Explosion Wrecks Line Depot
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An explosion wrecked a P.M.G. line depot near the outskirts of Stawell to-day…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
106 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 6
Oil Slick May Mark Wreck
VANCOUVER, Jan. 1. A.A.P.—An oil slick, fed from the tanks of the missing tug Petrel 420 feet below the…
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SYDNEY: Mr. P. S. Bell, of Lindfield, announces that he has bought for £10,000 the 39-year-old…
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SEATTLE. Mon. (A.A.P.).—The wreckage of a U.S. air force troop transport, missing since Wednesday…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A ship wrecked many years ago is fouling the British motor ship, Kelvinbank (7260 tons),…
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SYDNEY: The British motorship Kelvin bank (7269 tons) may become a total wreck on a coral reef…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The Career women were the main cause of divorce and child delinquency, Dr. Ida Bailey…
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LONDON. Feb. 3. A.A.P. Divers will make tests to-day to see whether it is possible to locate and examine the…
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The gospel of Sexagesima and the lessons of the past two Sundays were variations on the theme that God's good…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.) —A lifeboat sent out from Fraserburgh, East Scotland, yesterday capsized in…
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Five members from the steamer Kelvinbank, wrecked at Ocean Island last month, arrived in Newcastle yesterday on the freighter Tynebank. No lives or personal…
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NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): Bodies floated to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico today from a National Airlines D.C.6 airliner, which plunged into the sea in a 100 m.p.h. hurricane. The rescue cutter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Eloping Couple Stole Ketch, Court Told
SYDNEY: An 18-year-old Sydney girl and a 19-year-old A.W.L, Victorian soldier had planned to elope north on five gallons of petrol to hunt for crocodiles, it was stated in Manly Court today…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—Twenty-two persons were injured yesterday when 200lb of dynamite exploded…
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"We are not appealing to the council and people of Newcastle for a suitable site to house the last of the Newcastle lifeboats, the Victoria, merely because it is a boat, but because the heroic work of the lifeboat men of this city deserves to be remembered and…
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SYDNEY.—Donald Royden McDowell, 19, Pamela Anne Moody, 18, and Owen Lawrence Gill, 28, were all…
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Newcastle City Council last night defeated a move by Ald. McGuirk to re-open a matter that has come before the council regularly for 10 years and has been the subject of 15 special reports…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Four coloured South African boxers restricted by immigration officials from leaving the…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—The wreck of a plane was sighted in the jungle about 20 miles from Townsville by a T.T.A…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. —R.A.A.F. Headquarters in Melbourne said to-day that the aircraft wreckage sighted in…
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