Ferry Steamer's Rough Passage
SYDNEY: The Union Company's inter-island ferry steamer, Wahine. with 220 passengers, arrived at Sydney today from Wellington. The…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 9
Bodies Washed Ashore From Wrecked Collier
LONDON, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—Twelve bodies of members of the crew of the colliery Ary have been washed ashore in the Youghal and Armdmore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dakota Wreck Found in Germany
LONDON, Feb. 23. A.A.P.—After a 24-hour search, following the report at a crash and burst of flame in a forest, American military police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion Wrecks Lift Well
SYDNEY, Monday. — A lift well was wrecked, parts of a concrete floor torn up, doors hurled from their hinges, dozens of windows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gas Blast Wrecks Homes: One Death
LONDON, Tuesday: Gas escaping from a broken main caused an explosion which wrecked two houses in Westcliff (Essex) and killed a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Trace of Wrecked Dutch Plane
BRISBANE, Thursday.—No trace has been found of the wreckage or bodies from the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed into the sea yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Naval Men In Sharp Clash On Illegal Emigrant Steamer
JERUSALEM, Friday: British naval boarding parties fired shots and used tear gas before they overcame illegal Jewish migrants resisting removal from the refugee…
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LONDON, March 2. A.A.P.—At the inquiry by the Ministry of Civil Aviation into the crash of a Dakota aircraft at Croydon Airport on…
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BOSTON, March 3. A.A.P.—Members of the Coastguard, using a breeches buoy, across 150 yards of turbulent shoal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scouts "Shipwreck" Week-end
Patrol leaders and their patrols held a "shipwreck" week-end at Glenrock Training Camp. Out-of-door work was cancelled because of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Evans Of The Broke, Shipwrecked
LONDON, March 5. A.A.P.—Lord Mountevans (Evans of the Broke) after coming ashore as jaunty as ever from the wrecked Bolivar,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Skeleton May Be of Wreck Victim
KEMPSEY.—The police may have to probe into 20-year-old records to solve the mystery of a skeleton found this week at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sikhs' Sacred City Wrecked "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
LONDON, March 10. — Communal savagery has made Amritsar, sacred city of the Sikhs in the punjab, a wreck of its former self. The carnage there was worse than in any other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jews Wreck Officers' Club
Nineteen persons were killed and 26 injured when the Goldsmith Club for British officers was blown up by terrorists in Jerusalem recently. Top: The wrecked club building in Jerusalem. Below: A machine-gunner posted on roof-top to control the streets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girls Wreck Reformatory
SYDNEY: In a wild wanton half- hour today six teen-age inmates of the matta Girls' Industrial Training School caused heavy damage. Barricading themselves in the mess room, they smashed tables and chairs, shattered windows and generally wrecked the room…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →England's Floods Cover Thousands of Miles; Farms, Homes Wrecked
LONDON, Monday.—Floods now extend over thousands of square miles of England and it is possible to travel by boat from the North Sea to the Irish Channel. THE death roll in Sunday night's…
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HONOLULU, Mach 18. A.A.P. —Twenty-two men have been rescued from the severed stern of the wrecked tanker Fort Dearbora…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckage of Lost Plane Located in Sea
BRISBAENE, Tuesday.—Parts of the Dutch Dakota plane which crashed in flames into the sea off Stradbroke Island on February 26 were located…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Workmen Trapped in Wreckage
Five workmen were trapped in the wreckage of a five-storey building which collapsed in Cincinnati, U.S. Operations were being directed when this picture was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Air Search For Man From Wrecked Launch
DARWIN, Wednesday.—An air search is being made for one of four survivors of a fishing launch which was wrecked on Vernon Reef, 45…
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