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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea
126 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 7
Flying Safety officials from R.A.A.F. Headquarters at Melbourne will inspect the wreckage of the Vampire Jet aircraft which crashed in the Wallaroo State Forest, 10 miles from Raymond Terrace, yesterday afternoon. They will gather evidence for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain F. L. Wyatt, who retired recently from the B.H.P. "iron ship" service, is one of few seamen who have walked 300 miles back from a shipwreck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The British freighter, Empire Gladstone (7000 tons) is in an almost hopeless position on the rockr of lola Point, five miles south of Merimbula, where she grounded on Tuesday night. Surveys have revealed that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two divers to-day made a three-hour inspection of the hull of the 7090-ton ship Empire Gladstone, which ran…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—St. George district was blacked out and thousands of city-bound train travellers were delayed when an explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life on a tramp steamer, even as a paying guest, from Calcutta to Melbourne, was not very comfortable, according to Mrs. F. G. Massmann. THE weather was rough, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Twenty-nine crew members of the wrecked freighter Empire Gladstone abandoned ship at 5.30 this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY: One of the lifeboats from the wrecked freighter Empire Gladstone was washed ashore at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Sept. 13. A.A.P.—North Korea has accused the United States of having destroyed most of its industry by bombing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: Vandals, believed to have been children, have caused serious damage at the Mona Vale Life Saving Clubhouse. Lifesavers who have spent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The master of the freighter Empire Gladstone told a Marine Court of Inquiry today that he did not see Haystack Rock off Merimbula, until a "very short time" before the vessel struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The master of the wrecked freighter Empire Gladstone (Captain John Lennie) and the First Mate (George Herbert Roscoe) were charged in the Court of Marine Inquiry today with misconduct. The charges were in the form…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The captain (John Lenie) and first mate (George Herbert Roscoe) of the S.S. Empire Gladstone were to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AUCKLAND, Oct. 1. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Soldiers and civilians raided the Auckland office of the Communist Party this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: An hour after police had restrained a man who was wreck a house at Bankstown early today the fire brigade was called to fight a in the premises. The fire. believed to have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDEN.—Trapped for almost a day aboard the wrecked 7000-ton freighter Empire Gladstone, because of roaring seas, a salvage crew was rescued at dawn today. The Empire Gladstone is aground on a reef known as…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Mr. Claude C. Johnson, an identity of the South Maitland coalfields, has a cabin compass, salvaged from the wreck of the Dunbar. It is 100 years old, and in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle City Council was doing its best to remove the remainder of the Maianbar wreck from Nobbys Beach, the City…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—Shocking corruption and incompetence on Chiang Kai-shek lines had brought the Philippines to near-bankruptcy,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.): If Lang son, frontier fortress in Indo-China, falls to the Vietminh Reds in the next 24 hours, it may bring down the French Government. At a four-hour Cabinet meet-…
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