Ship Ashore; Crew of 44 Lose Lives
LONDON, Thursday: The entire crew of 42 of the Houlder Lines vessel Samtampa (7219 tons) lost their lives last night when…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
49 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 3
Freak Storm Wrecks Church
ADELAIDE, Monday: A freak willy-willy during darkness on Thursday night is thought to have completely…
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NEW YORK, Thursday: Twenty were killed and 100 injured when a tornado struck the village of Worth, Missouri. The population is over…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday: At least 20 persons were killed and 100 injured when a tornado struck the village of Worth, Missouri, yesterdays Worth has a population of 233…
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MANILA, Monday: The burned wreckage of President Roxas' personal plane, which has been missing for a week with four high Philippines…
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MANILA, Wednesday: A search party yesterday found ten charted bodies near the wreckage of the Sky-master plane, Lili Marlene, on the…
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OTTAWA, Thursday: The Canadian Steamship Lines announced that the Great Lakes steamer. Emperor. 7031 tons, struck rocks and sank in…
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SYDNEY. Thursday: Forced to heaveto for 24 hours off Gabo Island because huge seas were throwing Its propeller clear of the…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The auxiliary ketch, Kuila, reached Sydney today after a 22-day voyage from Auckland. Buffeted by gales, the crew…
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BRISBANE, Monday. A wreck which may be the 3000-ton tnter-state freighter, Yongala, which was last off the Queensland coast in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The unidentified body of a tall elderly man war found on the rocks at Manly today It had been washed ashore from…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The second lifeboat from the steamer Gippsland, wrecked off the New Guinea coast, has been beached alongside…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The clubrooms of the Paddington-Woollahra R.S.L. subbranch were wrecked last night when more than 50 men…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A bushman's discovery in rugged country in Eastern Victoria may solve the mystery of the ill-fated…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: A Gipsy Moth plane struck high tension wires while attempting a forced landing at Traralgon. 100 miles…
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PITTSBURGH, Wednesday: Between 20 and 30 persons were killed when the five-decked oil-burning inland excursion steamer, Island Queen…
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PITTSBURGH (U.S.), Wednesday (A.A.P.): Between 20 and 30 persons were killed when the five-decked inland excursion steamer, Island Queen, burned and sank at the quayside in the Monongahela River yesterday, two…
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JERUSALEM, Monday: Three British policemen, four Arab policemen and an Arab coffee vendor were killed; three British policemen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Plane Seen From Air Had Apparently Overturned Footprints Sighted Near Wreckage
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Polic in the Newcastle area were this morning requested by Civil Aviation officials at Mascot to investigate a report that a Westland-Widgoon monoplane in which James Whiteman, of Military road, Mosman, is 24…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Truman Agrees Comintern Aims to Wreck Europe
WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.): President Tru-man, while agreeing that the purpose of the new Communist Comintern makes the need for American aid to Europe urgent, yesterday told the Press that the United States…
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