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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Stolen Ketch Seen Off W.a. Coast

Northern Star · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 5

PERTH, Sunday. — Valued at £2000, a 48 feet ketch stolen on Friday night from Fremantle, was spotted yesterday by a plane 40…

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Stolen Ketch Found

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 May 1946 · page 1

PERTH, Tuesday. — A plane searching for the stolen ketch found it beached 60 miles north of Perth today. One man was on…

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Fire Causes £1000 Damage to Steamer

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Damage of more than £1000 was caused by a fire which mysteriously broKe out in the boiler room of the steamer…

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Launch Wrecked at Byron Bay

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 1

BYRON BAY, Sunday: When a heavy sea came up suddenly at Byron Bay on Friday night, Messrs Feross's fishing launch,…

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Launch Wrecked In Heavy Sea At Byron Bay

Northern Star · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 4

BYRON BAY, Sunday.—When [?] heavy sea came up suddenly in Byron Bay on Friday night, Messrs. Feros and Feros' fishing launch Hermes…

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Launch Wrecked In Heavy Sea At Byron Bay

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 2

BYRON BAY, Sunday.--When a heavy sea came up suddenly in Byron Bay on Friday night, Messrs. Feros and Feros' fishing launch Hermes…

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Schooner Missing

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Monday (AAP).—When dense fog closed down on the south-west coast this afternoon there was no sign of Edward…

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Aust. Bound Schooner In Difficulties

Northern Star · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—The schooner Volant is reported to be in difficulties three miles off the Fishguard, where it is…

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Aust. Bound Schooner Safe

Northern Star · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (AAP).—The ketch. Volant, which had a rough trip from Dublin, is expected to remain in Bideford, Devon, over…

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Loaded Schooner Leaking Badly

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday. — The four-masted auxiliary schooner Kermandie loaded with 200,000 feet of Tasmanian hardwood is…

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14 Skeletons Near Wreckage of Plane

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday: The wreckage found in the Baham Mountains, southern Dutch New Guinea, last week is believed to…

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Wreck of S.s. Lismore

Northern Star · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 6

Sir,—"Scribe's" reference, in his "North East Corner" column in your issue of June 11, page 9, to the wreck of "S.S. Lismore," lying in…

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Schooner Made First Call in 1894

Northern Star · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 1

THE AUXILITARY schooner, Huia (251 tons), which arrived at Newcastle yesterday morning with a cargo of…

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Mines Ashore Off North Q'1d. Coast

Tweed Daily · Monday 8 July 1946 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sunday: Mines, believed to be high explosive contacts, are adrift in snipping lanes off the north-castern…

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British Club Wrecked in Italy

Northern Star · Tuesday 9 July 1946 · page 5

ROME, Monday (AAP).—In another protest demonstration against the decision of the Foreign Ministers in Paris, hundreds…

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Famous Ballina Wrecks

Northern Star · Saturday 13 July 1946 · page 8

AS a native of Lismore, [?] was interested to have my memory brought back by Mr. W. Mal[?]ett, recently, to the early method of shipping and delivering goods by water to settlers living on the banks of the Richmond below Lismore…

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North East Corner Ashore

Northern Star · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 4

A SHORE after 38 years at sea, during which he survived two major disasters, is Frank Robert Newman, who is managing the…

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Typhoon at Hong Kong Wrecks Ships

Tweed Daily · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 1

HONG KONG. Friday: A typhoon raged for three hours and moved southwest after wrecking six ships, destroying…

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Alleged Attempt to Wreck Lives of 2 Men

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Monday.—It was alleged in the police court to-day that a woman had deliberately attempted to wreck the lives of two men…

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Crowd Wrecks Race Track

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). —Angered by the disqualification of a greyhound which finished second in a race at Harringay track, the…

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