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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

15 stories in New England's papers

Dutch Shipyard Builds Aluminium Steamer

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 13

A Dutch shipyard has bulit for a Finnish company which runs various lakeside hotels in Finland, a steamer built…

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Violent Explosions Wreck Shops Near H-Bomb Project

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 1

SOUTH CAROLINA, Wednesday: A violent explosion caused by leaking gas yesterday blow a whole shop to pieces, killing an estimated ten persons caught in the wreckage…

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Only Bodies From Plane Wreckage

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK: Bodies floated to the surface yesterday from National Airline's DC6 plane that…

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Getting Ashore in Korea

The Inverell Times · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 1

This graphic picture shows some of the difficulties added to the United Notions forces' task in Korea. Infantrymen are pushing a small landing barge into a river to cross to the opposite shore to engage…

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Comet Was Wingless When It Crashed Wreckage Scattered Over Eight Square Miles

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

CALCUTTA: The B.O.A.C. Comet jetliner which crashed near Calcutta 06 Saturday, killing all 43 people aboard, dived earthwards, wingless, at terrific speed "like a ball of fire," according to eye-witnesses…

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Tornado Wrecks Cities

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 10 June 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Louis Balint was lifting his baby son from his cot on…

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S. Korean Opposition Should Not Wreck Armistice

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 10 June 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: Although Allied and Communist negotiators are putting the finishing touches to the nearly complete Armistice, some feeling has developed in Washington that the actual signing of the…

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Rhee, The Wrecker

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 6

EVENTS in. Korea shown that Dr. Syngman Rhee will go to any lengths to wreck the…

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Rhee Could Wreck Chances Of Peace Bitter Comment From U.S., INDIA

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON: South Korean Fresident, Syngman Rhee, was under fresh fire in world capitals yesterday for his obstruction to the long-awaited Korean truce. In Washington Senator Alexander Wiley,…

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Vandals Wreck Golf Course

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 11

SYDNEY. Vandals last night wrecked bunkers and [?]ens on Concord Golf Course where the N.S.W…

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[?] Says Plans [?] to Wreck [?]N Conference

Glen Innes Examiner · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 1

[?] Wednesday [?]sia charged in the [?] Political Committee yesterday that [?] prepared to wreck the Korean Poli[?]…

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Russia Charges: "Plans Made "To Wreck Korean Talks" Omits Australia From Membership

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Russia charged in the United Nations Political Committee yesterday that plans were being prepared to wreck the Korean Political Conference. Russia's Andrei Vishinsky made the charge in the…

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Russia Alleges Moves to Wreck Korean Talks

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK: Russia charged in the United Nations Political Committee yesterday that plans were being prepared to wreck the Korean political conference…

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Airliner From Sydney Crashes Into Mountain Near 'Frisco 19 Believed Perished in Flaming Wreck:some Named

The Inverell Times · Friday 30 October 1953 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Friday: World-famous American pianist, William Kapell, returning home from his Australian concert tour, was among 19 persons who are reported to have perished when a British Commonwealth Airlines plane crashed and burned in fog-bound hills 25 miles south of Son Francisco…

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26 Dead: Tornado Wrecks U.s. City

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday: People in the wrecked city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, [?] under the pounding of a tornado, yesterday counted 26 dead and 230 injured victims…

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