Lifeboat, Ship Crews Drowned
LONDON, Thursday (AAP). —Mountainous seas and an 80-mile an hour gale prevented the rescue of any members of the crew of the…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
101 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 6
Crew and Lifeboat Men Lost in Ship Disaster
LONDON, Thursday: Mountainous seas and an 80-mile an hour gale prevented the rescue of 42 members of the crew of the Houlder Line's 7219-ton Samtampa, which broke in three after being driven broadside on to the rocks…
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LONDON, Thursday (AAP)—The hulk of the 31,000 ton battleship Warspite is on the rocks of the Cornish coast,…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).—At least 20 persons were killed and 100 injured when a tornado struck the village of…
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MANILA, Monday, (AAP).—The burned wreckage of President Roxas' personal plane, which has been missing for 3 week with four…
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GRAFTON, Monday.—Big Jim Cush, sole survivor of the nightmare sea trip of the ketch Nova, which was wrecked on an island…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: The representative of the New York Times at Papeete says that 170 passengers and crew of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday — Three young R.A.A.F. [?] who say they "had" Sydney, left for North Australian water in the 40-foct…
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In Byron Bay Court of Petty Sessions Leonard Joseph Field, Arthur William Field and Cyril Gregory Field successfully applied for delivery from the Sergeant of Police at Byron Bay of an outboard motor…
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LONG BEACH (California), Monday.--Hours after the tanker Markey, loaded with 2,940,000 gallons of petrol, exploded in…
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LONG BEACH (California), Monday.—Hours after the tanker Markey, loaded with 2,940,000 gallons of petrol, exploded in…
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BRISBANE, Monday: A wreck which may be the 3000-ton interstate freighter Yongala, which was lost off the Queensland' coast in March, 1911, has been located in 15 fathoms of water 11 miles east of Cape Bowling…
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PARIS, Monday (AAP).--The British United Press correspondent quotes the official French News Agency as saying that the Three Power conference had reached a dealock…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).--Reports that "the flying disc" had been found on a ranch at Roswell, New Mexico, during the past week and Had been handed oyer to the Army Air Force for investigation, yesterday startled sceptics who had been laughing at reports from over 40 Stated that "flying…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The unidentified body of a tall, elderly man was found on the rocks near Manly today. It had been…
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SYDNEY, Friday: When steering trouble developed aboard the 200 ion steamer, Kooraka, off the South Coast, near Jervis Bay last night…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: A lifeboat with some of the crew from the wrecked steamer Gippsland (133…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--It is reported that the second lifeboat from the steamer Gippsland wrecked off the New Guinea coast, has been…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP). --Disagreement about financial credits caused the breakdown in the Anglo- Soviet trade talks, Moscow Radio…
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MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (AP): Sea grass shrouded hulls of more than 40 ships sunk by German submarines…
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