Ketch Ashore In Islands
SYDNEY, Monday. — The 30ft. ketch Peer Gynt has run aground in New Guinea. The ketch, with an engaged…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
106 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 6
Adamstown Smash Wreckage
ADAMSTOWN SMASH.—This semi-trailer was involved in a sensational smash at Adamstown late on Saturday afternoon. With a load of six fully equipped cars, the semi-trailer is believed to have got out of control coming down Charles-town Hill. Police say that the driver, Eric Miller, 51, of Goodwood (S.A.), who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wreckers Work To Demolish 'Frisco Slums
SAN FRANCISCO: House wreckers are demolishing slums in San Francisco; 120 residential buildings, branded by health inspectors as unfit for human habitation…
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Late this afternoon it is expected that a great mass of tangled steel from the fallen B.K.P. No. 2 ore-bridge crane will have been cleared from the deck of the freighter Garryvale and raised from the harbor bed…
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LONDON, August 30. A.A.P.—Bundles of banknotes and boxes of bullion have been salvaged from the wreck of the Flying Enterprise…
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TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.—Three men from a 33ft. sloop wrecked on Bougainville Reef will be rescued this morning…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (A.A.P.). — Actress Lola Montez told police today that her penthouse flat…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 11. A.A.P.—Gas from a broken main exploded and ripped up a five-block-long section of a…
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21. A.A.P.—The world's largest plane, the Howard Hughes flying boat, Hercules, sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tornado Wrecks French Village
PARIS, Sept. 24. A.A.P.— A tornado which cut a swath through the Breton village of Guernez, near Quimperle, last…
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SYDNEY: Rand wick Council employees late to-day will examine the remainder of the wreck of…
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SYDNEY.—Members of the newly-formed Underwater Explorers' Club will examine their first wreck…
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PORT VILA, Wed. (AAP)—Wooden wreckage, found at Erromanga, 30 miles south of Port Vila, is…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—An explosion wrecked a shop and a cafe at Petersham last night. The explosion, in Goodlands…
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There is probably no part of the Australian coast more dangerous to approach in an easterly or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child Wreckers "Hold Up Houses"
LONDON. — Builders working on Canvey Island, Essex, say c the damage done by children to houses…
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Newcastle Lifeboat service and Rocket Brigade were two of the most important of this important organisation in…
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THIS is the story, in part, of the shipping disasters that have occurred…
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PREVIOUS CHAPTER: In 1813 a start was made on linking Nobbys island with the Newcastle mainland and when Governor Macquane visited Newcastle on July 28, 1818, one of his main acts was to lay the foundation stone of the new breakwater. The commandant was Captain James Wallis…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Convicts Seize Schooner
This is a bit of the oldtime history of the water-front. The seizure of the 21-ton schooner Speedwell…
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