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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954

45 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 3

Near wreck in Murray

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 18

MILDURA, Fri.:. The £20,000 paddle motor vessel Wanera limped into Wentworth early tonight more than 24 hours late…

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Steamer Founders

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 6

STOCKHOLM, Mon.: The 883-ton Swedish steamer Medjan, with a crew of 16 aboard, was presumed to have sunk in the Gulf of…

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Was there a shipwreck ?

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs. ; A Medicine bottle containing a note from three survivor of a supposed shipwreck was found at…

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Search for Comet Wreckage

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 2

LONDON, Tues.: The motor trawler Favilla, searching for the wreckage of the British comet Jetliner which plunged into the…

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Honeymoon couple rescued from wrecked ketch

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 16

BRISBANE, Wed.: Police and fishermen rescued a honeymoon couple from a wrecked ketch, aground on a coral reef 68 miles east of Mackay, today. The owner-skipper of the…

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Attempts will be made to refloat ketch

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thurs.: Attempts will be made tomorrow to refloat float the 36 ft. ketch aground on a coral reef, 68 miles east of…

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’Plane wreckage found

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

LONDON, Thurs.: Plane wreckage, believed to be from a RAF Wellington bomber which disappeared in a blizzard over the…

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T. V. reveals wrecked Comet

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 16

LONDON, Sun.: Wreckage of the Comet airliner which crashed off Elba on January 10 with a loss of 35 lives was located on…

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Border Cricket Len Moon wrecks Wodonga’s hopes(By “Keeper,”)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 13

A sensational spell of bowling by Country Week representative Len Moon wrecked any chance Wodonga may have had of winning against Kiwis in a first grade match of the A. and B.C.A. yesterday…

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Cave-in wrecks big factory : vanished into ground

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 15

WINDSOR (Ont.), Sun.: A huge chemical works in Windsor today lies crippled, with some of its buildings almost vanished from view and others tilted at crazy angles, as the result of the…

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Crashed plane wreckage identified

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 February 1954 · page 24

MELBOURNE. Fri.: RAAF authorities confirmed today that wreckage of an aircraft found recently in the Black Spur ranges, near…

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Battered ketch limps into port

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Mon.: A 35ft ketch limped into Newcastle harbor today after surviving a five-day battering by…

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“Threat to wreck army”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 24

WASHINGTON, Fri. . Roy Cohn, chief counsel of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigating subcommittee once threatened to…

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Bogus taxation men and “policeman” wreck flat: steal jewellery and cash

Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A flat in Barkly street, St. Kilda, was wracked and jewellery worth £360 and 30/-in cash stolen by three men who called at the flat yesterday and claimed that they were a policeman and two…

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Jerilderie Organisations Don't Wreck Them

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

For a town of its size, Jerilderie has no doubt, as many, if not more sporting, social and welfare organisations as…

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Three swim from wrecked fishing boat

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Fri.: A 40 ft. fishing boat valued at £6500 was lost when it struck a reef and sank off Apollo Bay during a…

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“Haunted House” Wrecked

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 22

HORSHAM, Tues.: Police are investigation the wrecking of Horsham’s strangest, ceriest house, three-stroved…

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Man burns to death in wreck

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 May 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Sunday: A man was burned to death in his panel van after it had crashed 60ft. over an embankment at Mount…

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“Evatt’s policy would soon wreck country”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 May 1954 · page 6

PERTH, Tues.: “Dr. Evatt’s policy would wreck this country inside 12 or 18 months,” the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said here today. The Chifley and Evatt…

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Federal Minister Claims : Red wreckers planted in Australian industries

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 12

CANBERRA, Sun.: Communists were planting well-trained agitators in key industries in on attempt to create a state of anarchy in the trade union movement, the Minister for Labor and National Service (Mr. Holt)…

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