Wrecked Men Safe
MELBOURNE, Thursday: Four members of a fishing party whose launch was wrecked on a rock in Bass…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952
26 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 2
Mercy Dash in Open Lifeboat
LONDON, Monday (AAP) A nurse and three doctors dashed 50 miles in an open lifeboat in thick fog and…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday (A.A.P.): A radar search is in progress in the stormy North Pacific for four lifeboats containing 45 men. They are the crew of the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday—Japanese seamen from the Orient Maru played baseball behind a wharf fence today because they…
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TUSCALOOSA (Alabama) Sunday (A.A.P.): A series of explosions shattered a big [?]oil barge in the Warrior River…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The coastal freighter Cobargo, the only vessel carrying general cargo between Sydney and the…
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HALIFAX, Sunday (AAP): The American ship, Vagabond Prince, reported yesterday it had found the wreckage of the…
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POMONA (California). Monday (A.A.P.): Five bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an ambulance…
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SYDNEY, Monday — Vandals last night again struck at Fairfield's Memorial Drive, breaking witha hamer five plaques…
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RIO DE JANIERO, Friday — The burned wreckage of the Pan American strato cruiser, missing for two days with 50 persons…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs.: A battered 85 foot schooner With 10 adventure-seeking perms aboard, was taken in tow…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Sydney tug is speeding to a point 100 miles east of Newcastle to assist a storm-battered…
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TOKIO, Thursday (A.A.P-Reuter): All the 13 Yalu River power plants in North Korea have been knocked out…
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EDMONTON Sun (A.A.P.) A rescue team has parachuted to the scene of a wrecked U.S. B-17 bomber in the Yukon…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday—Two bombers crashed in different parts of the United States yesterday, killing 13 persons…
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SYDNEY, Monday—The tug St. Giles today is still fighting a south-easterly gale in an endeavor to reach the crippled…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: R.A.A.F. aircraft in the second day of their search [?]iled to find any trace of the [?]arner Awahou today…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday—The ketch Thuruna, which set out from Brisbane last Thursday on a round-the-world…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP): Nineteen British seamen are believed to have died in the wreck of the British trawler…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: Twentyseven people, including women and a small child, were ship-wrecked on Moreton Island today. Howling westerly winds…
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