Steamer Drifting
CAPE TOWN, July 21. A.A.P.—The steamer Earlham Victory, with 62 on board, wirelessed that she is drifting helplessly in the South…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
122 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7
Darwin Wreck May Be Zealandia
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Naval headquarters to-day received a report from Darwin that the wreck found in Darwin Harbour a…
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LONDON, Aug. 4.—Professor Kwans Nkrumah, 30, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Divinity, journalist, ship's steward, motor…
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PARIS. Sat. (A.A.P.). — A French Navy communique says that floating wreckage believed to be from the missing…
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LONDON, Aug. 9 A.A.P.—Two men arrived at Falmouth yesterday in a ship's converted lifeboat after a stormy 71-day…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Moderate trade unionists were up against a "thin-lipped gang of trained, professional wreckers," the Federal President of the Liberal Party (Mr. R. G. Casey) said at the annual…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The headless and armless body of a man was washed ashore at Albert Park this morning, about 250yd. from…
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Coming down the harbour last night, the B.H.P. steamer Iron Master drifted in a current and bumped the pilot vessel Birubi…
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MIAMI, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Between 46 and 50 people and a circus of lions, tigers and other animals are believed drowned,…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A Rockhampton fisherman to-day rescued an American and his Australian wife who had been stranded for…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Associate Editor of the "Catholic Weekly" (Mr. Brian Doyle) said to-day his challenge to the…
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SYDNEY: The mission motorship Devare (35 tons) bound from Sydney to Rabaul with a crew of eight aboard,…
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EDMONTON (Canada), Sept. 23. A.A.P.—The wreckage of an aircraft, carrying 11 people, £75,000 in currency and 4001b in…
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EDMONTON (Canada), Sept. 26. A.A.P.—A search party reported yesterday that it had failed to find currency and gold bullion worth…
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PARIS, Sept. 27. A.A.P.—The coming East-West wrangle over Berlin in the Security Council may provide the gunpowder that will blow up the world organisation for keeping the…
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COPENHAGEN, Thursday (A.A.P.).—The British steamer Takoradian (5452 tons) sank in shallow water, in Copenhagen…
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MOREE, Wednesday.—A Tiger Moth plane crashed and was wrecked, but the pilot escaped with minor injuries near Gravesend…
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PERTH, Thursday.—Candles buried near the remains of a wreck in the sandhills about 12 miles from Nordalup, on the south…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Aircraft wreckage was found in the sea this morning by fishermen off Deal Island, near the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Bernard Frederick Hawker, 26, a Welsh migrant, was robbed within an hour of having landed in Sydney from…
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