Battered Steamer Towed To Port
BREST, Oct. 28. A.A.P.—After a 24-hour battle with mountainous seas, the British tug Turmoil, towed the sinking, storm-battered Belgian…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
119 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 6
55 Believed Dead In Airliner Wreck: Hit By Fighter Over River
WASHINGTON, Wed (A.A.P): Fifty-five persons are believed to have been killed here in one of the worst disasters in U.S. Civil Aviation history. Hundreds of horrified spectators saw an airliner and a fighter…
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WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Divers searching the waters of the Potomac River today recovered more bodies of victims of the greatest commercial aviation tragedy in the history of the United States…
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A dredge to be launched at the State Dockyard, Newcastle, on Saturday, November 12, would be mainly used in the maintenance of…
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SYDNEY. - With serious steering gear trouble- the 797ton French steamer Neo Hebridais early today returned to…
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A V.J. dinghy scraped the side of the steamer Dumosa on Newcastle Harbour yesterday. The dinghy, No Mistake,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Four men in a 16ft. dinghy jumped into Sydney Harbour to-day when they thought a steamer would hit their…
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HONGKONG, Nov. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A Chinese Nationalist warship at the mouth of the Yangtsc has intercepted the British steamer, Tsinan, en route to Hongkong with a cargo from Communist-held…
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SYDNEY: The 400-ton Paterson, one of the oldest wooden steamers on the New South Wales coast, arrived at Sydney today after a round voyage to Darwin, which nautical circles declared she could not…
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The City Solicitors advised Newcastle Council Finance Committee last night that they could see no foundation for any "ex gratia"…
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PARIS, Mon. (A.A.P.).—The body of the Frenchman, Marcel Petit, who was stranded on a buoy in Cherbourg Bay when…
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BOGOTA (Colombia), Sun. (A.A.P.).—The burned wreckage of a missing Colombian DC-3 airliner was sighted today in…
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Newcastle City Council Finance Committee will recommend that no ex gratia payment be made to Mr. A. Allen to defray losses incurred…
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Members of the Cook's Hill Surf Club so enjoyed caring for the children of the King Edward Home last Christmas that it has now become an annual event. It will be the second time…
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MONTREAL, Dec. 2. A.A.P.—Raging flood water yesterday swept away a 100ft. emergency bridge erected across Capilano River, just…
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EDEN: The motorship Timaru Star made an 18 knots dash into Eden last night to land a badly…
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HENGELO (Holland), Dec. 22. A.A.P.—Two 13-year-old schoolboys, well aware that no schools can be run without blackboards,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.âThree young New Zealanders stowed away in the Norwegian motor-ship Kronviken on September 5, but…
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A Grimsby shipyard is converting a four-masted Danish schooner to a shark fishing factory ship. The ship is being converted for…
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