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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

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Step-up of Anti-jewish Movement in Russia “Health Wreckers” May Face Big Public Trial

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1953 · page 1

LONDON: Russia’s disclosure of a “terrorist” group found inside the Kremlin has been followed up by front-page editorials in every Moscow newspaper. Nine doctors hove been arrested—six of them Jewish—and charged with murdering two Soviet leaders…

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Six Of Lifeboat Crew Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 4

LONDON: Six of seven lifeboatmen bringing their boat Into Fraserburgh harbour, Scotland, were…

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Lifeboat Is Idea of Clergyman

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 8

The Drat lifeboat was the Idea of an 18th century English [?]pyman, Archdeacon Sharp, He knew that a very special…

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10 Homes Wrecked In Mine Subsidence Child Thrown To Safety By His Father

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 2

Tea homes were wrecked in a mine subsidence under the township of Pelew Main, about 2,30 yesterday afternoon. The cave-in happened without warning and was…

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Wreck Located By Salvage Ship

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 2

WELLINGTON: The savage ship Foremost 17, which attempt to recover the remaining gold ban sunk…

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Prayers at Mouth of Wrecke Dmine

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 1

ANGANU[?]O (Mexico): Hundreds at ladings knelt in prayer at the South of an explosions shattered silver mine…

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Plane Wreckage Found On Beach

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: Searchers to-day found portion of a Vampire jet aircraft on Elizabeth Beach, near…

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Cloud Formation May Have Caused Crash Aircraft Wreckage Spread Over Area Of Eight Miles

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

CALCUTTA: The B.O.A.C. Comet jet liner which crashed near Calcutta on Saturday, killing all 43 people aboard, dived [?]thwards wingless at terrific speed “like a ball of fire,” according to eye witnesses…

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Ships Collide in North Sea Darkness British Steamer Wrecked

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 1

LONDON : Two persons are known to have been killed and two more bodies may still be in the wreckage of the British Railways steamer, Duke of York, which come info collision with the American this…

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Women Launch Lifeboat

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 June 1953 · page 6

For generations the crew that has manned the Dungeness lifeboat on one of the bleakest parts of the Kent…

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[?] Steamer Fired on

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 1

KONG KONG: The British steamer, Wing Sang was fired on with machine guns by an unidentified junk shoot 300…

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20 Dead In Blazing Steamer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

BElRA (Portuguese East Africa): Twenty African stevedores died in the holds of the blazng Belgium…

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Claims Lifeboat Unsinkable

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 2

BRUSSELS: An unemployed workman, M. J. Taverniers, claims he has invented an “unsinkable” lifeboat for…

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Plan to Wreck Armistice

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 3

TOKYO: Peking radio today charged that the United States was “brewing a new scheme to wreck the Korean…

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'Plane wreckage found

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 July 1953 · page 1

HONOLULU.— A United States Navy transport yesterday found wreckage of the gian airliner which…

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To-day’s Leader An Atomic Pile Still Awaiting Final Approval for Truce American Officials Confident Rhee Won’t Wreck Armistice

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 July 1953 · page 1

PANMUNJOM: United Nations and Communist officials Were to-day reported to be awaiting only final approval from their Governments to sign a Korean armistice and end the three-year-old Korean war…

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Long Voyage in 33ft. KETCH

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 2

DARWIN: A young Swedish married couple has arrived in Darwin in a 33ft. ketch after a 16,600 miles trip from…

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Vandals Wrecked Golf Course

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Vandals last night wrecked bunkers and greens on Concord golf course, where the N.S.W…

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Korean Orphan in War Wreckage

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 August 1953 · page 5

Homeless and alone in the world, this Korean war orphan sits amid wreckage of war near the battlelines in Korea. The youngster lost both parents during a battle a few days before. Korean children have been…

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Newcastle Schooner Takes Lead

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: The schooner Irene (Newcastle) her taken [?] lead in the Sydney [?] ocean yacht race…

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