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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1945

37 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 2

Wrecked Marriages Good Work by Mothers' Union

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1945 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: Dozens of people faced with the prospect of wrecked marriages have been given advice by file Advice and…

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Magnificent Allied Fleet Puts Troops Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1945 · page 1

TOKYO, Frid.: There was not a single sign of resistance when the magnificent British and U.S. Fleets, including dozens of the…

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First Ashore at Yokosuka Historic Photographs

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 September 1945 · page 4

WITH THE TOKYO FORCE, SUNDAY: The first escort sloop of the British Pacific Fleet to anchor in Japanese waters was…

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Eire Lifeboat Institution to Retain Word "Royal" in Title

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1945 · page 1

DUBLIN, Friday: Representatives of the Eire Royal Nationalist Lifeboat Institution flatly rejected Mr. De Valera's request to drop…

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Amusements "Lifeboat" at Plaza

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 October 1945 · page 4

Starring Tallulah Bankhead, "Lifeboat" will open to-night at the Plaza Theatre, Wagga,and will also be shown to-morrow and Friday nights…

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Mystery Body in Plane Wreckage

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 October 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P): Czech authorities in London are puzzling themselves over the identity of one of the 23 persons…

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Three Missing Shark Boat Wrecked

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 October 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Tuesday: Three men are missing from a 60ft. shark boat which was wrecked in The Rip at the entrance to Port Phillip at 6.30…

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Boat Wrecked in the Rip Three Men Believed Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 October 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.: When a 60ft. shark boat was wrecked in the Rip at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay early this morning…

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Hess—pitiable Wreck Memory Lapses

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 19 October 1945 · page 1

Rudolf Hess, one-time deputy Fuhrer, is now "a gaunt spectre" and a pitiable wreck of the man he once was, according to old friends who…

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War Prisoners From Wrecked Ship

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 October 1945 · page 2

SINGAPORE, Sunday (A.A.P.): Eight hundred prisoners-of-war, front the steamer Takliwa, which went aground and was burned off…

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Royal Navy Ship Wrecked Rescue by R.A.N. VESSEL

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 November 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE. Sunday: H.M.S. [?]s a Royal Navy collier of 4910 [?]s ran on to Bougainville Reef, 100 miles east of Cairns on Friday…

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Protesting Airmen Left Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Monday. (A.A.P.): The troopship Orion sailed yesterday only 20 minutes behind schedule, leaving behind 300…

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"French Leave!" 4000 Ashore at Capetown

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 November 1945 · page 1

CAPETOWN, Tuesday: four thousand Australian and other Service men who, defying orders. took "french leave" from the liner…

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Cattle Truck Conditions on the Orion Mun Who Went Ashore Now Without Money

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: Australian airmen who walked off the liner Orion before it sailed on Sunday, denied to a "Daily Mail"…

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46 Killed in Air Crashes Four R.a.f. Planes Wrecked

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs.: Forty-six persons, many of them servicemen, lost their lives in four R.A.F. plane smashes…

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Three Burned By Chlorine Gas Drum Washed Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 November 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Three men were severely burned by chlorine gas at Lennox Heads, near Balling this afternoon…

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Gale Lashes British Coast Ships Battered: Mines Ashore

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 December 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wed (A.A.P.): A 70 m.p.h. gale swept the British coast yesterday and is continuing unabated…

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