Wreckage Reported Sighted At Sea
SINGAPORE, June 12.—A British Overseas Airways Corporation flying-boat yesterday afternoon reported having sighted wreckage, with…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 9
Company Given £50,000 For Loss Of Steamer
MELBOURNE, Friday.—A judgment for £50,000 in favour of the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company for the loss of the…
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The 446-ton wooden steamer Paterson, which was built at Balmain, in 1920, has been tied up in Sydney and offered for sale. She was well…
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JERUSALEM, June 18. A.A.P.—A powerful explosion wrecked the basement of a block of flats in Tel Aviv, where a big cache of terrorist…
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MELBOURNE—Rough seas have subsided in Bass Strait and shipping is back to normal. No report has yet been received…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A ketch which arrived in Sydney to-day and a ship, which berthed at Adelaide reported heavy weather on their passages…
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CHICAGO, June 29. A.A.P.—The United States now had a stockpile of new and improved atom bombs which, according to usually…
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TOWNSVILLE: The crew of H.M A. S. Lachlan believe that a sunken wreck they have located is that of the Yongala, which disappeared about 40 years ago. The wreck is on the shipping route between Mackay and Townsville…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Thieves who ransacked a flat in Victoria-street, King's Cross, to-day, smashed furniture, tore up floor coverings,…
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WELL KNOWN on the Eastern coast when Newcastle was only a township, Captain Richard Arnold, survived…
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NEW YORK, Monday: Fears that deterioration in relations between the U.S. and Russia may undermine the United Nations Organisation have been discussed at several secret conferences at Lake Success. U.N.O. Headquarters…
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The tall section of an aircraft half-buried in the sand has been found on a tiny bay 40 miles from Yampi Sound (W.A.) by the crew of…
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The ketch No Ke Aloha, which sailed from Sydney for Brisbane nearly three months ago, will leave Newcastle this morning for Sydney…
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MONTREAL, Sunday: A weird mystery of the sea was unfolded when the skipper of the Maria G. told of how…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—The Filipino boxer, "Young" Frisco, and two other Manila boxers were among the aliens not allowed to land from the…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.—The steamer Wairata sailed today with more than £7000 worth of animals and poultry on board…
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LONDON: Youths with hammers and axes were caught wrecking a carved altar in Birkenhead's Church of Our Lady…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—One lifeboat with some of the crew of the steamer Gippsland (133 tons), which foundered this morning in heavy seas, landed 100 miles north-west of Port Moresby late this…
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AUCKLAND, July 25. A.A.P.—Twelve hundred wristlet watches, valued at £500, were pillaged from the steamer Kent…
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PARIS, Tuesday: Twenty-three are reported dead and 1100 injured (100 seriously) in a fearful explosion which partly wrecked the French port of Brest…
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