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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952

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Explosion wrecks shop; man's escape

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A man with his clothes aflame, ran from a blazing shop in Elizabeth Street. Surry Hills, late…

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10,000 Mile Voyage in 48ft. Ketch Ends

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1952 · page 3

A 10,000 mile ocean voyage in a 48 foot ketch front Wellington to Boston ended on Munday night. Dr. T. R. A. Davis, 24, his wife, their two sons,…

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Two More Witnesses of H-bomb Explosion "Wrecked Building 18 Miles Away," Says Sailor

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 12 November 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday — Two more purported eye-witnesses' accounts of the American hydrogen bomb explosion in the Pacific, including one which said the explosion blew the top off a…

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Family wrecked on Heads

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: members of the same including a 72-year-old [?] father, were wrecked on [?]…

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Couple in ketch reach island

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Balgowlah grocer-yachtsman Norman Rome and his fiancee, Sylvia Roach, reached Lord…

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All Survive Wrecked Ship

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 1

BEIRUT (Lebanon), Thursday (A.A.P.): All remaining passengers and crew of the wrecked French liner…

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