'Apple' Freighter Runs Ashore
HOBART, Thursday.—The interstate freighter Adelong (3577 tons) ran ashore six miles from Pot Cygnet, in the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
93 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 5
Bomber Wrecks Houses
LONDON, July 2. A.A.P. — A British dive-bomber plunged, Haming, into 600…
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LONDON, July 11. A.A.P.—A 20-mile-an-hour hour torrent of water from a burst main poured through London's East End early to-day…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday. (A.A.P.)—A new rubber lifeboat that inflates in 30 seconds and provides…
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"Survivors" clamber on to a new model rubber lifeboat less than a minute after it was dropped from the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter off Brooklyn, New York, in a recent test. The collapsible lifeboat inflates in 30 seconds after hitting the water…
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After examining their 26ft. ketch which went on the rocks near Ocean Baths last night, the owners, Eric Berg (38), of Darwin, and Steve Jonsson (37), of Melbourne, estimate…
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A sea trip to Darwin ended on the rocks near the Ocean Baths at Newcastle last night when the navigator of the ketch, The Ghost, mistook seaboard fights for the entrance to the harbor. The ketch…
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Two Swedes who mistook ocean front lights for harbour lights drove their 26ft. auxiliary ketch on to submerged rocks just north of Newcastle Ocean Baths last night. The men had been…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eight sailors swam ashore in boiling seas when a 44ft. naval launch was washed on to rocks at…
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SYDNEY: A fireball struck a brickworks at Brookvale during heavy rain…
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The 31ft. trawler, Moona, was smashed to pieces in about 40 minutes after it had drifted on to North Stockton Beach yesterday afternoon…
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BRISBANE. — The 30ft. ketch Jason, with a family of six aboard, has been towed into Gladstone after having been adrift for several…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—The disabled ketch Jason has been towed into Gladstone by a rescue launch…
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ST. JOHN'S (Newfoundland), Aug. 26. A.A.P.—The crew of a schooner which burnt and sank yesterday were…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Two men, aged 41 and 39, were arrested by armed naval guards last night and charged…
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GIBRALTAR, Monday (A.A.P.).—A British corvette sent an armed boarding party on to the…
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MELBOURNE—The auxiliary ketch Argonaut II., with a crew of nine men aboard, is in distress in a…
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The City Engineer (Mr. Paddeley) was asked by Newcastle City Council last night to report on what action could…
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There were groans from some Newcastle aldermen last night when Aid. Quinlan raised the…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11. A.A.P.—The United States Air Force plans to unveil a new radio-controlled lifeboat at Mobile (Alabama) to-day with a demonstration showing how survivors call be rescued from the sea by a pilot flying high above them…
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