Wreckage From Dakota
BRISBANE, Monday: Wreckage was washed up on South Moreton Point over the weekend and has definitely been…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
101 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 6
70 M.P.H. Gales Whip Floods in Britain Wreckage Searched for Bodies
LONDON, Monday (AAP).—Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of homes in the Thames Valley. Wind caused extensive damage in Birmingham. Three people were dug out…
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HONOLULU, Tuesday (AAP). —The Navy Department announced that 22 men were rescued from the severed stern of the wrecked tanker,…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Two people were killed and four injured when a lifeboat was smashed as it was being lowered from…
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AMSTERDAM. Thursday (AAP). —The Greek steamer, Alexandra, 4355 tons, struck a mine off Terschelling Island and is…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP). —Seven members of the crew aboard the coal coaster, Empire Catamal, bound from Maryport for Cornwall,…
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Five workmen were trapped in the wreckage of a five-storey building which collapsed in Cincinnati, U.S. Operations wer being directed when this picture was taken…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: All 40 residents of the township of Cromarty watched in vain to-night for clear signals from the…
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BALLINA, Wednesday.—A patch of oil stretching from Lennox Head south to Robin's Beach has temporarily interrupted surfing in…
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DARWIN, Wednesday.—The air search is continuing for one of the four survivors of the fishing launch which was wrecked on Vernon Reef,…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: The burned-out wreckage of the RAAF Mosquito bomber which crashed into Saddle Mountain, south of Townsville, on Tuesday afternoon was sighted by an Avro Anson making an air search of the area this morning…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—A Catalina searching the Gulf Country for the missing Mosquito aircraft yesterday sighted the wreckage of a…
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BRISBANE, Friday: Wreckage of the New Zealand Mosquito bomber is believed to have been…
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KATHERINE, Thursday. The three airmen who had been left behind with their craft which had crashed…
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NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—Death roll in the tornado which slashed a path across Texas and Oklahoma is expected to [?] when rescue and search parties complete their check of the devastated towns…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A terrific explosion in a chemical works at Rosebery tonight almost wrecked the building, causing £50,000 damage, injured eight employees, and shattered windows for a distance of a mile. One employee, who was blown through the roof of the factory, escaped…
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Wing Commander B. R. O. B Hoare, pilot of the R.N.Z.A.F Mosquito bomber which crashed on desolate Sydney Island in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. City Wrecked In Holocaust: 1200 Dead Texas Port Swept by Poison Gas, Fire 3500, Hurt Wander in Ruins
NEW YORK Thursday, (AAP).—Twelve hundred persons are estimated killed, and 3,500 injured in a series of explosions which yesterday practically destroyed the city of Texas City, on the Gulf Mexico. The French freighter, Grand Camp, loaded with antmonlunt-nitrale end cotton, caught…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The police have placed a strong guard around the factory of A. C. Hatrick Pty. Ltd., at Rosebery, which was wreaked by…
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A fishing launch was wrecked on Duranbah beach, Tweed Heads, on Saturday — the second…
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