Four Rescued From Wrecked Launch
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Four members of a fishing party whose launch was wrecked on a rock in Bass Strait last…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
21 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 2
Launch Wrecked, Ketch Disabled In Heavy Seas
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Pleasure lauch was wrecked and a ketch was disabled in heavy seas [?] Sydney today. A [?] police launch, and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A disabled 25ft. launch was blown by high winds on to rocks and overturned and sunk at…
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AUCKLAND, Wednesday (AAP-Reuter).—The Auckland ketch Ladybird is almost certain to have won the Tasman…
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PERTH, Friday.—A small Auster aircraft which has been missing since Wednesday night was found today by a…
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WASHINGTON, Monday (AAP).—A 30 foot lifeboat, which can be dropped from a plane and then guided by…
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CATANIA (Sicily), Monday (AAP).—Search parties today reached the wreckage of a British airliner which…
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Woodburn-Evans Head R.S.L. sub-branch instructed its secretary, Mr. D. Munro, to write to the…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.— An aircraft engineer who paddled a surf ski from Sydney was almost wrecked as he…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday (AAP).— battered 85 foot schooner, with 10 adventureseeking persons aboard, was…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australian coastal shipping was being wrecked by the effects of the overtime ban imposed in Australian ports by rank and file members of the Waterside Workers' Federation, the Minister for…
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Wreckage of the Byron Bay fishing fleet is strew[?] along the beach for several miles following this…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP)—Communist prisoners on Koje Island, off Korea, wrecked a much…
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SEOUL, Monday (AAP)—United Nations fighter-bombers today struck in two big waves at a key Communist…
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Twelve bodies have been recovered, and 30 people are still missing, from the disastrous floods which…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Two men, aged 41 and 39, were arrested by armed naval guards last night when…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—R.A.A.F. aircraft, in the second day of their search, have failed to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Shipping authorities now fear that the 437ton motorship Awahou has foundered in the Tasman Sea with all 16 hands, and the R.A.A.F. has abandoned its search. Awahou is six days overdue…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Twenty-seven people, including eight women and a small child, were shipwrecked on Moreton Island today. Howling westerly winds,…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday (AAP).—Investigators today completed their grim work of sorting through the wreckage…
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