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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954

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Cresswells Used Parts Wrecking

Northern Star · Saturday 6 November 1954 · page 5

Chev.: 1927. '28, '32, '35, '37, '38. Fords: Model A, 1933 V8, 1935, '36, '37, '38…

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Launch Wreck Problem for Fishermen

Northern Star · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 5

The wrecked launch, The Gem, is proving a problem for Evans Head fishermen. The launch was wrecked on…

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Sand Covers Wreck At Evans Head

Northern Star · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 4

Evans Head fishermen can cross the river bar more easily as the wreck of the launch, The Gem, is sanding over…

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Divers Find Plane Wreckage

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday—Divers yesterday located the main wreckage of an Italian DC-6 airliner in which the…

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Powerhouse Wrecked

Northern Star · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 1

SAO PAUIO, BRAZIL, Wednesday.—Women and children were members of a mob, several hundred strong, which is…

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Toys In Plane's Wreckage

Northern Star · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.—A heap of children's toys was found among the charred wreckage of the British Overseas Airways stratocruiser which crashed at Prestwick airport, Glasgow, yesterday, with a los of 28 lives—24 passengers and four members of the crew…

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