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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1944

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Telegraphic News Steamer Bergalia Aground

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 July 1944 · page 1

The Illawarra & South Coast Company's cargo vessel, Bergalia (550 tons) went aground about five miles south of Cape Solander, below Botany Bay…

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135-Ton Raid Balikpapan Oil Centre Wrecked

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 October 1944 · page 1

The oil cracking plant at Balik papan, in Borneo, was wrecked by Allied bombers in a 135-ton raid on Wednesday…

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Fifty Killed Village Wrecked Bomb Dump Explosion LONDON, Monday (A.AP.)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 November 1944 · page 1

Over fifty persons are now known to have been killed and a village wrecked as a result of an R.A.F. dump blowing up near…

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Home-made Steamer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 4

in a ten-day intensive [?] A steamer in which to [?] or to steam vegetable made out of an old sandwich…

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