George Formby Launches Lifeboat
SYDNEY, Sunday: A crowd of 27,000 people at Maroubra Beach today watched Mr. and Mrs. George Formby christen and launch…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947
49 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 3
Shipwreck Survivors
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia). Monday: Thirty shipwrecked members of the crew of the British freighter, Langlecrag, are now…
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KETCHIKAN (Alaska), Wednesday: Forty-six men are believed to have been drowned in a ship wreck. A coast guard plane reported that…
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KETCHIKAN (Alaska), Thursday: The Coastguard reported that it found four men alive and three dead on the bow of the army transport,…
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KETCHIKAN (Alaska). Wednesday: Forty-eight men are believed to have lost their lives when the Army transport…
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PARIS, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Twenty persons were killed when the Paris-Arras mail train was derailed "after saboteurs had…
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ALBURY, Sunday: J. Wilson, a recent arrival from Melbourne, has proved a sensation as a fast bowler. Playing in his first match…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreckage of Plane on Polar Flight Sighted in Alaska
NOME (Alaska), Sunday (AAP): The wreckage of a superfortress which had been missing since December 23 on a flight over the…
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MANILA, Sunday (A.A.P.): Damage in the Philippines by the typhoon is now revealed to have been so vast that General MacArthur today offered to grant any aid needed for the republic's recovery…
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