Wreckage Of Missing Plane Found
PARIS, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—A rescue party to-day found the wreckage of a twin-engined French military plane missing…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
89 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Drifting Launch Blown Ashore
MELBOURNE, Monday.— After 32 hours adrift in Port Phillip Bay in an open boat, two men and a boy were blown…
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AUCKLAND, January 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The 74ft. Brisbane ketch, Coongoola, arrived in Auckland to-day…
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PORT MORESBY, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—A patrol officer reported to-day that he had found two heaps of human…
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STOCKHOLM, Mon. (A.A.P.).—The 883-ton Swedish steamer Nedjan, with 16 crew on board, was…
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A young man who was washed to sea at Nobbys on Saturday and five others who went to help him were picked up by the pilot steamer Birubi…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A medicine bottle containing a note from three survivors of a supposed shipwreck was found…
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An object 50ft. long has been found in the seabed off the island of Elba, which may be…
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BRISBANE: The 65ft. tourist launch Peekaye left Mackay at midnight in boisterous weather to…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A honeymoon couple were rescued from a wrecked ketch on a reef 68 miles east of Mackay to-day…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Attempts will be made to-morrow to refloat a 36ft. ketch which is aground on a coral reef 68…
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BRISBANE — Ownerskipper of the grounded ketch Quest IV, Frederick Fawcett-Kay (30). of…
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LONDON, Jan. 28. A.A.P. —Wreckage from the R.A.F. Washington bomber which disappeared in a blizzard over the…
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TOKYO, Jan. 29. A.A.P. Reuter.—The Maritime Safety Board said to-day it was feared 37 men from six fishing…
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TROIS RIVIERES (Quebec) Sun., (A.A.P.): The bodies of victims of a bus-lorry smash last night were frozen in the wreckage by water from melting snow rescuers had thrown on flames. It is believed that 15…
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MELBOURNE: Police and ambulance men took more than an hour to release a 20-year-old girl from…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Armed Communist guards had prevented passengers going ashore at the Chinese port of…
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MONTREAL, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—Screaming survivors were pinned in the wreckage when a bus and a lorry…
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Radiant, the Queen, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh, steps from the Royal barge on to the pontoon at Farm Cove, where they were welcomed to Sydney by the Governor-General (Sir William Slim) tn the almost deafening cheers of more than 100,000 spectators lining the foreshores. In the background is Farm Cove and the crowds below the Conservatorium…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A large ketch packed with people watching the Gothic berth at Circular Quay to-day was…
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