Adrift for 32 hours-then blown ashore
MELBOURNE, Mon.: After spending 32 hours adrift in Port Phillip Bay in an open boat, two men and a boy were…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954
17 stories in Riverina's papers
Youth Killed When Struck by Surf Lifeboat
SYDNEY, Monday: A 17-year-old youth who gained a brilliant pass in his Leaving examination, was killed…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: Police, ambulance men and civilians worked for more than an hour to free a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ketch Battered by Heavy Seas
SYDNEY, Monday: A 35ft ketch limped into Newcastle Harbor today after surviving a five day battering by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Threat to wreck U.S. Army"
WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.): Roy Cohn, chief counsel of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Investigating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatens to wreck French Govt
PARK, Sunday (A.A.P.): M. Iene Mayer, former Premier and influential Radical Party leader, yesterday…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: A description of how a stolen taxi had been wrecked when it crashed and overturned in Mitcham Road, Donvale on the night of January 31 while being driven by girl was given in Rignwood…
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GIBRALTAR, Monday, (A.A.P.): Guns boomed and church bells pealed as the Queen stepped ashore of Gibraltar today…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP): The newly completed turbine cargo steamer "Ballarat" was taken over by the P. and O…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: The Director of Flying Safety (Wing Commander C. H. D. Brown) and other R.A.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →K.L.M. Airliner Presumed Lost Wreckage Found In North Sea
THE HAGUE, Tuesday— Rescue vessels and aircraft are searching the North Sea for possible survivers of a Dutch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Fishermen Stranded on Lighthouse Ketch
MELBOURNE, Thursday — In an effort to bring ashore three fishermen from the lighthouse ketch Alpha, storm-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain Wrecks Sporting Fixtures in N.s.w., Victoria and in Riverina
Rain that has lashed New South Wales and Victoria during the last few days and continued in Sydney and Melbourne yesterday, has extensively disrupted sporting fixtures. In Victoria, the rain wrecked plans for four big sporting fixtures…
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A painstakingly rebuilt World War I plane crashed at Moorabbin Airport last weekend—and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury man strahded on steamer
LONDON. Thursday (AAP): An Albury man, Harry Simon, was one of three Australians today reported to be still…
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NEW YORK, Monday Divers yesterday localed the main wreckage of the Italian DC6 airliner in which the bodies of 17 victims are believed to be trapped…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Fierce electrical storms, the worst for years, left a trail of wreckage through far north Western N.S.W. today…
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