First Meal Ashore
Crew members of the collier Munmorah, which is breaking up on a reef at Bellambi Point, look haggard after their ordeal as they eat their first meal ashore at Port Kembla…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
56 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 3
Decree for Husband Desertion "Wrecked" by Letters
Letters written by a woman to her soldier-husband in the islands wrecked the issue of desertion she had raised, said his Honour, Mr…
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TOKIO, Monday (AAP-Reuter).—Japanese national police headquarters today denied Japanese press reports that saboteurs had…
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The Italian freighter, Orione, driven ashore at Kurraba Point by the fierce gale which swept Sydney early yesterday morning. A tug is shown standing by. The 7176 ton vessel was towed undamaged…
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TOKIO, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).—One hundred and thirty Japanese died when the coastal steamer, Aoba Maru, sank in the…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Five of the crew were killed and eight passengers and five of the crew were injured when the 2950 ton Belgian cross-Channel steamer, Princess Astrid, struck a mine and sank off the Dunkirk beaches yesterday while en route from Ostend to Dover…
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HONG KONG, Friday (AAP-Reuter).—Thirty-eight crew members, including eight Australians, were rescued when the steamer Inchmark…
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LOS ANGELES, Sunday (AAP)—The Australian ketch, Kurrewa the Third, slid down the ways into Wilington Harbour yesterday, for the…
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LOS ANGELES, Wednesday (AAP).—The Australian ketch, Kurrewa III, was today reported to be trailing the field of trans-Pacific…
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LOS ANGELES, Friday (AAP) —The Australian ketch, Kurrewa 11. sailing: under faster winds, covered 165 [?] in the last 24 hours…
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HONOLULU, Friday (AAP).—The schooner Morning Star crossed the finishing line of the 2255 mile trans-Pacific yacht race at 10.12…
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CASINO, Sunday. — Rescuers worked for three-quarters of an hour tonight bell ore they could release two men trapped by the legs…
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HONG KONG, Sunday (AAPReuter).—About 30 shots were fired at the British river steamer, Wusueh, about two hours after her…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A [?] distress message from the ketch Kurrewa III. was picked up in Melbourne today…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Whether or not the Australian Steamship Company's 2333 ton freighter, Time, will become a total wreck may be decided at high tide tomorrow when efforts are expected to be…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—C.I.B, detectives and technical experts today uncovered an important clue on the sabotage of a Qantas Catalma flying beat which was blown up at Rose Bay flying base on Saturday…
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ON September 14, 1907, the North Coast Steam Navigation Company's vessel, s.s. Tomki, in negotiating the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Police are making State-wide searches in Victoria and South Australia for Bernard William Harnsworth, 44, engineer, who intended making a Pacific cruise with a man and a…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The mystery surrounding Alexander Hay and Miss Thelma Bennett could not be cleared un until [?]…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Believed to be from the ketch, Miss Evelyn, which was wrecked in Bass Strait, a month ago, a kapok filled…
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