Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

512 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 26

Owners back in wrecked home

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 11

A man and his wife, owners of the house in Sirius Avenue, Mosman, which "mystery tenants" wrecked and deserted on…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Empire Freaks Wreck Records Wind Bar to Sprint Award to Girl

Truth · Sunday 5 March 1950 · page 27

Sensational Empire Games champion Marjorie Jackson smashed the Australian 100 metres record for women at the combined athletic meet at the Sydney Sports Ground yesterday only to have the record disallowed when judges ruled that wind assisted. Marjorie's…

Continued on Trove, page 27 →

Bus wrecked at crossing

The Sun · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The driver of an empty 30 passenger bus jumped cleartiday before it was struck by…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

‘Libs’ Wrecking Price Control As Basic Wage Drags Slowly

Tribune · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 5

As the basic wage case is adjourned to March 14, the court having sat only 65 days since February, 1949, the “Liberals”-controlled States, led by Victoria, are making a move to destroy completely the last vestige of…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Children die watching television as plane wrecks home 15 killed in plane crash; houses afire

The Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 1

MINNEAPOLIS, Tuesday.-- At least 15 people were killed, including all 10 passengers and crew of three, when an airliner crashed in the residential section of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

U.S. ketch overdue in Tasman

The Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 8

American yachtsman Alfred Peterson has not been sighted since he left Auckland for…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Schooner shortage

The Sun · Sunday 12 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY beer drinkers are angry over the shortage of schooners in many hotel bars…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Ketch From N.Z. Brings "World Citizen"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 3

HOBART, Sunday.—When George Dibbern, 60, sailed his ketch Te Rapunga into Hobart yesterday after a 22-day trip…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Moscow methods will wreck the Labor Party

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 8

ON the eve an election, the State Labor Party is approaching a crisis that…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

New Blue Funnel Steamer Hector on Maiden Voyage

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 1

The cargo/passenger turbine steamer Hector, the second of three similar turbine steamers which Messrs. Harland & Wolff…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

40 Drown In Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Friday.--Forty passengers are missing and believed drowned in the steamer…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

40 Drown In Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Friday.--Forty passengers are missing and believed drowned in the steamer…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

40 Drown In Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Friday.--Forty passengers are missing and believed drowned in the steamer…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

40 Drown In Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Friday.--Forty passengers are missing and believed drowned in the steamer…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Russian Ships Wrecked in Gale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 March 1950 · page 1

One of four Russian fishing vessels caught in a violent storm off the island of Bornholm, in the Baltic Sea, this ship was driven ashore on the rocky coast of the island. A fisherman from Bornholm threw a line to the crew of the vessel, who clambered to the shore unharmed…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Lifeboat Swamped; Surf Men Escape

Truth · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 1

Five members of the North Bondi surf crew who are rowing to Coolangatta (Qld.), were thrown into the water…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Balmain Wreck Western Side

Truth · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 27

A well-conditioned Balmain team thoroughly trounced Western Suburbs 34-nil in the main game of five trials played at the Sports Ground yesterday. Wests were completely outclassed…

Continued on Trove, page 27 →

Rescued From U.S. Wreck

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 19 March 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, March 18 (A.A.P.).—All 40 officers and crew of the U.S. Navy tender Eider, which caught fire from…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Explosions Wreck Rome Offices 5,000,000 Begin 12-hour Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 3

ROME, March 22 (A.A.P.).— Three bomb explosions in Rome this morning heralded a 12-hour nation-wide strike, called by the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Dinghy Wreckage

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 41

MELBOURNE, Thursday. Wreckage of a dinghy, believed to be from the yawl Mutineer, which disappeared…

Continued on Trove, page 41 →