Club Asks For Removal Of Nobbys Wreck
The Beaches Liaison Committee decided last night to refer to the City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) "the necessity of removing the remains…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950
126 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 7
Plane Wreckage Found
BRISBANE, Sunday—The burnt out wreckage of a plane was found near Croydon, about 250 miles south-west of Cairns last Thursday,…
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CAIRNS, Tuesday.—A police constable sifting the wreckage of a burnt-out aircraft found last Thursday 14 miles south of Croydon…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The master of the wrecked freighter Marietta Dal (Captain Brighty) left the ship at 9.20 to-night after the…
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LIMA (Peru), May 22. A.A.P.—Fifty people were killed and 178 injured in a violent earthquake at Cuzco, 340 miles south-east of…
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CUZCO (Peru). Mon. (A.A.P.).—Forty bodies have been found In the wreckage of the earthquake which shattered hundreds of buildings in this ancient Inca capital yesterday. Authorities fear that the death-roll will be considerably…
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AUCKLAND, May 26. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The ketch Kalua, skippered by Mr. Mark Anthony, arrived in Auckland to-day from…
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FRANKFURT, Thurs. (O.S.R.): A campaign which threatens fresh trouble for the Government, led by Dr. Konrad Adenauer, is developing behind the legless and sightless…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A Brisbane syndicate will begin salvage operations to-morrow on the wrecked freighter Marietta Dal on Smith…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—About £10,000 worth of cargo has been salvaged from the wrecked freighter Marietta Dal (7326 tons)…
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BRISBANE. — The first lighter of salvaged cargo from the wrecked Marietta Dal arrived in Brisbane today…
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BRISBANE: Working under extremely difficult conditions. 21 young unseasoned salvage-workers aboard the Marietta…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—An explosion wrecked the three-storied Town Hall Hotel and damaged 18 other buildings in the heart of the city this afternoon…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Rising seas forced the 22-man salvage crew to leave the wrecked Marietta Dal by lifeboat at 3 p.m. to-day…
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PERTH, Sunday.—The £20,000 whaling ship Norwegian Bay, wrecked on a reef near Wedge Island, 90 miles north-west of Perth,…
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Mr. J. N. Greenland (centre), deputy chairman and managing director of the Union S.S. Co., and Mr. C. B. V. Wheeler (at right), Sydney manager, were met this morning at Newcastle Railway Station by Mr. P. Trevalla (left), branch manager of…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Experts are investigating a theory that a big charge of high explosive and not gas caused yesterday's mystery…
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SYDNEY. — The steamer Fiona, which arrived at Sydney today from Townsville, was battered and damaged by a…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—E: C. Tedner, chief of the Explosives Department, was injured by falling masonry when part of the wrecked…
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Police inspect the wreckage of the A.N.A. Skymaster Amana which crashed 46 miles east of Perth on Monday night…
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