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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952

53 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 3

Hollway seen as a “wrecker”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 September 1952 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Hopes of a complete amalgamation between the Country Party and the Liberal and Country Party could be…

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19 British seamen are drowned in trawler wreck

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 October 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.: Nineteen British seamen ore believed to have died in the wreck of the British trawler Norman on rocks off the South Greenland coast. According to radio…

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Masked men try to wreck radio station

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 October 1952 · page 3

TUNIS, Sun.: A band of masked Tunisians yesterday tried to sabotage Tunisian radio communications when they attacked…

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Ketch completes long voyage

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 3

NORFOLK (Vir.), Sun.: The 45-foot ketch Miru. carrying six persons on a voyage from New Zealand to Boston, is now…

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Frenzied Africans Run Amok: kill and Wreck

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 1

POM ELIZABETH, Mon.: Racist bitterness was fainted Info a murderous frenzy here last night when four whites and seven Africans were killed. Over 3988 Africans fought it out with hundreds of armed police. The clash was the first serious one following the introduction by the…

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Doctor’s Ketch Trip Nears End

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 October 1952 · page 18

BOSTON, Tues.: An amateur radio operator reported today that he had made contact with Dr. Thomas Davis on the ketch Miru,…

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Man Has Ear Bitten Off and Home Is Also Wrecked

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A man had his ear bitten off and his home completely wrecked in a brawl in Lennox street, Richmond, at midnight last night. Arthur Bartram Waterman was the man who had his ear bitten off. However, it was later sawn back on at St. Vincent’s Hospital…

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Guerrillas Wreck Power Plant

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 November 1952 · page 3

SEOUL, Sun.: Guerrillas raided a hydro-electric power plant on Cheju Island, off the south coast of Korea yesterday,…

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Wreck Blocks Port Entrance

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 November 1952 · page 2

ROTTERDAM, Sun.: Rotterdam, one of the main ports of Europe, has been paralysed by the wreck of the 6000-ton…

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Family wrecked on North head

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: Four members of the same family, including a 72 - year - old grandfather, were wrecked…

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Miraculous escape when washing machine explodes Brick And Iron Structure Wrecked

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 25 November 1952 · page 1

Mr. Norman Harry Allen, 53, of Carline’s, had a miraculous escape from death at 2.30 p. m. on Saturday when a household…

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Speed Boat Almost Wrecked

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 December 1952 · page 17

WAGGA, Sun.: A £400 speed boat was almost totally wrecked while racing on Lake Albert today…

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Four houses wrecked : 40 others unroofed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 December 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Fri.: Four houses we re wrecked and about 40 were unroofed by a fierce storm at BIackhall in…

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