Six Saved From Wrecked Yacht
BRISBANE, Sunday. — A yachtsman swam 100 yards through heavy surf between dangerous rocks with a lifeline…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951
38 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 2
Ketch Overdue
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—East coast snipping has been warned by the Navigation Department to be on the lookout…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—After a six hour trip through rough seas in a small ketch, Mrs. Wendy Yates, the sick 21…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Obituary Came to Lismore in Schooner
Mr. Ernest John Smith, one of the Richmond district's grand old pioneers, died after a short illness, at the age of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Natives Find Plane Wreckage
PORT MORESBY, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).—Natives have located the wreckage of an Auster aircraft which…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The dramatic story of a pearling ketch, lost at sea for 13 days, was told when the crew of eight men and a youth staggered ashore at Redhead Beach, near…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—Captain Golden, of the ketch, Seafarer, which ran aground yesterday after being adrift for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Attempt to Wreck Jap Treaty Would Fail—dulles
WASHINGTON, Thursday (AAP).—United States' confidence that any Soviet attempt to wreck the Japanese Peace Treaty would fail, was voiced by Mr. John Foster Dulles in a broadcast last night. Mr. Dulles, who is in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disabled Steamer In Sydney Today
SYDNEY, Friday.—The disabled steamer, Stanfirth, is expected to reach Sydney tomorrow afternoon…
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DARWIN, Thursday.—The wrecked N.Z. troopship, Wahine, has been almost "completely looted," said Captain…
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The New Zealand troopship Wahine hit a coral reef 350 miles north of Darwin when travelling to Korea with 575 troops destined for the First Commonwealth Division. Picture shows the arrival of a lifeboat alongside the Panamanian tanker Stanvic Karachi after the former Lyttleton to Wellington ferry had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to Move Gunboat Wreck At Byron Bay
BYRON BAY, Thursday.—Byron Shire Council today began gauging the possibilities of removing the wreck of the…
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HAVANA, Tuesday (AAP).—Four carloads of masked, heavily armed men wrecked the printing equipment of the…
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PERTH, Monday.—The burnt-out wreckage of a twin-engined De Havilland aircraft, with a…
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LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—Following the finding of wreckage and the sighting of a partly sunken hull of a vessel near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migrants Sail Here in Ketch; 7 Mths.' Voyage
SYDNEy, Tuesday.—After a seven months' voyage from Britain, three sun-tanned English migrants arrived here…
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BUENOS AIRES, Friday (AAP).—An express train bound from Buenos Aires to Jujuy, in Western Argentina, was…
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BYRON BAY, Tuesday.—A shot comprising 25 lb. of gelignite was fired on the fore-part of the wreck, "Tassie Two," on the surfing beach at Byron Bay at 3.30 p.m. today…
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