Steamer Aground
WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—With 392 passengers from Australia on board the Huddart Parker liner Wanganella went ashore on the Southern end of…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers
Steamer Strikes Mine
ATHENS.—It is officially announced that rescue ships have picked up and landed about 200 survivors from the Liner Shimaoor, which sank on…
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Eighteen trawlers, with specialist crews, are now continuously engaged in removing wreckage which is amenace to shipping around the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nearly 700 PassengersLost in Shipwreck BOMBAY. Friday (A.A.P.)
It is believed there are not more than 15 to 20 survivors from the 406 Bombay steamship Ramdas, which sank in a heavy rainstorm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trouble in China Police and Gendarmerie Fight Theatre Wrecked SHANGHAI, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Following a gun battle with, gendarmes on Sunday, in which eight people were killed and 15 wounded, police yesterday began reporting back…
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