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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1945

773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 39

Cool Change in City Heavy Rain Later

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 3

Heavy rain fell in the city shortly before midnight last night. In some parts of the city half…

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'Tent Towns' In Storm

The Sun · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 3

Campers in the "tent towns" at Narrabeen, Port Stephens and Lake Macquarie last night weathered a 50- mile- an- hour SW…

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Storm Drenches Theatre Crowds

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 1

Thousands of people returning borne from theatres were wet through by a thunderstorm which burst over Sydney about 11 o'clock last night…

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Southerly Gale Hits Yachts In Ocean Race

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 5

A southerly gale struck the yachts competing in the Sydney-Hobart race when they were 15 miles south of Bermagui yesterday afternoon…

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Storm Scatters Yachts in Race to Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 3

A strong south-south-westerly wind, reaching gale force, struck the nine yachts which left Sydney on Wednesday in the 640-mile…

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Ordeal at Sea 19 Adrift In Gale For Eight Days

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 27 (A.A.P.).— Nineteen Frenchmen drifted for eight days in a three-masted schooner at the mercy of a gale in…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. --The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. --The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Disastrous Gale Sweeping England

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--The gale which is still sweeping the south coast was playing havoc with sea walls last night…

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Gale Gusts Of 90 mph In Channel

The Sun · Saturday 29 December 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--One of the wrost gales for years struck the south-east coast of England…

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Battered by Gale Yacht Quits Race

The Sun · Sunday 30 December 1945 · page 1

BATTERED in the southerly gale and forced to heave to for 38 hours off Montagu Island (near Narooma) the ketch Archina has withdrawn from the Sydney-Hobart yacht race…

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