Policemen Wreck Shanghai Cinema
SHANGHAI, July 29. A.A.P.—One hundred policemen to-day wrecked the cinema which was the scene of the row with the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 9
Trawler Wrecked Near Sydney: Ashore In Fog
SYDNEY: After running on to the rocks at Little Bay early today in a fog in a 29 ton trawler, the crew of four had a nightmare experience, culminating in a four-hours' row in a 7ft. dinghy before they scrambled ashore exhausted and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Trawler (Continued from Page One) Rowed Against Westerly For 4 Hours
Taking it in turns to row, the four men then for four hours fought against the westerly wind, making very slow progress towards shore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Bullet Holes In Wrecked Plane
SINGAPORE, July 31.—An inspection of the wreckage of the Indian Dakota, which crashed at Jogjakarta on Wednesday, showed numerous…
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BEFORE THE BLAST.—The 7000-ton Norwegian Ocean Liberty, on fire and loaded with a cargo of nitrate, being inched away from the quayside at Brest (France) by tugs just before she blew up with a shattering blast that was felt in South England. A gas plant and oil…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scuttle Old Pilot Steamer
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The old pilot steamer Captain Cook will be scuttled off Sydney Heads next week, after 40 years'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peaceful Sweeps For R.N.; War Wreck Disposal
THE Royal Navy has a new task It has to dispose of 500 wrecks—relies relies of six years of war—which hitter approaches to Great Birtain's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Gloria Damaged by Fire
LONDON, August 10. A.A.P.—Lloyd's agents at Marseilles say that a fire broke out on the Panamanian steamer Gloria, which had arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drifting Scientists' Story of Raft Wrecked in Storm
NEW YORK, Wednesday: A blow-by-blow radio description of the storm that wrecked their huge raft in the Marquesas Islands has been radioed from Raratonga by the group of Norwegian scientists who drifted across the Pacific. The scientists scrambled ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Korean Lone Survivor Of Jap. Shipwreck
SHANGHAI, Monday: The U.N. R.R.A. fishing vessel Washington radioed that it had picked up a Korean who had been adrift 24 days…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →200 DIE, 5000 Injured in Explosion Cadiz Shipyards Wrecked
MADRID, Aug. 19. A.A.P.—More than 200 people were killed and 5000 injured when an explosion wrecked the Cadiz shipyards. Almost every building in the city was damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire, Explosions Wreck Lacquer Factory
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Six employees had narrow escapes from death and £10,000 damage was caused in a series of explosions and a fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wreck Removal In Throsby Creek
The last of the old wrecks which littered Throsby Creek, near Carrington ton bridge, were partly removed by a Public Works Department barge,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fireman Feared III-Treatment, Left Steamer
Anthony Black, 19, ship's fireman, said in Newcastle Summons Court yesterday, that he left his ship because he feared ill-treatment from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wrecked off Newcastle
Top: The Federal, which ran aground on Stockton Beach; the City of Newcastle, wrecked on the rocks at the foot…
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A model of Australia's first steamer and the first steamer to come to Newcastle, the Sophia Jane, in 1831, is displayed at the Historical and Philate lie Exhibition at Tyrrell House. Barry Howell, of Waratah, examines the model…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swerved to Avoid Child; Van Wrecked
When it was swerved to avoid a child crossing the road at Charlestown yesterday, a panel van driven by R. Mason, of Gateshead, crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Call Tenders For Removal Of Nobbys Wreck
Because new equipment was available, the Beaches Liaison Committee of Greater Newcastle Council decided last night to call for new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Termites Cross Tasman, Wreck N.Z. Timber Pile
AUCKLAND, Friday.—White ants which came from Australian in a hardwood pole, which was erected in an Auckland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hurricane Wrecks City Of New Orleans; 30,000 Homeless
NEW YORK, Friday: New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi, was wrecked by the hurricane which earlier had left a trail of devastation in southern Florida…
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