Three Dead in Ketch That Disappeared
SYDNEY, Friday: With three Australian members of the crew dead and the fourth in the last stages of exhaustion, the 15-ton auxiliary ketch Nova, which vanished from the New…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946
83 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 5
District Men Die In Sea Horror One Survives Wreck of Fishing Ketch
SYDNEY, Friday.—Nearly five months after she had disappeared from the N.S.W. coast, the 45 feet ketch Nova with the only surviving member of the crew, was found wrecked on the Isle of Pines (New Caledonia) oh October 7…
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BRISBANE, Monday: Two of the men aboard the ketch Nova died within eight miles of land, said further details of the grim…
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NOUMEA, Monday.—James Cush, sole survivor of the tragic voyage of the ketch Nova, said to-day that a dying request of Frank Anderson, last of his three mates to go, made him…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Reuter's Vienna correspondent says: Eight Austrians accused before the British-American Military…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Police expect in their mail from Noumea tomorrow James Cush's diary of the 1000-mile drift of…
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NOUMEA (New Caledonia), Thursday (AAP). — Doctors have instructed that James Cush, the sole survivor in a crew of four in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Houses were shaken at Leichhardt early this morning when drums of petrol, benzine, oil, kerosene…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Officers of the Australian survey sloop Warrego today told of their discovery of a strange unidentified…
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EVANS HEAD, Sunday: Returning from a fishing expedition' off Evans Head, the 46ft. launch, The Voyager, owned and skippered…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The RAAF Mustang fighter which had been missing since Wednesday, was found wrecked yesterday in the…
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EVANS HEAD, Sunday.—Returning from fishing off Evans Head, the 46ft. launch, the Voyaser, owned and skippered by…
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The mast for National Station 2NR at Lawrence before and after the gale on Wednesday. The mast…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: The wreckage of the 18ft mission cutter Albinia, missing in the Gulf of Carpentaria since July…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Desperate efforts were made 6y the crew of the tug Waree to prevent it from running aground at the entrance to the Clarence River, said witnesses at a Naval court martial to-day…
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LONDON, Sunday: Three bodies and two ship's lifeboats washed ashore at St. David's Head indicate that the ship, Empire…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Defying dangerous seas, British and Greek naval ratings ferried 240…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: A fireman was killed, at least 24 persons were injured and several others, including a mother…
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JERUSALEM, Thursday (AAP). —Defying dangerous seas British and Greek naval ratings transferred 240 shipwrecked Jews…
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LONDON, Thursday: The American ship, North Eastern Victory, which went aground on Goodwin Sands in a fog on…
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