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Floods & storms, 1951

1,485 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 75

Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 3

A spokesman for the Flood Relief Committee said last night that the State Government would financially assist…

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Nine Men Rescued After Sea Ordeal 15 Days in Gales: Ship Put Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.-- A disabled ketch, with a crew of nine, grounded today on Redhead Beach, 12 miles south of…

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Nine Men Rescued After Sea Ordeal 15 Days In Gales: Ship Put Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed. -- A disabled ketch, with a crew of nine, grounded f o d a y obi Redhead Beach, 12 miles south of…

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Nine Men Rescued After Sea Ordeal 15 Days In Gales: Ship Put Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--A disabled ketch, with a crew of nine, grounded today on Redhead Beach, 12 miles south of…

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Nine Men Rescued After Sea Ordeal 15 Days in Gales: Ship Put Ashore

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.-- A disabled ketch, with a crew of nine, grounded today on Redhead Beach, 12 miles south of…

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Exhausted men stagger to beach near Newcastle. Craft blown 300 miles to sea after keel lost in gale. Crew Adrift 13 Days; Ketch Ordeal

The Sun · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 1

Eight men and a youth staggered ashore exhausted at Redhead Beach, near Newcastle, today after being adrift for 13…

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Parish Hall Blown Down By Gale

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 2

A GALE force wind which swept the south coast of New South Wales last week totally wrecked the 40-years-old brick hall of St. Francis Xavier's Church, Wollongong…

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Gale Blows Off Roof Of Orphanage Dormitory

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 5

EXTENSIVE damage was caused to Monte Pio Orphanage, Campbell's Hill, by the gale which swept the Diocese of Maitland last week. Three-quarters of the…

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Village Swept Away in Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 10

TEHERAN, Fri. (A.P.). --Floods following heavy rains have swept away the Iranian village of…

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Village Swept Away in Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 12

TEHERAN, Fri. (A.P.). --Floods following heavy rains have swept away the Iranian village of…

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Village Swept Away in Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 10

TEHERAN, Fri. --Floods following heavy rains have swept away the Iranian village of…

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Village Swept Away in Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 10

TEHERAN, Fri. (A.P.). --Floods following heavy rains have swept away the Iranian village, of…

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Freighter's fuel shortage blamed on gale, seas Ordeal of Crew End of the Ordeal

Truth · Sunday 19 August 1951 · page 3

When the battered 7000-ton freighter Stan-firth was towed into Sydney Harbor yesterday afternoon after being adrift for nine days, nobody seemed anxious to explain how the vessel came to…

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54 Now Dead in Jamaica Storm

The Sun · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 5

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Sunday.-- Deathroll in the hurricane which swept Jamaica on Friday night has risen to an estimated 54…

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Vic. Flood Traps 12 On Housetops

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Two Array ducks u are going to the rescue of three families stranded on rooftops in the" flooded village of Birregurra, 83 miles south-west of…

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Vic. Flood Traps 12 On Housetops

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- Two Army ducks are going to the rescue of three families stranded on rooftops in the flooded village of Birregurra, 83 miles south-west of…

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Vic. Flood Traps 12 On Housetops

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- Two Army ducks are going to the rescue of three families stranded on rooftops in the flooded village of Birregurra, 83 miles south-west of…

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Vic. Flood Traps 12 On Housetops

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 August 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- Two ducks are going to the rescue of three families stranded on rooftops in the flooded village of Birregurra, 83 miles south-west of…

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Cyclone Warning to Ships

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 2

The Weather Bureau today warned shipping of cyclone conditions off the south - east…

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Cyclone Warning to Ships

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 August 1951 · page 2

The Weather Bureau today, warned shipping of cyclone conditions off the south east…

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