Ship Wrecked
ALEXANDRA, Tuesday: The American steamer, Bert Williams, bound from Fremantle or Cobh, has been abandoned after…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
61 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 4
Reds Wreck Crash Probe
BERLIN, Wednesday. (AAP).--Because Russian representatives refused to hear American or German witnesses, the joint Anglo-Soviet inquiry into the Berlin air disaster in which 15 lives were lost when a…
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SHANGHAI, Thursday: Mystery shrouds the fate of over 500 passengers on the steamer Wan Lee, who landed in a Communist…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Buildings Were unroofed and hundreds of tents blown down and ripped to pieces when a 40-mile-an-hour…
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KODIAK (Alaska), Thursday: A fishing schooner, with 13 persons aboard, radioed an SOS message today saying she was…
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BRISBANE, Monday: The wreckage of a two-engined aircraft, probably an American Army plane, has been seen on…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--A Civil Aviation Department launch with a diver on board will leave Cairns Harbour to-morrow morning to…
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HONOLULU, Wednesday: The crippled 90ft. fishing and exploration motor-ship, Alaska, with 14 aboard, was under tow here…
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BRISBANE: Sunday: The 100-ton tug Albatross, en route from Sydney to Thursday Island, is aground on the South Passage bar between Moreton and Stradbroke Islands at the…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: Two stockmen today found the charred wreckage of a large airplane, with the remains of…
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MELBOURNE. Wednesday:-- An R.A.A.F. officer will, fly to Queensland this weekend to try to fix the identification of the…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.-- The wreckage of the plane found yesterday in the bush 35 miles east of Monto has…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: The bodies found near the wreck of the twin-engined Douglas plane, 35 miles east of Monto, Qld., on…
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Photograph of the fireproof lifeboat on the Shell tanker, M.V. Solarium, showing watertight compartments on the hull of the boat, water pipes along and across the superstructure, the four levers for manually operating the water spray and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It Happened 60 Years Ago (Extracts from the "Northern Star" file of 1888, from June 25 to July 2.) Steamer Service
(Advt.) The "Messenger" leaves Woodburn for Lismore every morning at 6.30 and Lismore for Woodburn every afternoon at 2 o'clock…
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HARDEN, Thursday.--Police guards were maintained last night and today to prevent looting from the wreckage of the south-west mail train which crashed near Harden early…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — The finding of two fishplates hidden in the bush near the scent of the smash-up of the South-west Mail train near Galong on June 30 is expected to start one of the…
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CAPETOWN, Wednesday:-- The steamer, Earlham Victory, with 62 on board, has wirelessed that she is drifting helplessly in the South…
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DARWIN, Monday: An unknown wreck located yesterday by a native diver is giving ah added thrill to the hunt for pearl and pearl shell now being carried on by luggers in Darwin harbor…
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DARWIN, Friday: The whereabouts of the United States navy destroyer, Peary, which was sunk by Japanese bombs in…
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