Jap Sub. Wreck Off U.S. Coast
SAN FRANCISCO. Saturday.—Wreckage of a Jap submarine has been found just outside Los Angeles harbor by a Navy diver…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
147 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 8
No Trace Found of Ketch
BRISBANE, Monday.—No trace has been found of the 90-foot auxiliary ketch Yalta, reported to be drifting near Thursday Island with five…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The whereabouts of the 60-ton auxiliary ketch Yalata is still a mystery, Cairns police said to-day…
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SYDNEY: After a dramatic battle for over 12 hours, four men in the disabled motor trawler Merlynda were rescued before daylight today by the steamer Mulubinba five miles off Terrigal. The engine had broken down hope-…
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MELBOURNE.—The 60-ton auxiliary ketch Yalta has arrived at Melville Bay, 300 miles on the eastern tip of Arnhem Island "safe but disabled."…
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LONDON, Aug. 16. — Miss Muriel Owen, of Melbourne will be unable to reach Australia as early as she hoped for her marriage to…
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PERTH: The crew of the British freighter Baron Herries, now in Fremantle harbor, is allergic to cats…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Scheduled to sail from Sydney yesterday for Brisbane, the Ormiston is held up indefinitely by a dispute over cooks…
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RIO DE JANEIRO. Sept. 1. A.A.P. — Damage totalling thousands of dollars was done by rioting students who…
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CARACAS (Venezuela), Sept. 2.— Rioters wrecked the bull ring here when they did not get the rumba they wanted…
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LONDON, September 3. A.A.P.— French and American aircraft are conducting a dramatic search for survivors of the weeked American…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday—Robert Stephen, of Nelson's Bay, and William Roberts, of Newcastle, were in the crew of a small ketch which…
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After being swept by cyclonic winds and buffeted by mountainous seas for almost 24 hours, a ketch which left Nelson's Bay on Tuesday of last week returned safely to port late on Monday night…
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LONDON, Sept. 10. A.A.P.—Communists broke up a meeting at Leeds held by Union Book Club members who support Sir Oswald Mosley's…
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THE auxiliary ketch, Bintang Siang meaning Morning Star, now in Newcastle Harbour, was a successful raider…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Police are investigating the theft yesterday of 50,000 cigarettes, valued at £400 from the steamer Trienza, which is…
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NEW YORK. Sunday: A Norwegian tanker, Marit II. sank in a gale 140 miles off the North Carolina coast yesterday and 19 of the crew are believed drowned…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Coastguard headquarters announced that an Army plane has sighted a raft with additional survivors of the wrecked…
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SUVA, Sept. 20. A.A.P.—Eruptions at Niuafoou Island, in the Tongan group, are continuing and the area of devastation spreading, says…
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LONDON, Sept. 20. A.A.P.—A heavy explosion partly demolished Haifa's eastern railway station, says Reuter's Haifa correspondent…
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