Blast Wrecks U.S. City: Kills 1,000 New York
An unofficial report places the deathroll in a series of explosions which almost wrecked Texas City as "around 1200". The disaster, which followed an explosion in a ship…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
3 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers
R.a.f. Navy Clearing 500 Wrecks
Eighteen trawlers with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is a menace to shipping around the sea…
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PITTSBURGH, Wednesday.—Twenty seven persons were killed when the five decked oil-burning excursion steamer Island Queen—claimed to be the largest vessel of its kind in the United States—burned and sank…
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