Ketch Survivors Refuse to Be Interviewed
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Mr. Alexander Hay and Miss Thelma Bennett, who were marooned on Curtis Island for three and a half…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949
56 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 3
Wreckage on Beach From Anson Plane
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- A small piece of aircraft wreckage, which was washed ashore on the beach near Lakes Entrance, is suspected to be from the missing Anson which…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Further pieces of wreckage identified as that of an R.A.A.F. Avro Anson which has been missing from East Side…
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SEOUL, Wednesday.--A small steamer carrying 200 Koreans capsized today en route to the island of Kangwha…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). -- The 2025 tons British steamer, Maystone, sank in a collision early today with the 18,300 tons British aircraft carrier, Albion, near Fame Islands, off the north-eastern…
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NEW YORK, Friday (AAP), --An Air France Constellation airliner, carrying Marcel Cerdan, French champion middleweight boxer, and 44 others, is reported to have crashed on a mountain peak on the Azores Islands…
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An interesting exhibit at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition which opened recently at Olympia, London, was an aluminium alloy funnel. Made by William Denny and Brothers, of Dumbarton, it is on show for the first time in England. The funnel is…
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HONG KONG, Monday (AAP-Reuter). -- A Chinese Nationalist warship at the mouth of the Yangtse River has intercepted a British steamer, Tsinan, en route to Hong Kong with a cargo from…
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OSLO, Tuesday (AAP). — Search parties found the wreck of the missing Dutch Dakota, carryinsr 29 Jewish children and six adults, which…
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OSLO, Wednesday (AAP). — In addition to those of the three nurses and three of the crew of four, the bodies of 25 children have been recovered from the wrecked Dutch Dakota, which crashed near…
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BOGOTA (Colombia), Monday (AAP)—Wreckage of the missing Colombian DC3 airliner was sighted in rugged north-western…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP).—While a fierce storm raged and 55 m.p.h. winds whipp 1 up mountainous seas, 27 seamen battled for their…
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SAN FRANCISCO. Friday (AAP). —A ground party yesterday recovered near Vallejo, California, the bodies of six adults and three…
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KARACHI, Thursday (AAP).— Twelve bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the Pakistan Airline Dakota which cashed on…
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A new type of airborne lifeboat is now in production by the Edo Corporation of New York City. The craft is nearly 30 feet long, weighs 1½ tons, and is of allaluminium construction. It isto be carried under B-29 search and rescue craft. The new A-3 boat has a four cylinder motor and sufficient fuel to cruise more than 500…
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Major Penrose and several men from the Torpedo Corps Will probably visit the district to blow up the wrecks of the S.S. Francis…
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