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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941

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London Now City Of Ruin And Destruction Thousands Still Clearing City of Bomb Wreckage London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1941 · page 2

The City of London is a spectacle of shattered ruin. Thousands of civilian and official workers are still clearing away the debris of Sunday night's smashing onslaught, when the Germans tried to fire the city…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Queensland E. & A. STEAMER. Sailed Brisbane. Gibbs, Bright & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 3

Fields Wholesale Meat Pty., Ltd., 66 crops 98 hinds fr beef W. Land, 59 ribs and ponies fr beef Redbank Meatworks Pty., Ltd., 13 cs end…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales Amended. Burns, Philp Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 2

S Shippers, 1 cs brake lining, 5 cs confectionery, 10 cs cocoa, 19 cs ink, 1836 sks flour (44 tons), 12 rolls 2 bells steel wire, 3 cs cherries,…

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Great German Seaport in Flames Bremen Paid Back For London Ruin 20,000 Fire-bombs in an Hour Docks, Railways, Air Plant Wrecked LONDON

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 1

Terrible punishment was inflicted on the great German seaport of Bremen last night, when the Royal Air Force showered docks and harborside factories with 20,000 incendiary bombs in the first hour of a 3 12…

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Wrecked by Ronalla; Hoop "Axed"

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1941 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—"I've never sent out fitter horses in my life that ran as badly as Ronalla did in to-day's Hurdle…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Queensland K.P.M. STEAMER. Soiled Brisbane. Dagety & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 3

Qland. Co-op. Bacon Assn., Ltd., 5 cs, 4 crts hams, 8 cs bacon, 1 crt small goods. Waratah Cheese Mfg. Co., Ltd., 20 cs cheese. Preserved Food Products Pty., Ltd., 72 cs…

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Steamer Kwang Yuan U.S. Court Decision

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 2

In the United States Supreme Court recently, judgment was given in an action in which the Chinese Government and a…

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Strike on Pilot Steamer. Seamen Dismissed. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 15

Seamen who had refused to take a Queensland pilot vessel to sea unless they received a war bonus have been dismissed to-day. Their vessel was to have taken over from…

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Czech Sabotage Suspected. Nazi Munitions Plant Wrecked. LONDON, Jan. 10. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 13

Big German-controlled munitions works in Policka, in Bohemia, were blown up on Christmas Eve, according to reliable reports reaching London,…

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German Junk Into Bombers. a Use for Nazi Wrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1941 · page 9

Thousands of British eyes scan the sky daily, watching eagerly the epic battles in the air. We have now seen hundreds of aeroplanes of Hitler's much vaunted Air Force fall like autumn leaves over the English countryside…

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Sioneel, Ring Wrecker Fielders' Flurry To Find Finance

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 3

SIONEEL was backed to NO QUOTE with many of the bookmakers for the Berala Handicap at Randwick yesterday. As much as 11 to 2 was laid against this former…

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Speed Cordon a Man-made Wreck

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1941 · page 45

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People Crushed in Subway Bomb Wrecks Road LONDON

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 1

Terrible scenes occurred in London last night when a high-explosive bomb fell on a subway, hurled the concreted roadway upon people sheltering within it and killed many of them…

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R.A.F. Wrecks Turin Factories London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 1

British bombers last night again struck at Turin, Italy's greatest aircraft production centre. Fire-bombs spread flames through the wreckage of factories blasted by tons of high explosive…

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Unsinkable Lifeboat. Swedish Invention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 5

An unsinkable ship's lifeboat of the pontoon type, entirely covered and built of steel, has been successfully tested in Sweden, reports the Swedish International…

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Liner Manhattan Ashore

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1941 · page 2

A New York message states that the United States Lines Co.'s liner Manhattan (24,289 tons gross) is ashore at Lake Worth…

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Hold-up of French Steamer. No Protest to Britain. Montevideo, Jan. 14. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 12

The French steamer Mendoza (8,199) tons) is reported to be returning to Montevideo after having been stopped by a British warship off the coast of…

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French Steamer Returns to Montevideo. London, Jan. 15. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 8

The French steamer Mendoza (8,199 tons), which returned to Montevideo after being intercepted off Uruguay by a British warship, anchored in the harbour shortly before…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. Port Steamer. sailed Sydney. Gibbs, Bright & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

H. Little & Co., 22 ores tv pork, 4O46 crcs fr lamb, 105 bgs lamb. hearts, 61 bgs sheep hearts; 6 bgs beet tongues, 58 bgs beef livers, 3 cs 15…

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Buried in Wreckage 11½ Hours London

The Sun · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

After he had been buried for 11½ hours, during which chloroform was administered to him and preparations…

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