Identification Of Body In Ketch
BRISBANE, Monday.—A man whose mutilated body was found in a drifting ketch in the Fitzroy River yesterday was identified…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951
83 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
Airmen To Rescue Of Ketch
Drifting before a strong southerly wind under jury rigged sail, a 38ft. ketch, its engine out of action, was picked up by an…
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Although he had to run before a southerly from Lion Island, at the entrance to the Hawkesbury River, under bare poles in his 29ft. ketch Pagan after his engine broke down, Mr. R. Jones, of Cronulla, was soaked but otherwise none the worse for his experience when he was towed into…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The New Zealand troopship Wahine, which ran on to a reef off Masela Island in the Arafura Sea on…
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SYDNEY. â The coastal steamer Allenwood (398 tons), with a crew of 16 men, ran ashore in fog before dawn today between Catherine Hill Bay and…
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MEXICO CITY, September 16. A.A.P.—Warships brought relief supplies yesterday to Mexico's "Devil's Island," where nearly 2000…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The owners of the coastal steamer Allenwood have abandoned efforts to salvage her, and will sell her as she lies…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The bribery trial of 18 past and present New York policemen collapsed today in a slanging match between the judge and a bookmaker, Harry Gross, who refused to give evidence despite the judge's angry threat that he "would rot in gaol…
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ROCHESTER (New York), Fri. (A.A.P.). — At least five were killed and 14 injured when a series of gas explosions wrecked 28 homes today. The chain of explosions…
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ROME, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Two were killed and 30 seriously injured when an explosion wrecked a Communist Party building…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A man had a bus shelter flattened on top of him at Queanbeyan to-day by a bus which got out of control…
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Most of the 175,000 migrants who came to Australia last year are "dug in" and are tackling the problems of living with high hopes for the future. But the traffic of migrants is…
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Newcastle Council Works Committee last night endorsed a recommendation of the Beaches Liaison Committee that the City Engineer…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 71-year-old man was found dead in the passage-way of his weatherboard cottage in Gannon-street, Tempe,…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.). —The Admiralty considers it impossible to salvage the submarine Affray, lost in…
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AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. A.A.P. — Reuter. — The 38-feet yacht Auckland Rangi parted her moorings and ran ashore…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The 60ft. Norwegian ketch Ho Ho, reported to be missing in a passage from Brisbane to…
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The staysail schooner Irene narrowly escaped serious damage late last night in…
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Following the collapse a few days ago of Captain A. Sinclair of the new cargo passenger ship Kabbarli, a…
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RANGOON, Dec. 21. A.A.P.—Burmese Communists blew up four bridges to-day, paralysing railway traffic…
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