Typhoon Ruins Okinawa 500 Dead: 12 Ships Are Ashore
MANILA, Friday.—The worst typhoon in 20 years has practically destroyed Okinawa (320 miles from Japan) as an American army and air base…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945
102 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 6
Captain Stone Was Wrecked Off N.G.
Captain Frank Stone, of Bendigo, Victoria, and formerly of Stewart-avenue, Hamilton, was shipwrecked off the New Guinea coast. He and his…
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LONDON, October 26. A.A.P.— During the fourth day of the gale which has been raging over Britain, the sloop, H.M.S…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Six members of the R.A.A.F. were killed instantly two miles from Moruya this afternoon when an Avro-Anson plane…
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SYDNEY: The Melbourne paddle-wheel steamer Weeroona completed her service with the U.S. small ships with an exciting voyage from Manila to Sydney. She was adrift for three days among the reefs of the North Queensland coast with a crew of 36 men. She arrived today. The ship was fitted out in Sydney more than a year ago as amenities ship for small ship crews and finished this work in Manila, where she…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Stranded on Bougainville since November 2, the Royal Navy collier Atlas has been declared a total wreek…
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An apprentice seaman who fell down the well dec., of a steamer and broke his leg some miles off the coast on Saturday night was…
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COPENHAGEN, Nov. 19. A.A.P.—The Dutch steamer Amstel (2115 tolls) is feared lost, with all hands, in the Baltic near Langeland. Two liferafts…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Even if public sentiment in Australia would permit a full resumption of trade with Japan, it would be a long time…
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LONDON, Nov. 20.—The shipping shortage is inducing a number of New Zealanders to go home in the ketch Cariad II from Southampton…
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LONDON, Nov. 21. A.A.P.—Lloyds stated that the 5369-ton British steamer Balfe sent out an S.O.S, from mid-Atlantic. She had lost rudder, was…
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The Portuguese steamer Angola (7884 tons), which entered Newcastle Harbour yesterday morning. She will take…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A wrecked R.A.A.F. plane found by natives at Pine Creek, 100 miles from Darwin, is thought to be a missing…
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Children playing on the rusting hulk of the wreck on Nobbys Beach, Surfers consider the wreck a danger…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The pilot steamer Captain, Cook is searching for a 45ft. launch which was reported to have been in distress in…
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. A.A.P.—An allegation that Mr. Dean Acheson (present Under-Secretary of State) had defeated and destroyed…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—An explosion of chemicals at a Marrickville factory late today blew the roof off and scattered it over an area of 100…
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If thrown into the water keel upwards, this newly invented lifeboat will turn over till it is floating normally. Equipped with automatic wireless, it was invented by a swedish engineer and presented in Copenhagen recently…
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A 9ft. shark was washed ashore at the northern end of Newcastle beach yesterday. It was apparently sick and unable to swim out of the…
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A naval air-sea rescue launch, H.M.A.S. Airmist, broke away from its towing corvette a few miles north of Newcastle and drifted on…
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