Ketch Found, Crew Missing
CAIRNS, Monday.—The ketch Priscilla, which was long overdue and for which two naval boats had searched without result, was found…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 6
Missing Ketch Found on Reef
BRISBANE: The auxiliary ketch Priscilla reported missing on a voy age from Cooktown to Cairns since March 18 was found yesterday…
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NEW YORK, March 27. A.A.P.—"An enemy contingent on Sunday landed on Kerama Island, 15 miles to the west of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Wrecked the Referendum" Communists Are Blamed
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Allegations that Communists, by subtle methods, wrecked the Federal Government's Referendum…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Continental Ports Cleared of Wrecks
LONDON, April 2. A.A.P.—British and American naval salvage vessels have raised over 100,000 tons of sunken shipping in Continental ports…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flaes Wreck Marriage, Court Told
SYDNEY: Two fleas wrecked a marriage that had endured 20 years, according to a deserted husband's evidence in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Human Wreck At Age Of 26
Charles H. Lodge. 26, laborer, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment at Newcastle Police Court today on a charge of vagrancy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Potsdam Wrecked
LONDON, April 11. A.A.P.—The R.A.F. raid on Potsdam on Saturday night almost completely eliminated the town, reports the Berlin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane Wreckage on Beach
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Wreckage of a plane found at Crescent Head Beach, five miles from Kempsey, believed to belong to a machine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Exploded In Mid Air Wreckage Fell on Houses In Sydney Suburb
SYDNEY: An R.A.F. bomber exploded while flying over Petersham shortly after 11.15 a.m. today and crashed in two parts on houses, setting one alight. The crew of two were hurled from the machine and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hitler's Favourite Chalet Wrecked
LONDON, May 7. A.A.P.—Hitler's favourite retreat of Hauswachenfeld, eight miles from Berchtesgaden, has been totally Wrecked and gutted by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air Tours of Wrecked Ruhr ("Herald" Service.)
LONDON, May 11.—American Eighth Air Force planes are carrying members of ground and administrative staffs on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Human Wrecks on Nazi Slave Ship
LONDON, May 13. A.A.P.—The German "slave ship, Homburg, arrived rived at Malmo carrying 1379 "human wrecks" from German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage Ashore: No Sign of 5 Missing Doctors
The Navy, Air Force, fishermen, police and civilians have combined in one of the greatest searches ever conducted along the coast in an effort to trace the five young Sydney doctors missing as a result of the sinking of the 42ft. launch, Robin May, off…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Found Only Wreckage Air, Land, Sea Search to Go On
A search by air, land and sea, in which the Navy, Air Force, police, fishermen and more than 100 medical students took part, for four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.A.F. Inquiry: Launch Wreck
AT INQUIRY.—Air-Commodore A. H. Cobby (left), accompanied by Wing-Commander V. S. Vincent, arriving at the inquiry in Melbourne into the resignation of prominent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wreckage at Stockton Second Boat May Be Missing in Gale
Newcastle police are anxious to establish the identity of wreckage recovered from Stockton beach. It is not portion of the Robin May, lost with five men between Catherine Hill Bay and Sydney on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Working Wives Wreck Marriages'
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The economic position created by young wives going to work while their husbands were in the fighting services…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wreckage at Tarakan
The twisted mass of broken pipes seen in the lower picture were once part of a productive oil well on Tarakan. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Body Of Air Chief In Plane Wreckage
LONDON, Friday.— Wreckage of the aircraft which was carrying Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory to Southeast Asia has been…
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