No Cigarettes So Men Wrecked Milk Bar
SYDNEY: Two young ex-servicemen who pleaded guilty to assisting another man to smash up a Bankstown milk bar on February 24 after…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 9
Missing Lifeboat Found: No Sign Of Crew
HONOLULU, March 30. A.A.P.— The steamer China Victory found the missing lifeboat from the tanker Fort Dearborn, which broke in two on…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A search party recovered to-day the charred bodies of the two members of the crew of the R.A.A.F. Mosquito plane which crashed into Saddle Mountain, south of Townsville, last…
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CAPE TOWN, April 1. A.A.P.— The Greek steamer, George M. Livanos, from Australia, went ashore in Table Bay…
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DARWIN, Thursday.—A Catalina searching the Golf country for the missing New Zealand Mosquito aircraft sighted the wreckage of a…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—The wreckage of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Mosquito bomber, which has been missing for 10 days on a flight from Darwin to Townsville, has…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A four-ton elephant was used to clear the wreckage when a motor truck and tram collided in Chalmers-street, City…
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DARWIN, Sunday.—Members of a launch party found the bodies of two airmen in the cabin of their crashed R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito plane off Sydney…
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BATAVIA, April 6. A.A.P.—The wreck of a Dutch Dakota missing on a half-hour flight between Batavia and Bandoeng since March 12 was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Steamer Has No Cash To Pay Repairs
SYDNEY: The Chinese steamer, Hwa Lien, has been delayed in Sydney by shortage of money, needed to pay for dockyard…
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A SHIP considered a total loss when she was wrecked on a coral reef during a 120 mile-an-hour hurricane off the…
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Two seamen, Donald Alexander Campbell (24) and Noel Kidger (20), became involved in some trouble in Hunter Street yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Explosion Wrecks Sydney Plant; £50,000 DAMAGE Eight Hurt, One Blown Through Roof
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An explosion in chemical works at Rosebery early to-night almost wrecked the building, injured eight employees, caused £50,000 damage, and shattered windows a mile away…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1200 Dead, 3500 Injured §&&C^ tf -3;- Ship Explodes In Texas Port Fires Unchecked, City Wrecked
NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed and 3500 injured in a series of explosions which today practically destroyed Texas City (on the Gulf of Mexico). The French freighter Grand Camp, loaded with ammonium-nitrate and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Guard On Wrecked Sydney Factory
SYDNEY: A strong guard has been posted around the Rosebery factory which was wrecked by an explosion last night. There is still danger of fumes from chemicals exploding…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—A freak willy-willy on Thursday night is thought to have completely wrecked the Kongorong Methodist Church,…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday—At least 20 were killed and 100 injured when a tornado struck the village of Worth (Missouri)…
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SHIP BROKEN IN TWO.—Pounded by heavy seas, the British-operated Liberty ship Samtampa broke in two after being driven ashore in an 80-mile-an-hour gale near Porthcawl, Wales Fifty lives were lost in the disaster.t…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →8 Dead, 60 Hurt, 4 Missing In Qld. Rail Smash Picnickers Trapped In Wreckage
BRISBANE: At least eight were killed and more than 60 injured when a train loaded with picnickers from the Customs and Excise Department left the rails about three-quarters of a mile…
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THREE Sydney men have arrived in Newcastle in an auxiliary ketch, built by themselves, on the first stage of a…
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