Three Die In Shipwreck
OSLO, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Three people were drowned when the steamer Nordstejren hit a rock off north Norway yesterday and sank. Two hundred passengers, who remained calm, took…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
89 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 5
Beach Wreckage May Be Clue To Plane Lost 1952
SYDNEY: A piece of aluminium, found on Thirroul Beach yesterday, may explain the fate of an R.A.A.F. Dakota which disappeared near Cronulla on Oct. 27, 1952…
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The steamer Blue Bell was sailing into Keppel Bay after an uneventful trip from Brisbane. Suddenly the crew was…
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the French four-masted barque Adolphe which foundered on the Oyster Bank on Sept. 30, 1904. The mast on the right belongs to the Regent Murray, wrecked five…
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LONDON, Tues. (O.S.R.)—The Royal Navy rescued 800 day tourists from the Isle of Sheppey (Kent) yesterday, after a Swedish freighter had wrecked the only bridge link with the mainland…
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Albert Cunningham and David Jeebes photographed while they were fitting out their schooner Awatea at Carrington. (See story.)…
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ORANGE: Police have sighted wreckage on a rugged mountain peak near Orange which, they believe, could be the crashed Auster plane of missing grazier Max Hazelton. High up on Mt. Canoblas.,…
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MELBOURNE: Wreckage from the 40ft. shark fishing boat Robert John, missing from Queenscliff, was found on the ocean beach about a quarter of a mile from the heads near Portsea today. But the two Queenscliff fishermen who were aboard are missing, feared drowned…
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LAUNCESTON, Tuesday. —Three men were rescued in heavy seas off Tasmania's north-east coast this morning…
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BRISBANE. — A young aircraftman, who caused £28,000 damage to a Neptune bomber at…
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LONDON, Fri. (AAP) —A Gloster Javelin, Britain's top secret delta - wing twin - jet…
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EDINBURGH (Texas), Wed. (A.A.P.): A man blew himself to pieces today in an explosion that wrecked a floor of the Hidalgo County Courthouse. Police said the man…
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LONDON, Nov. 12. A.A.P. —The world's first glass fibre lifeboat has been built at East Molesey, Surrey. It is 24 feet…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday—Four men injured in an explosion of aqua lung equipment, in the trochus schooner Meina…
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The question of an ex gratia payment to Mr. A. Allen, of West Wallsend, for work done on the removal of part of the wreck of the Maianbar from Nobbys Beach was raised…
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The remains of the Maianbar wreck hove been almost covered by sand and the sea at Nobbys for many years, but as far as Newcastle Council is concerned it refused to stay out of…
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LONDON, Nov. 28. A.A.P.—Two ships were wrecked and seven men are feared dead in violent storms which cut a path of destruction through southern England at the…
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SCOTTISH DELIGHT.—Pipers Bill Kerr (left) and George Cowan pipe a welcome to a haggis, carried by Qantas hostess Judy Gilkes. The haggis wa[?]flown from Stirling, Scotland, for a St. Andrew's dinner at the Sydney Town Hall tonight…
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LONDON, Dec 1. A.A.P.—SIXTEEN survivors of the P. and O. cargo ship Tresillian, which sank 44 miles off Cork yesterday, have been rescued…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.— A trail of wreckage was left between Echuca and Kyabram last night when a dynamiter wrecked sheds, signposts and letter boxes. Damage estimated at more…
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