Hurricane Wrecks Radar Station
The hurricane which hit Florida, United States, last week caused widespread damage. Top: The U.S. Army Radar station…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 9
Ketch's World Cruise
PERTH, Friday.—The ketch Shangri-La is expected to leave Fremantle on a world cruise about the middle of October…
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LONDON, Sept. 29—Skipper "Dod" Orsborne, of "Girl Pat" fame, set out alone on June 25 to cross the Atlantic in a 39ft. ketch. "Lovely…
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Two well-known vessels of Newcastle Harbor are both in the floating dock this morning. They are the pilot steamer Birubi and the…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A big food cargo for Britain will be lifted by the Port Jackson, which arrived to-day. After loading 22,000 boxes of butter…
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Missing since yesterday, when he disappeared in his monoplane on a flight from Kempsey to Newcastle, Mr. James Whiteman, of Mosman, was sighted this afternoon by an R.A.A.F…
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HAMBURG, October 7. A.A.P.— George Orsborne, who was picked up 750 miles east of Newfoundland while trying to sail the 39ft. ketch Lovely…
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The vehicular ferry Lurgurena and pilot steamer Birubi entered the floating dock yesterday for hull repainting…
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The Works Committee decided last night to call tenders for the removal of the remains of the wreck of the Ma[?]anbar, at Nobbys Beach…
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After a record stern-first tow of 2000 miles from Jomard Reef (100 miles from Samarai, Papua), the 10,000 ton Australian motorship Reynella reached Sydney yesterday. The stern-street tow was made because the ship's bulkheads would not have withstood the strain of heavy seas. The ship was damaged after being stranded on a dangerous reef…
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PERTH, Friday.—The 80ft. auxiliary ketch, Shangri-La, will leave Fremantle on Monday morning for Melbourne, where final arrangements will…
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LONDON, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—Known deaths as a result of the derailment of the Edinburgh to London express at Goswick on Saturday now total…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The dismissal of a Seamen's Union delegate, Mr. P. Pavey, on the interstate freighter Mundalla has caused the ship,…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—More than 100 wharflabourers pushed the steamer Madura (9000 tons) away from its berth at Port Adelaide…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The wreckage of a plane, believed to be that do a Percival Gull which has been missing since it left Mascot on August 26, has…
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This 54-ton refugee auxiliary schooner "Svea, which brought 24 Estonians and Latvians 5000 miles from Sweden, arrived at Florida last…
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HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Nov. 4. A.A.P.—The U.S. Army transport ship, John Stafford, reported that it had rescued the crew of 30 from the…
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A 40ft. ketch, manned by four Australians on a round the world cruise, arrived at Durban from Re-union Island, on Tuesday, five months…
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NEW DELHI, Nov. 13. A.A.P.— "You have now had' a taste of what Pakistan means," said the Premier of the Indian Dominion (Pandit Nehru)…
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PALESTINE, Mon. (A.A.P.): Between 150 and 200 illegal Jewish migrants made a beach-head landing near Haifa at 2 a.m. yesterday, and dispersed inland. Jewish sources said that the…
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