Wrecked Belgian Plane Found
NEWFOUNDLAND, Sept. 20. A.A.P.—Wreckage of a Belgian Transatlantic airliner has been found in billy country 22 miles from the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
147 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 8
Jewish Refugees Try to Swim Ashore
HAIFA, September 23. A.A.P.—In a desperate attempt to swim ashore, over 30 Jewish refugees jumped overboard from the immigrant ship, Palmach, lying three miles off Haifa, when Army officers…
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PARIS, Sept. 23. A.A.P.—Eight bodies were found near a wrecked American military aircraft on a mountain near Grenoble…
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LONDON, September 29. A.A.P.— No trace has been found of Captain Sir Geoffrey De Havilland, whose tailless jet plane Swallow (D.H.108)…
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Two Greek fishermen who clung to the wreckage of their launch throughout Sunday night were rescued at 6 a.m. yesterday…
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CHUNGKING, Sunday.—When a Chinese airliner crashed in West China on Septem. ber 20, the pilot and passengers are believed to have turned the machine into a fort to fight off wild tribesmen before they were captured. Reliable Chinese and American…
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SYDNEY: Rough weather delayed the steamer Mulubinba on the way from Newcastle to Sydney and so saved a luxury launch with two men aboard from almost certain disaster on Long Reef early today…
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Greater Newcastle Council Works Committee will inspect the remains of the wreck of the ship, Maianbar, at Nobbys Beach, with a view to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Australian naval tug Waree (233 tons) was driven ashore in a gale at the entrance to the Clarence River late this afternoon. The crew—two officers and 19 men—reached shore…
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GRAFTON, Friday.—It is now certain that the Navy tug Waree, which went aground on the Clarence Bar…
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SYDNEY Sunday.—There would be an inquiry this week into the wreck of the naval tug Waree, said a Navy spokesman. The Waree went…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A 40-hour week would disrupt the price structure, would result in no real benefit to employees under the…
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After completion of bunkering to-day the 42-year-old Panamanian steamer Kotor will leave Newcastle for the last time…
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SYDNEY: With three of her crew of four dead and the lone survivor in desperate plight, the 45-foot, 15-ton auxiliary ketch Nova, which vanished from the N.S.W. coast nearly five…
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CHARGED and burning wreckage of an Eastern Airlines plane, after it hud ploughed into a hilly farm pasture en route from Atlanta to Washington. Twenty-two passengers and a crew of four escaped death…
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SYDNEY—Safeblowers, using gelignite, wrecked the office of N. B. Love Pty. Ltd.'s flour mills at Enfield to-day, but failed to open the safe…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—With only one of her crew of four alive,, the 45ft. 15-ton auxiliary ketch, Nova, was wrecked on or about the Isle of Pines, near New Caledonia, on October 7…
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LONDON, Oct. 29. A.A.P.—The Stanhope Steamship Company advised that its cargo ship Stanburn foundered off Sfax (Tunis)…
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ROME, October 31. A.A.P.—Time bombs which exploded in the British Embassy shortly after 1 o'clock this morning, wrecked an entire wing of the building, says Associated Press. One Italian was killed and three injured when…
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NOUMEA, Monday.—Both police and the Harbor Master at Noumea are expecting a request from Sydney today for an inquiry into the Nova disaster. The Harbor Master (M. Robineau) says the inquiry will probably touch…
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