Men Fell 50ft. In Lifeboat
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A lifeboat containing two men crashed 50 feet down the side of the liner Asturias into the water to-day…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
122 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 7
Ketch Due Today After World Trip
SYDNEY: The wife of Sydney artist Jack Earl mounted a telescope at her Mosman home today to watch for his 44ft…
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LONDON, Dec. 3. A.A.P.— Eleven Grimsby fishermen died from exhaustion and cold while waiting in a blinding blizzard for…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The pilot ship Captain Cook to-day rescued a launch which was drifting towards rocks at South Head…
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WARDIN, Sunday—A MacRobertson Miller Aviation Company Avro Anson, chartered to search for a pearling lugger missing since…
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DARWIN, Mon. (O.S.R.): The crew of 10 is believed to have been drowned when the pearling lugger La Grange was wrecked on a Melville Island reef in a cyclone last Tuesday…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The 44ft. ketch Kathleen, expected in Sydney yesterday, had not arrived to-night…
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DARWIN, Monday.—The Northern Territory Administration patrol ship Kuru left Darwin at 1.30 p.m. to-day for Soldier's Point,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Finishes 33,000-Mile World Cruise
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The 44ft ketch Kathleen entered the Heads at 3.45 p.m. to-day and completed a 33,000-mile world…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—A woman and three children were forced to leave a partly wrecked home and face a fierce storm which swept…
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Five R.A.A.F. Seagull plant, were sold for scrap, for a total of £29/10/1, at Rathmines flying-boat base yesterday. They were the last five planes…
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The Lord Mayor (Aid. Quintan) will recommend to Greater Newcastle Council that the remaining sections of the hulk of the wrecked Maianbar should be removed from Nobbys Beach with the use of council equipment and workmen…
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With Christmas approaching, companies are having trouble in finding crews to man Australian ships. At present the departure of three ships in Newcastle is be-…
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It may not be the deliberate purpose of the Road Transport Department to reduce its losses at the expense of local…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Shipping officials said to-day there would be shipping delays in Sydney and Newcastle because seamen and…
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Storm damage at Scone yesterday. From the top.—The roof of Mr. Kennedy's house, Guernsey-street, turned a somersauit…
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HONGKONG, Dec. 22. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Thirty-one badly mangled bodies have been recovered from the wreck of a China National…
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ATHENS, Dec. 22. A.A.P.—The wreck of a Czechoslovak airliner, with 19 passengers and five crew, missing since December 21,…
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SYDNEY: The auxiliary mission schooner, John Williams (200 tons) was wrecked on a coral reef at Savaii Island in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The auxiliary schooner, John Williams V., 200 tons, was wrecked on a coral reef in the Samoan group this…
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