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Floods & storms, 1947

1,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 85

Giant Liner In Atlantic Storm

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday --The liner Queen Elizabeth arrived here today 24 hours late, after battling with a 60-mile-an-hour…

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Tobruk Veteran Dies In Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 8

PARKES, Friday.--A man who survived the siege of Tobruk without injury died last night from injuries suffered during a storm…

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Freak Ice Storm

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1947 · page 2

WINGHAM. Saturday.--Comboyne. 26 miles from Wingham today experienced the most severe hailstorm in the memory…

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Gale of the "Gundagai"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 8

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Storm Tiles Unclaimed Owners Blained

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 5

Many people whose homes had been damaged by the storm on New Year's Day had not yet applied for tiles, the Minister for…

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Navy Racing Help to Grounded Ship Four Corvettes Head Into Cyclone Rough Seas Lash Coast of Q'land

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

BRISBANE,Wednesday. -- Four Australian Navy corvettes are rushing at full speed into a cyclone off the Queensland coast to aid the…

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Navy Racing Help to Grounded Ship Four Corvettes Head Into Cyclone Rough Seas Lash Coast of Q'land

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- Four Australian Navy corvettes are rushing at full speed into a cyclone off the Queensland coast to aid the…

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Signals Cease From Ship in Cyclone Storm Nearing N.S.W. Coastline

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5

Radio signals ceased yesterday from the 250-ton auxiliary schooner Tagua, which had been battling through a cyclone, trying to reach Hervey Bay, central Queensland coast…

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Ship Safe After Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 19

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary trading schooner Tagua (250 tons), which has battled through cyclone-swept…

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Schooner Missing In Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary schooner Tagua (205 tons) is still missing off the Queensland coast and is…

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Schooner Missing In Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary schooner Tagua (205 tons) is still missing off the Queensland coast and is…

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Ship Safe After Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 19

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary trading schooner Tagua (250 tons), which has battled through cyclone-swept…

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Ship Safe After Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 19

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary trading schooner Tagua (250 tons), which has battled through cyclone-swept…

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Ship Safe After Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 19

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary trading schooner Tagua (250 tons), which has battled through cyclone-swept…

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Cyclone Prevents Aid To Sick Light Keeper

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—While the keeper of a lonely lighthouse off the Queensland coast lay dangerously ill to-day, two rescue…

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Queensland Cyclone Moving South Big Sea Running On NSW Coast

The Sun · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1

Moving south the Queensland cyclone hit the New South Wales coast today and big seas…

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Flood Rain in North Cyclone Stops Shipping

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

A cyclone, moving south, has closed the port of Brisbane, stopped air traffic between Brisbane and Sydney, and brought exceptionally heavy rain on the far North…

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Migrants in Storm

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

The 40-year-old steamer Hwalein (3000 tons) which is bringing 400 European migrants to Sydney has been forced to shelter…

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Cyclone Sweeps Away From Sydney-- May Peter Out

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3

Sydney is almost certain to escape the cyclone which lashed the far north coast for nearly 24 hours after sweeping through Brisbane. Inland and coastal northern towns have had the heaviest rain for years, bringing urgently-needed relief from drought…

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Cyclone Strikes North Coast Ships Held Up, Planes Cancelled

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

The fringe of a cyclone which has been moving south along the Queensland coast reached the north coast of New South Wales yesterday…

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