Lifeboat Voyage Across Atlantic
LONDON, Monday: A 68-year-old American, Felix Brandsten, and a 44-year-old Finn, Ivar Heino, have arrived at Falmouth…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948
61 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 4
Wreckage Found of Plane
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday (AAP-Reuter).—Wreckage, believed to be that of the missing Dakota plane, was seen today on a 1700…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arabs Wreck Pumping Plant on Jerusalem Water Line
LONDON, Thursday: A fire raged in Latrun water pumping station, which supplies Jerusalem, after two, explosions at dawn today caused heavy damage to is equipment, reports Reuter's Tel Aviv correspondent…
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Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Rifle Club suffered a serious setback when vandals smashed target machines, the…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: It is reported that the three-masted Portuguese auxiliary fishing schooner, the Gaspar, is sinking in…
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EDMONTON (Canada), Thursday: BCAF North-West Command announced tonight that the wreckage of the United States Army…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP).—Diamonds valued at £15,000 sterling were recovered from the wreckage of the Dutch Constellation at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Type British Lifeboat
The first British lifeboat to be fitted with a deck cabin recently completed her trials at Cowes, Isle of Wight, prior to going into service at St Helier Jersey. The St. Helier lifeboat is the first to use aluminium alloy, instead of wood or mild steel, for the whole…
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The "Elizabeth Rippon" is the first British lifeboat to be fitted with a deck cabin, which has sheltered seats for eleven more people. Chart table, lockers and a means of cooking are incorporated…
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WELLINGTON, Friday: A ground rescue party expects to reach the werckage of the lost New Zealand airliner at 10 a.m. tomorrow, New Zealand time…
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LONDON, Monday: Fourteen men are feared lost from the 480 ton French motor tanker, Saint Guenole, of Rouen, which…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An attempt to derail the Brisbane Express near Nambucca last night failed when the engine cowcatcher swept aside…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Five motor vehicles were damaged, three people hurt and a butcher's shop wrecked in an accident at Mascot today…
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There is a safety rule that is not technically a legal regulation, but breach of it is one of the major causes of road…
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CANBERRA, Friday: The wreakage of an aircraft found yesterday on a mountainside in…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—The wreckage of the aircraft found yesterday on a mountainside in heavily timbered country 21 miles north-west from Canberra was identified positively to-day as that of the Percival Q6 plane which disappeared in August last year on a flight from Sydney to Glee long, Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →National Fitness Camp Wrecked in Freak Storm
Freak storms in the Richmond district yesterday wrecked the National Fitness camp at Lennox Head and lifted the roofing iron of a Corndale dairy 500 feet into the air before dumping the sheets on a hill…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday: A terrific explosion on the Williamette River shook Portland last night and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Quake Wrecks Penal Colony
MEXICO CITY, Sunday: An earthquake late yesterday destroyed 90 per cent, of the buildings of a penal colony on Marias Islands, a small archipelago off the west coast of Mexico…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Completing her 33,000-mile round the world cruise, the 40-foot ketch, Kathleen, entered Sydney Heads at 3.45 this…
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