at Saidor (North-eastern New Guinea) on Sunday morning, low clouds and misty rain along the shore made visibility difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck Removal Delay
Removal of the week off Nobbys Beach has again been held up. The hull of the Maianbar was blown up by N.E.S. several months…
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An extension to the end of January for removal of the wreck at Nobbys was granted the contractor ( Mr. Allen) by Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bus Turned to Wreckage
Tangled wreckage of a motor of the ill-fated bus. Left: Driver Jack Sponburg, of Punchbowl, and fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Japanese Picquet Boat
A Japanese picquet boat wrecked at the mouth of the Kapugar a River, in New Guinea. These boats fulfil a similar function to American P.T. boats, but are of smaller construction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nobbys Wreck Removal
"I am as anxious as you to remove the wreck off Nobbys, but conditions have been against me," the contractor (Mr. A. Allen) told…
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A Japanese cargo vessel sunk by U.S. bombers in Lorengau Bay Admiralty Islands…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australians Go Ashore
Australian troops go ashore from an LC.M. near Sio Mission. Department of Information photograph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Salvage From Wrecked Tanker
SYDNEY.—A new industry and small village have sprung up around the wrecked US tanker, above Bass Point, Shellharbor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrecks of New Zero Gave Up Secrets
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The War Department disclosed that the latest type of Zero plane has been reconstructed from five shot down…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →24 Perish When Storm Drives Freighter Ashore
NEW YORK, Wednesday.—A British freighter of 7200 tons was driven ashore at York (Maine) in a blinding blizzard and gale…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freighter Ashore; 24 Dead
NEW YORK, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—A British freighter of 7200 tons was driven ashore at York (Maine) in a blinding blizzard and gale on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Famous Church Wrecked By Bombs
ALL that remains of one of Ortona's finest churches—the Church of San Tomas. The Canadians finished their grim task of five days' street fighting in this coastal town, during which they cleared the streets of 'snipers and machine-gunners street by street. Dept of Information photo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Houses Wrecked in Tornado at Narrabri
NARRABRI.—The 80 mph tornado that struck Narrabri at 4.30 p.m. yesterday left a trail of wrecked buildings. Heavy rain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Plant Wrecked In Gotha Raid
LONDON, Sunday.—Germany's vast aircraft plant at Gotha was practically wiped out in the raid by Liberators…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finns Wreck Peace Hopes
Correspondent in Moscow. MOSCOW, Tuesday.—Finland has cooked her goose with the Russians. They are so mad with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dumped Food Washed Ashore
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—About a dozen cases of tinned foodstuff, believed to be portion of a quantity dumped by the Army off the Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →V.A.O.C. Helped Find Plane Wreckage
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A wing and other wreckage from an Allied plane, found by a Volunteer Defence Corps search party on the…
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