Ships in Distress in Pacific One Wrecked; Two Out of Control in Gales
NEW YORK, Friday—The Swedish all tanker, S.S. Avanti, broke in two in a storm between Japan and Okinawa last…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
17 stories in Riverina's papers
Rescuing pilgrims from shipwrecked liner
The 12,500 Ion French liner "Champollion" which was carrying pilgrims to the Holy Land, as she breaks up on a sandbank at Beirut, Lebanon. Here, lifeboatmen are seen attempting to launch a boat in the rough seas Hint marred rescue operations…
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PUSAN, Sunday (A.A.P.): Two hundred and forty-nine South Koreans were drowned when die 146-ton ferry boat Chang Kyong overturned and sank 10 miles from Pusan on Friday…
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TAREE, Friday: Three men escaped from a wrecked plane here to-day seconds before it exploded in a shower of wreckage and blazing fuel. With their clothes smouldering, the men crawled from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Young Couple Steal Ketch, Head for New Zealand But Seasickness Brought Them Back
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Police early today foiled a plan by a youth and his girl friend and another man to tail a 45ft ketch to New Zealand with the navigational aids of a newspaper weather map and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: An 18-year-old Sydney girl and a 19-year-old Victorian soldier who is A.W.L. had yesterday set sail to elope to New Zealand in a stolen £5000 ketch, Manly…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: R.A.A.F. Headquarters in Melbourne said today the aircraft wreckage sighted in mountain…
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LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): A bomb yesterday wrecked the main display window of a stationary shop in Glasgow…
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NEWCASTLE, Sun.: Ten houses were wrecked by a mine subsidence in Wallsend Street, Pelaw Main…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A Court of Marine Inquiry today found that the 437 tons freighter Awahou had foundered 60 miles west of Lord Howe Island on September 10 last year. The Awahou disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Comet Crash After Flying in Storm Structural Failure Believed Responsible Wreckage Scattered Over Eight Miles
CALCUTTA, Monday — The B.O.A.C. Comet jet liner which crashed near Calcutta on Saturday, killing all 43 people aboard, dived earthwards, wingless, at a terrific speed "like a ball of fire,"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel to This Week's Accident Two Can Almost Completely Wrecked
When the Coroner (Mr. J. A. McKenzie) conducts an inquiry into $to death cf Mr. Alfred Noack of Gidginbung…
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The Melbourne Cricket Ground's six-figure Olympic "face-lift" will begin next March, immediately after the Royal visit. The Melbourne Cricket Club…
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MELBOURNE. Thursday:— Since [?]left [?]alla four years are 21-years-old Bernald Donaghy, of St…
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ALBURY, Wed.: A semi-trailer was totally wrecked and its valuable 15-ton cargo strewn over the Hume…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday (A.A.P.): Investigators today completed their grim work of sorting through the wreckage of the DC6 airliner which crashed on Thursday, killing 19 people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Union Bill "Will Wreck the Labor Party" Independent's critical view of move
SYDNEY, Monday: Compulsory unionism legislation would cause the defeat of Labor at the forthcoming Federal elections, said Mr. J. Chalmers, Independent Labor, M.L.A. for Hartley, today…
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