Gale Blew Yacht Ashore Stopped Hexham Punt
A gale which reached 50 miles an hour in gusts blew a small yacht ashore at Belmont and forced the relief ferry at Hexham to stop…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944
72 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 4
Mission Boat Wrecked
PERTH, Wednesday.—A Presbyterian terian mission ketch carrying Rev. G. H. Holmes, Mrs. Holmes and two children and a crew of five nativer,…
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Tallulah Bankhead is starred in Hitchcock's gripping drama "Lifeboat." The story deals with a group of people whose ship is torpedoed and their experience in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wreckage of Plane Is Found on Beach
Portion of one of the missing Beaufiahter aircraft from Williamtown has been washed up on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Timber Thieves Wreck Shed
"Timber on a shed erected by the Greater Newcastle Council on Griffiths Flat (East Lambton) recreation ground is being broken off and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rescued from Wreckage, Man Kept on Working
After being rescued from underneath the wreckage of a shed yesterday, John Cowan, 47, of Walker-street, Warner's Bay, asked to be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Towns Wrecked In Big Air Blitz
LONDON, Sunday: Duren and Julich ceased to exist as bastions of the Reich defences after the record R.A.F. raid on Thursday. These two combaratively small…
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Canadians in Belgium inspect a bridge over the Albert Canal wrecked by the retreating Germans…
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GOOD WORK.—Wrecked railway trucks at Schulen near the Albert Canals, result of an attack by rocket-firing Typhoons of the R.A.F. on a trainload of 120 flying bombs intended for London. British Official photo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Pictures Of New Parachute Lifeboat
First pictures of the new airborne lifeboat, latest airsea rescue device of the R.A.F. Carried underneath specially equipped Warwick aircraft, the lifeboats are dropped by parachute when airmen are forced down into the sea. Twenty-seven feet long, they have two motors…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collier Runs Ashore West Australia May Need Coal
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) announced to-night that a collier, Fremantle-bound, carrying 7000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Little Hope of Saving Wrecked Collier
PERTH, Monday.—There is little hope of salvaging the 7000-ton collier wrecked off the West Australian coast on Thursday night. The crew were…
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