Message in Bottle Tells of Shipwreck
GRAFTON, Thursday.--A message in a bottle found on rocks at Sawtell suggests that four men were shipwrecked in…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
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Wreckage Found
PORTAZZURRO (Elba), Friday (AAP).--Four pieces of the wreckage of the Comet jetliner which crashed into the ocean…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Police and fishermen rescued a honeymoon couple from a wrecked ketch, aground on a coral reef 68 miles east of Mackay, today…
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The Governor-General, Sir William Slim, salutes as the Queen steps ashore at Farm Cove…
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Floodwaters last week-end completely wrecked the wharf and offices of the North Coast Steam…
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WASHINGTON, Friday (AAP).--Roy Colin, chief counsel of Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigating subcommittee, once threatened to "wreck the army" in order to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- A prominent Sydney eye surgeon and his sister-in-law twice narrowly escaped death when a 32 ft. luxury cruiser struck a bombora in treacherous seas off Swansea early today…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP-Reuter).--Evidence that the missing South African Comet jetliner, Yoke Yoke, had crashed into the sea about 90 miles south of Naples mounted today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Warning Reds' Armistice Demands Will Wreck Conference
GENEVA, Friday.—Britain has served notice on the Communists that they will wreck the Indo-China peace conference unless they give up armistice demands unacceptable to the West. Reuter's diplomatic correspondent says the blunt warning, delivered…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A fast ocean-going tug has sped to the rescue of a drifting, crewless steamer off the New South Wales North Coast. The steamer, Ardross, is an old 2577 ton vessel which…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The wreckage of an R.A.A.F. Wirraway, missing since July 21, 1953, was found by a…
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Brunswick Heads residents yesterday saw wreckage from the fishing launch, Beachcomber, tossing in the heavy…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- One member of a crew of an R.A.A.F. Dakota which crashed in thick bush country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Claim Mother's Life Wrecked By Child's Death
A mother's shock on hearing of her daughter's injury and subsequent death in an accident had "wrecked her whole life," Mr. Athol R. Moffitt claimed in the Supreme Court…
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KYOGLE, Sunday. — When negotiating a bend on the Old Bonalbo Range as he was travelling over a newly made…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday.—After 10 years without a church, the Anglican community of Tumbulgum…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday. — Two men were forced to swim a quarter of a mile through heavy seas yesterday…
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Whales are giving Evans Head lobster fishermen a headache. The manager of Evans Head…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Twenty-five men yesterday dragged the wreckage of an Auster aircraft 200 feet Up a near precipitous, rock-strewn mountainside in the Burragorang valley. Grazier Max Hazelton, 27,…
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A fishing launch which was stranded on the estuary bar at Evans Head on Monday has become a total wreck…
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