Steamer on Rocks Refloated on Tide
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The coastal steamer, Allenwood, which was forced ashore at Narooma on Saturday, was refloated at high…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950
34 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
Missing Airliner Wreckage Sighted in Sahara Desert
ALGIERS, Monday (AAP).—The twisted wreckage of a French airliner, which crashed in the Sahara Desert with 26 aboard on Friday,…
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VIENNA, Monday (AAPJ. —Sabotage is believed to have caused a huge fire which wrecked Czechoslovakia's Soviet controlled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whale Washed Ashore
This young whale, 33 feet long, was washed up on Shellharbour beach, on the N.S.W. South Coast and died. Council authorities, with earth-moving equipment buried the carcass…
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LONDON, Sunday.-- Denouncing the "enemy within", the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee, addressing a Labor Party rally in his own constituency at Walhamstow, East London, said Communists could rule trade…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Davidson, 749, Wrecks Q'ld Innings
BRISBANE, Monday. -- N.S.W. fast left hand bowler, Alan Davidson, today took 749 off 19 overs to wreck…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Former Pleasure Steamer Sunk In Bombing Exercise
ADELAIDE, Monday. --Three waves of R.A.A.F. aircraft, swept over the hulk of the former pleasure steamer, Quorna, in a…
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BYRON BAY, Sunday. -- Hal Hankin, local bootmaker and spear fisherman, has found a lot of interest in the old sea-swept wreck of the Wollongbar. For more than a year now he has paddled out to the…
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ROCKHAMPTON, Monday. -- Lawrence Briggs, 19, a member of a fishing party, swam three miles in darkness last night from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hawaiian Ketch for Hobart Race
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The 37ft. ketch, Bachelor's Wife,, which was towed into Sydney Harbour early this morning, will contest the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Narrow Escapes as Launch Wrecked at Evans Head
A man and his son had narrow ebb tide was running and other escapes from drowning when theirboats could not approach close 24 feet fishing launch went aground and was battered to pieces on the…
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Evans Head fishermen yesterday made an unsuccessful attempt to salvage the marine engine of a 24ft. fishing launch which went aground and was battered to pieces on the bar on Thursday afternoon…
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A railway fireman was killed and a goods train driver injured when this heavy locomotive jumped the points and toppled down an embankment near Tuggerah on Wednesday. Edward Jakes, 19, fireman, of Morehead…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday (AAP-Reuter). -- Fourteen persons, including 11 holidaymakers, were drowned…
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