Schooner Fire
YARMOUTH (Nova Scotia), Wednesday (AAP). — The historic 67-year-old schooner, City of New York, was swept…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
18 stories in Northern Rivers's papers
Wreckage of £700 Boat
Wreckage of the £700 fishing boat owned by Mr. Douglas Uden, which was smashed to pieces after it ran aground on the bar at Evans Head on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melle Wrecks Tasmanian Innings
LAUNCESTON, Wednesday.—Tasmania was dismissed for 65 in 109 minutes in the game against South…
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NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).—Bodies floated to the surface yesterday from a national Airlines DC6 plane that plunged into the Gulf of Mexico at night after being battered by 100 m.p.h. winds in a thunderstorm…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An 18-year-old Sydney girl and a 19-year-old Victorian soldier who is absent without leave had yesterday set sail to elope to New Zealand in a stolen £5000…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—An unidentified wrecked 'plane, which may have lain unseen since World War II, has been sighted in dense mountain jungle about 20 miles from Townsville. It is believed the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—One man was killed and 13 others injured, four seriously, when one of the worst explosions in Victoria's history almost wrecked the S.E.C.'s briquette factory at Yallourn this afternoon. The dead man is John…
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PERTH, Friday.—Japanese skin divers have been found operating on the wreck of the German light cruiser, Emden,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Subsidence Wrecks Ten Houses No Casulaties
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—Ten houses were wrecked by a mine subsidence in Wallsend Street, Pelaw Main, near Kurri Kurri, today. Great fissures appeared at the rear of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A court of marine inquiry today found that the 437 tons freighter Awahou had…
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Captain Kurt Carl sen, famous skipper of the "Flying Enterprise", performed the launching ceremony of the new Dutch lifeboat which has been named a'tpr him, at Noordwijk, near The Hague. Photo shows Captain Kurt Carlsen naming the new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whale Washed Ashore
A sperm whale, washed up on Tallow Beach, opposite Suffolk Park picnic ground, proved an attraction to Byron…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Paratroopers Wreck Vietminh Supply Centre
HANOI, Sunday (AAPReuter).—More than 5000 French Union paratroopers, who yesterday wrecked the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempt to Wreck Conference Soviet Charge
NEW YORK, Thursday(AAP).—A Soviet accusation that the western nations were attempting to present the Chinese Communists and North Koreans with an "ultimatum" resolution which would wreck the Korean political conference, preceded…
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TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.—The British steamer, Athol Sultan, is standing by off lonely Bougainville Reef,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Sydney ketch, Horizon, crossed the finishing line at Noumea today after battling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Explosion Wrecks Store, Cafe
SYDNEY, Sunday.—An explosion last night wrecked a shop and a cafe at Petersham. Police said the explosion…
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LISBON, Wednesday (AAP).--Many persons are still trapper under the wreckage following an explosion and…
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