Coastal Steamer Beached
The 446-ton wooden coastal steamer Paterson was beached at Norah Head yesterday after her pumps were unable to cope with the intake of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
161 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 9
Shipwreck Survivors "Pretty Bad"
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Nov. 18. A.A.P.—Thirty shivering survivors of the wrecked British freighter Langleecrag (4909 tons), who have been…
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THE SINKING of the coaster, Paterson, has created much interest at Norah Head. Picture shows some of the large crowd of sightseers watching a salvage crew making an examination of the vessel,…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 26. A.A.P.—The entire crew of 51 apparently perished when the United States Army transport Clarksdale Victory (7607 tons) ran aground off a tiny island off Alaska and…
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NEW YORK, Wed.: A Coastguard party today reported finding four alive and three dead of the crew of the U.S. Army Transport, Clarksdale Victory, wrecked off Southern Alaska. The survivors are three mates and…
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The 1000-ton steam hopper, Curlew, is in the floating dock, having a big section of the bottom replated. The Curlew, which carries mud from harbour dredges to sea, was built at Renfrew in 1909. Many of her forward plates have almost rusted through…
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Mr. E. Wedderspoon's 89ft. schooner is almost ready for launching at the shipyard of Mr. W. Piper, Raymond Terrace…
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Perched precariously across the outside edge of the breakwater at Woosung (Shanghai), the United States Lines' 10,000-ton steamer Lookout is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fear Communists May Wreck U.s. Plan for Europe
NEW YORK, Dec. 5. A.A.P.—Influential officials and Congressmen in Washington fear the United States may lose the battle for recovery in western Europe because of the tactics of Communists in France and Italy…
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LONDON.—A day of mourning was a day of deep pride for a woman in black who stood beside the rails of Mumbles Pier recently and watched…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The 97-ton ketch Taipan may make a shake-down cruise among the Pacific Islands before she sails on her four-year world…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Waterside workers will refuse to handle the steamer Marella when she arrives in Sydney on December 18. They claim…
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HOBART, Wednesday.âTasmania's largest entry in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race, A. E. Palfreyman's 58ft. ketch Matthew Flinders, sailed out of the…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.): The first plane to fly over the wreckage of the army Skymaster, which crashed at midnight in snowy wilderness about eight miles from Goose Bay Airfield, Labrador, sighted a man waving his arms. This is the only sign of life near…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Workmen were still putting finishing touches to the Polar ship Wyatt Earp three minutes before she sailed from Port…
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AFTER running into heavy coastal weather the 74-ton ketch Betty Joan, bound from Port Moresby to Adelaide, entered Newcastle harbour…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—The French three-masted schooner Oiseau des Iles, arrived in Auckland from Tahiti for a refit…
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AUCKLAND, Monday.—An R.N.Z.A.F. Dakota left Auckland to-day for Manila to pick up the crew and passengers of the Dakota which made a…
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SYDNEY; Victorian skipper Norm Blundell (5/44) crashed through N.S.W. seconds today to dismiss the team for 186…
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MANILA, Mon. (A.A.P.).—The Danish ship Kina, which sank in the Christmas Day typhoon, was abandoned 40 minutes after it hit jagged…
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