Gale Wrecks Launches in Sydney Harbor
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was done, principally to small craft anchored in the harbor, by…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1942
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24 Drowned When Launch Foundered
MIDLAND (Ontario), Tuesday: A picnic to celebrate the completion of a war contract at a Mindland [?]dry ended tragically when a…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—The crew bailed out and landed safely from a British 'plane in difficulties over England last night, but…
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A steamer of more than 5000 tons was severely damaged by fire in an Australian port yesterday and though flames wore fought…
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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Thursday. —When a Flying Fortress came into a New Guinea airfield this afternoon with half its port elevator torn off, one of the crew who stepped out with a heavy…
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PRETORIA. Friday (AAP).—A Greek steamer, which was putting out to sea, fired three shots at a submarine which torpedoed and…
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NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).—A United States General swam half a mile to shore after a trawler in which he was travelling was sunk…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — News reached Sydney to-day that the Union company's cargo steamer Kaiwarra, of 3051 tons, had gone…
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A 17-year-okl Sydney girl, Helen June Toomey, jumped 30ft. into the Tweed River from the town bridge at Murwillumbah…
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