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Broken Hill & the Far West · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951

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Man's Snores Wrecks Home

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 9

New York, April 25.—Richard Michalak's shores rattle the windows, shake the walls, drown television and talkies…

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Vessel Ashore

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 1

Sydney.—A report was received today stating that the 300-tons motor vessel Kelonoa is stuck fast on a reef at Kahdan. New…

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Continued Stockpiling Of Supplies "Would Wreck Western Production Program"

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 May 1951 · page 1

London, May 13.—Continued stockpiling of supplies would wreck the production program of the western world, the former president of the British…

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PERSIA Plot To Wreck Refinery

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 29 May 1951 · page 1

London, May 28.—Persion police and security chiefs have uncovared what is believed to be a vast Communist plot to…

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Piped Ashore

Barrier Miner · Saturday 2 June 1951 · page 1

Skirt of the pipes, played by 14-year-old Trevor Smith, of Terang (Vic,),…

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Kine Men in Ketch on World Trip

Barrier Miner · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 5

New York, A redbearded Scotsman, a South African, and seven Americans, manning an 86-ft…

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Steamer Is Black

Barrier Miner · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

Brisbane.—Volunteers, including farmers, clerks and salesmen, are expected to complete the loading of the…

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Interstates Wreck S.A. Roads Says Works Minister

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 2

Adelaide, June 19.—Works Minister Mcintosh today complained that the heaviest interstate road users with their diesel oil driven Minister were…

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Remains of Wrecked Constellation Found

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 25 June 1951 · page 3

New York, June 24.—[?] American Airways his announced that the "remains" of its missing Constellation airliner has been found about four miles…

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Mail Steamer Damaged

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 7

Colombo, June 25.—While the P & O steamer, Strathnaver was at anchor in Colombo Harbor she was…

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Body In Wreckage

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 1

Adelaide. — Apparently travelling away from the high part of the road, a car in the wreckage of which…

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Window Wrecked

Barrier Miner · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 12

Sydney.—After falling oil a motor cycle at Bondi, today a man chased the machine about 100 yards…

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Steamer Aground

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 6

Hobart—Gale force winds and high seas caused the Commonwealth lighthouse ship Cape York, 1406 tons…

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Gale Wrecks Three Planes and Hangar

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 3

Orange—A willy-willy lifted a plane off the ground, hurled it on to an aircraft hangar, wrecking the building and two more planes inside it at Orange last night…

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Gold On Wrecked Plane

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 6

Sydney. — The Qantas Drover aircraft which crashed into the sea a mile from Lae, New Guinea, on…

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Ketch Wrecked

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 1

Adelaide— The £1000 ketch Mary, on board which were a man, his wife and son, and an assistant, has been…

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5 Bodies In Wreck

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 8

Lae, August 7.— A diver who is trying to recover [?] 4 from the crashed Drover plane off New…

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Wrecked Auster Found

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 9 August 1951 · page 4

Port Moresby (AAP-Reuter.) August 5.—Natives have located the wreckage of the Auster aircraft that disappeared or Monday on a flight from Goroka…

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Stop Press Ketch Destroyed

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 12

Sydney.— Heavy surf practically destroyed the ketch Seafarer which which beached at redhead, near Newcastle, yesterday Valuable…

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Wrecking Crew From Russia?"

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 1

Washington, August 15.— The U.S. was confident any Soviet attempt to wreck the Japanese peace treaty would fail, Mr. John Foster Dulles said tonight. Mr. Dulles is President…

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