Wind Was Wrecker
[?]dayma[?] under canvas at district seaside resorts had some anxious moments when a strong wind developed on Saturday…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
61 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 4
Chinese Wreck British Consular Offices
HONGKONG, Friday (AAP-Reuter).--A mob of 5000 Chinese attacked and wrecked the British Consular offices in Canton in the worst…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Eight Australians--five men and three women--and an Englishman have been rescued by the freighter Fort Carillon from the British yawl Southern Star,…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday: At least one American desiring to settle in Australia is not concerned by either steamship…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The report that the wreckage of a plane had been found in wild country about five miles from Kiandra,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A dramatic radio message has been received from the Victorian ketch, Kurrewa…
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HONGKONG, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).--Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed dead and 15 taken to hospital as the result of panic…
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HONGKONG, Sunday: Twenty-six Chinese passengers are believed dead and 15 were taken to hospital as a result of [?] panic, due…
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HONG KONG, Sunday: Six thousand cabaret hostesses and workers wrecked the Social Affairs building yesterday…
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JERUSALEM, Monday (AAP).--A heavy explosion occurred, yesterday in the "Palestine Post" newspaper building which was virtually demolished and set on fire, states Reuters correspondent…
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Byron Shire Council will again inform the Maritime Services Board that the wreck of the U.S. Army Small Craft vessel, "Tassy III" is…
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BRISBANE, Mon.: Portmasters along the north coast have not sighted the 8[?]ft. ketch Taipan, which left Brisbane for Cairns on…
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CAIRNS, Wednesday: The ketch Taipan, valued at £7009, which was being brought from Sydney to engage in pearling,…
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PARIS, Sunday (AAP). -- Wreek[?]age was found on the Normandy invasion coast of France's giant, six engined seaplane Latecoere 6[?]…
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LONDON, Monday: The British United Press representative in Paris says: The wreckage of the giant French…
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JERUSALEM, Wednesday (AAP).--A terrific explosion wrecked an entire street in Haifa today, killing a large number of people…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The 40-year-old steamer, Ulalong, formerly the Boambee, ran aground on Belmont Beach…
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Damage estimated at many thousands of pounds has been revealed as the tremendous seas of the past week begin to subside. 'Byron Bay was most heavily…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The District Officer at Rabaul replying tonight to an inquiry by the United Press…
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BRISBANE, Friday: Two youths, Dudley Hamilton (19) and Neil Baden (16), sailed into Scarborough, on Moreton Bay, after a 10-day voyage from Sydney in a leaking boat…
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