Trial Flooding of Sydney's New Graving Dock
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 March 1945 · page 3
Sydney's giant new graving dock filling during a trial flooding. It is one of the few installations in the world capable of dry-docking the liner Queen Elizabeth. The dock, the final cost of which will be about £9,000,000, has been built as an…
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The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 March 1945 · page 4
BRISBANE, Sat. -- One ship is in distress in the Coral Sea, and others have been damaged off Port Douglas in a cyclone…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 4
BRISBANE, Sunday.âHeavy rainfall and considerable damage have resulted from a cyclone which has been raging…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 6
BRISBANE, Monday.--A cyclone, raging along the North of Queensland for the past two days, has wrecked the Inkerman railway bridge, linking Brisbane with Cairns, causing damage that will take at least…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 6
BRISBANE, Monday.--A cyclone, raging along the North of Queensland for the past two days, has: wrecked the Inkerman railway bridge, linking' Brisbane with Cairns, causing damage that will take at least…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 6
BRISBANE, Monday.--A cyclone, raging- along the North of Queensland for the past two days, has wrecked the Inkerman railway bridge, linking Brisbane with Cairns, causing damage that will take at least…
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Daily Mirror · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 6
BRISBANE, Monday.--A cyclone, raging along the North of Queensland for the past two days, has wrecked the Inkerman railway -bridge, linking Brisbane with Cairns, causing damage that will take at least…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 2
Last week's Parliamentary rumpus about question time rights of private members was a matter which vitally affected Australian democratic practice. Good came out of the possibility of evil, Mr. Curtin's…
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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 5
BRISBANE, Monday.-- Two ships are racing to the aid of a disabled merchant ship in the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 1
BRISBANE, Monday.—Racing through rough seas, two ships are trying to reach a disabled merchant vessel somewhere in…
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Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 2
News received from Brisbane states that two vessels are racing through rough seas trying to reach a disabled merchant vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →So Much to Remember They had gone their separate ways, but memories of the past came flooding back in the old town
Catholic Weekly · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 10
STEPHEN WARE took a bag from the disabled car, walked the three blocks from, the repair garage to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Konigsberg Flood-gates Are Opened Against Russians
The Sun · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 1
LONDON, Thursday.--In an eleventh-hour attempt to stem the Red assault on the Baltic port of Konigsberg, the Germans have opened the irrigation canal flood gates protecting the outer defences…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 1
BRISBANE, Thursday:—An Allied merchantman which survived the buffeting of boiling seas and a wind which at times…
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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 5
BRISBANE, Thursday.--Although only 30 miles from a sinking ship, an Allied merchantman in the Coral Sea last week could do nothing to aid the stricken vessel…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 12
Steering damaged, oil tanks almost empty, water supplies near exhaustion, an Allied merchantman has struggled into a…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 9
Steering damaged, oil tanks almost empty, water supplies near-exhaustion, an Allied merchantman has struggled into a…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 3
'TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--Searchers yesterday recovered luggage from the guard's van of the stock train which was swept away by flood waters in the recent Inkerman…
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Daily Mirror · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 3
TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--Searchers yesterday recovered luggage from the guard's van of the stock train which was swept away by flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Shock Troops Storm Lower Rhine Strong bridgehead won; Allied sky army lands
The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 March 1945 · page 1
LONDON, Sat. -- Shack troops of Field-Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group have stormed the lower Rhine in assault boats at three places on a broad front. The Rhine crossings ore being supported by 40,000 Allied airborne…
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