Wreckage Of Plane Sighted
NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.): Wreckage, believed to be that of an Air Force transport plane missing with 28 passengers aboard, was sighted today…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
93 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Doctors' 4 Hours In Lifeboat
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): One nurse and three doctors dashed 50 miles in an open lifeboat in thick fog…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A pleasure launch valued at £850 was wrecked and a ketch was disabled in heavy…
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PARIS, Wed. (O.S.R.)—A Paris industrialist who gave his two teenage daughters a surprise party in his luxurious flat got the surprise of his life when he came home and…
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SINGAPORE, Tuesday. (A.A.P.-Reuter). — Efforts were being made last night to contact the Hongkong…
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LONDON, Fri. (A. A.P).—Ten of the crew of 36 on the Greek steamer Taxiarchis scrambled into three fishing boats and came ashore at Redear (Yirkshire) yesterday, after spending three nights…
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NEW YORK, Thurs. (O.S.R.)—From the wreck-strewn seabottom off America's coast, salvage crews will soon start trying to rescue ships which the Germans sank to stop them reaching the Russians…
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The victims were Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Heancy, of Bar Beach, and Mr. L. C. Fleming, of New Lambton, the…
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The interstate ship Beatries N was aground in mud in the B.H.P. swinging channel for 35 minutes yesterday morning…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—A 30-ft. lifeboat which can be dropped from a plane and then guided by radio…
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ISMAILIA, Feb. 13. A.A.P. —The wreckage of a British Mosquito photo reconnaissance aircraft, which crashed last…
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Leslie Colin Hilton, dealer, of Beaumont-street, Islington, was charged in Newcastle Court yesterday with having…
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The United States steamer Michael J. Goulandris ran aground in the North Harbour leads, off the State Dockyard,…
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Newcastle Shiplovers' Society, which last night held its second meeting at the Flying Angel Mission. Wickham,…
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In a reserved decision at Newcastle Court yesterday. Mr. T. H. D. See, S.M., directed a warrant to issue to…
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NEW YORK, March 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The U.S. Air Force is experimenting with a lifeboat that "thinks" for itself. It is 30 feet long, weights 3500lb, and can hold 15…
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NEW YORK, March 23. A.A.P.—A death toll of 206 persons was announced last night as a result of tornadoes and flood that swept six States at the…
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SYDNEY: Fire and explosions today wrecked a four-storey chemical laboratory owned by Andrews and Co., at the comer of Kent and Margaret-sts., City…
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SINGAPORE, March 30. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Work has started on salvaging the wreck of the Canadian Pacific liner…
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OSLO, April 15, A.A.P.— An American plane searching for five Norwegian seal-catching ships, which disappeared…
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