Wrecked R.a.f. Plane Found
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—A wrecked R.A.F. plane has been discovered on lonely hills on the Isle of Man. It had been missing since…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
83 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 5
Ships Ashore in Storm
LONDON, Monday: A storm drove two ships and half a ship ashore and caused the evacuation of 300…
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NAGADOCHES (Texas), Monday (AAP). — Twenty-nine deaths, 106 admitted to hospital, 740 families homeless and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Salvage Of Explosives On Wreck Delayed Byron Bay Danger Fears
Although wrecked with 80 to 100 tons of explosives on board at Byron Bay on June 10 last year, an American services' vessel, Tassie 3, is still at the smashed jetty. Nothing has yet been done to salvage…
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An engine breakdown on the tug Tancred in Brisbane has caused a further delay in official moves for the salvage of…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Police and R.A.A.F. experts will travel on horseback to Barrington Tops, 47 miles from Scone, to-morrow, to,…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The Air Board has received a detailed report from the party which found wreckage near a…
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KETCHIKAN (Alaska), Wednesday: Many hours' desperate struggle in an icy gale resulted in the removal of 281 so far…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). —A report from Kodiak Naval District Headquarters states that 139 persons have been removed from…
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Part of the wreckage of the Ballina Lighthouse and Lismore Surf Club's surf boat, "Captain Rous," has been washed up at…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: The three occupants of the RAAF Norseman plane which crashed in wild country in Cape York…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communism May Wreck Postwar Plans
PERTH, Wednesday. — Small numbers of workers who believed in Communism might wreck the Government's postwar plans for…
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LONDON, Monday: It is feared that 102 passengers were drowned yesterday when a river steamer from Hamburg bound…
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LONDON, Monday: Nine women and 45 men, after huddling in the teeth of a gale while their ship, the Byron Darnton,…
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This picture was taken aboard the s.s. Korringa (3292 tons) by Engineer I. T. Toll, as the vessel battled with heavy seas en route from Fremantle to Newcastle last week. Passing through tn& Australian Bight, heavy waves rolled across the forward deck…
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KURE, Monday: The bodies of two Australian fighter pilots have been found among the wreckage of their Mustangs on the southern shores of Shilsoku, and an intensive search by aircraft, land parties and naval…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →5,000 Homeless in Hawaii 60 Bodies Recovered From Wreckage Scenes of Desolation
HONOLULU, Wednesday (AAP). — Rescue workers digging through the wreckage of the sea battered city of Hillo have so far recovered 60 bodies. Tearful families spent the day wandering through the devastated area searching for relations and friends…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A police official said that though he had watched hundreds of poker machines being wrecked, he had never seen one fixed so that a player could not win the "pot."…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—Chief officer John Newcombe will take the ketch in which he plans to sail to Australia to sea for the first time when he sails from Lymington, Hampshire, to Southampton tomorrow for…
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PERTH, Sunday: In pursuit of a 48foot ketch, stolen from the north wharf at Fremantle late on Friday night, the owners, two…
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