Heavy Seas Wreck Catalina At Lord Howe
SYDNEY: A Oantas Catalina flying boat (VH-EAX) was wrecked by heavy seas at Lord Howe Island last night…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
119 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 6
Heavy Seas Wreck Flying-Boat
SYDNEY, Friday.—Heavy seas wrecked a Qantas Catalina at Lord Howe Island last night. No one was on board when the…
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The interior of Maitland's historic, 91-year-old St. Paul's Church of England has been wrecked by the flood. FLOOD WATERS raging inside…
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HONGKONG, July 7. A.A.P.-Reuter. —The British river steamer, Fatshan, has been, detained in Canton following an alleged attack on…
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GOSFORD, Friday. — Mr. I. Chapman, of Bonnyrigg, Liverpool, will begin soon a steamer cargo service between Sydney and Gosford,…
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DARWIN, Friday.—After negotiating over three years, C. E. Atkinson, Darwin diver, has been granted permission by the Minister…
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Newcastle Trades Hall Council has promised support to the contractor whom Newcastle Council has refused to pay for his efforts to shift the Maianbar wreck at Nobbys Beach…
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The Trades Hall Council wrote to Newcastle Council Finance Committee last night asking that the Council's refusal to pay the…
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KIEL, July 18. A.A.P.—The wreck of the former German steamer New York has been bought for scrap by the British Ministry of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Swims Ashore, Mate Feared Lost
SYDNEY, Monday.—Reginald Taylor, 23, of Neutral Bay, swam ashore when his 22ft. launch capsized in heavy seas two miles off…
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Sailing home to England from Singapore in 1920. Mr. Colin D. McLachlan, naval architect and inventor of gravity davits to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer Beats N.Z. Pickets
AUCKLAND, August 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—An attempt by striking waterside pickets to prevent the Wairimu from sailing for Calcutta…
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The inhabitants of the small island of Rodriguez, 900 miles east of Madagascar, are becoming accustomed to their island being the terminal of strange events of the sea…
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WINNIPEG, Wed. (A.A.P.).—A search plane today found the wreckage of a two-engined R.C.A.F. transport reported missing in northern Manitoba with 21 persons aboard. The transport, which had crashed and burned 250 miles…
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KEMPSEY: Three officers and the crew of five New Hebridean natives, swam ashore when the 45ft., £10,000 diesel launch Leleo was driven on to Crescent Head Beach in a storm, early today. All eight are safe and…
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A cyclone which struck the coast north of Kempsey yesterday—Washed ashore eight launches and two yachts, valued at £35,000, in Coff's Harbour…
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With a final shudder the ship went down. I was left clinging to a piece of wood which I hoped would carry me safe to the shore…
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Louis Warburton, 68, was found in the water clinging to the side of the wrecked Adolphe at Stockton breakwater yesterday morning. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowned Man's Coat Washed Ashore
GOSFORD, Monday. — A coat in which was a wristlet watch with the initials "F.C.J." inscribed, was washed up on McMaster's Beach,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seek Compensation on Nobbys Wreck
Mr. Allen, contractor for the removal of the wreck of the Malanbar from Nobbys Beach, is to appeal to Newcastle City Council…
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