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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1938

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Wreck at Darwin Crew Escape Darwin

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 December 1938 · page 1

A ground party set out from Darwin to the spot where the Vickers Wellesley plane was forced down. It is understood that a later party…

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Was It Ulm's 'Plane Wreckage Found on Ocean Bed HONOLULU

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 December 1938 · page 2

A Phillipino fisherman, diving to the depth, found the wreckage of an aeroplane partly, buried in the ocean bed, 38 miles north-west of here. It…

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Wrecked Bomber Salvage Declared Impossibel MELBOURNE

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 20 December 1938 · page 1

Messages received by the Air Board indicate that it will be impossible to salvage the stranded Vickers WEllesley bomber which made a forced landing…

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Heavy Sedan Wrecked After Blowout Well-known Leeton Men Uninjured

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 December 1938 · page 6

WIDELY-KNOWN area arch-ardist, Mr. Chris Crowe, of Farm 339. Leeton, and his son Jim, were uninjured when the…

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British Steamer Sunk Italian Bombers in Spain Barcelona

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 December 1938 · page 1

The British steamer Stancroft was sunk by Italian bombers during the first of two raids on the city, suburbs and port of Barcelona. There were no…

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Urana Wrecked

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 30 December 1938 · page 4

Struck by a windstorm on Saturday afternoon, the town of Urana was practically wrecked. Almost every building in the town was…

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British Steamer Bombed Crew Take to Boats Gibraltar

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 December 1938 · page 1

The British steamer Marionga with a crew of 30, bound from Oran to Barcelona with a general cargo, wirelessed that it had been bombed…

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