Miller Wrecker At Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE, May 12. A.A.P.—Australia dismissed Cambridge University for 167 in three and a half hours before tea on a slow wicket which gave bowlers little assistance…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
122 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7
Six Marooned On Wrecked Lugger
DARWIN.—A pearling lugger lies wrecked on a small atoll north of Melville Island, with six half-castes marooned…
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DARWIN, Wednesday.—News of the wreck of a pearling lugger was carried to the Catholic mission at Garden Point, Melville Island, by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Launch Wreckage In Nelson's Bay
Asquantity of launch timber found floating at Nelson's Bay was taken by Newcastle police today to Patonga…
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A SMALL steering wheel mounted on a 3ft. 2in. by 16in. cedar panel, a hatch cover about 3ft. by 18in., and a small varnished door…
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Constable T. O'Brien examines a small steering wheel, mounted on a cedar panel, which was washed up, with other wreckage,…
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LONDON, May 26. A.A.P.—Police told the Manchester Magistrates to-day that when they locked up a 17-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale Damages Steamer
SYDNEY: The British steamer Inchwells (5100 tons) has arrived at Sydney with her hull leaking and the engine-room damaged by a 10-day battering in the Tasman, in an effort t o get from Wellington to Melbourne. The Inchwells struggled into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lindwall's 6 for 14 Wrecks Notts
NOTTINGHAM, May 30.—Lindwall's six for 14, which wrecked Nottinghamshire's first innings, was his best bowling on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ketch Sails For Australia
LONDON, June 8. A.A.P.—Captain H. V. Hudson, O.B.E., of Kent, who in 1910 commanded the destroyer Success at Plymouth, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steamer's Coal Cargo Albaze
ADELAIDE. — The British steamer Wansford (4815 tons) has been delayed in her race across the Great Australian…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— A Seamen's Union ban on the Greek steamer Chelatros was lifted to-day, when the ship was supplied with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Plane Wreckage Sighted At Sea
SANTA MARIA (Azores), June 16. A.A.P.—A search plane radioed that it had sighted unidentified wreckage, believed to be part of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Launch Wreckage Found
SYDNEY: Narrabeen police believe that wreckage of a launch found on Collaroy Beach today is part of the launch Joyce, which…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Launch wreckage washed up on Collaroy Beach during heavy seas last week does not belong either to the Joyce…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The wreckage of a twin-engined plane Found near Magpie Station, Yarrol, 35 miles from Monto, has been…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—The crashed aircraft found recently near Monto, Queensland, by two stockmen, has been identified as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.Z. Watersiders Refuse To Work Priority Steamer
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday.—Auckland watersiders have refused to work a ship which has been declared a full preference ship…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bandits Wreck Malay Mine
SINGAPORE, July 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.— Communist terrorists to-day seized the colliery township of Batu Arang, 26 miles north-west of Kuala Lumpur, while skilled saboteurs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Survived "Wreck of the Hesperus"
That old favourite, "The Wreck of Hesperus," was among burlesques presented by children of Plattsburg Central School last night. These players of "The Wreck" had a rehearsal yesterday, Left to right: Kathleen Reardon, Berris Quayle, Doreen…
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