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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

20 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers

Our Serial Story— Who Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Our Serial Story— Who Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Lost Fishermen. One Body Washed Ashore. MELBOURNE

The Wellington Times · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 1

The body of Frank Roberts (77), of Sandringham, who was browned on a fishing trip on Friday was washed ashore at…

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Our Serial Story— Who Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Search Party's Find Plane Wreckage; Victims' Remains NEWCASTLE

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 1

Parts of the skulls of two R.A.A.F. men were found by a search party in heavily wooded country on Barrington Ranges,…

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Our Serial Story Who Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Our Serial Story— Who Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Our Serial Story Wrecked Their Home? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Found Dead in Wreckage Three Occupants of Plane. BRISBANE

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 1

Three occupants of a RAAF Norseman plane, which crashed in wild country in Cape York Peninsula, have een found dead…

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Our Serial Story— Who Wrecked Their Home ? Characters of This Story

The Western Herald · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

Dr. Michael Graham, whose first wife Muriel Graham, died from an overdose of drugs…

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Our Serial Story—- Who Wrecked Their Home ?

The Western Herald · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

"'Dear Mr. Skall,' it runs—"It is impossible for me to come to your shop to-day, as my husband and that girl are watching my…

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Missing Plane Wreck and Bodies Reported Found SYDNEY

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 1

The relatives of Captain Tideswell, who was in charge of the mission which arranged transport for Mr. Clarence Nash to Manila, in the…

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Western Agent Found in Wrecked Plane

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 3

Last December Mr. Clarrie Nash of the firm of Lyne and Co., Nyngan, and one of the best known business men in…

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Sailor Comes Ashore Addition to "News" Staff

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 12 July 1946 · page 1

Having just returned from several months in the Javanese political war, Mr. Peter Donald Ferris his joined the reporting staff of the "News…

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Declaring Steamer "Black" Seamen's Union's View

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 20 July 1946 · page 1

The Labor Council's Disputes Committee to-day will consider a request by the Seamen's Union that the liner Katoomba be declared black. The…

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The Unsinkable Lifeboat

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 September 1946 · page 1

A lifeboat that is claimed to be unsuitable, uncapsizeable and self-emptying, has been invented by Mr. H. A. Gaskin, of London. A prototype has successfully passed stringent Board of Trade tesas, and the American authorities have also subjected it to extensive tests. The craft is…

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Nightmare Trip on Ketch. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 27 September 1946 · page 1

Two Australians and 10 Solomon' Island natives who survived a nightmare journey of 1000 miles by sea from the Solomons to…

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Missing Ketch Mystery Solved Wrecked in New Caledonia Group Survivor In Pitiful Condition SYDNEY, Friday Night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 1

With only one of her crew of four still alive, the 45 ft. 15-ton, auxiliary Ketch Nova was wrecked on the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia Group on October 7, nearly five months after she disappeared from the…

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Ketch

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 November 1946 · page 12

Sydney police have asked Noumea to hold an inquiry into the arrival of the launch Nova in New Caledonia. The Nova was wrecked…

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Young Pilot Killed Wrecked Mustang Found Near Mudgee

The Wellington Times · Monday 11 November 1946 · page 7

Wreckage of the R.A.A.F. Mustang fighter which has been missing since Wednesday was found early on Saturday, 22…

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