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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941

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Where The Launch Wanna Foundered

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 2

PICTURE OF GIBBON POINT, near Cronulla, where the 22ft. fishing launch Wanna foundered yesterday. The three men aboard were rescued. Mr. J. Triggs and a friend, who fish from Gibbon Point, saw the accident from a cave in the rocks, and pulled one of the men 30ft. up the cliff face from the surf. His camera earns Mr. J. Marley, of Double Bay, 10s for this picture…

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Where The Launch Wanna Foundered

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 2

PICTURE OF GIBBON POINT, near Cronulla, where the 22ft. fishing launch Wanna foundered yesterday. The three men aboard were rescued. Mr. J. Triggs and a friend, who fish from Gibbon Point, saw the accident from a cave in the rocks, and pulled one of the men 30ft. up the cliff face from the surf. His camera earns Mr. J. Marley, of Double Bay. 10s for this picture…

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Where The Launch wanna Foundered

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 2

PICTURE OF GIBBON POINT, near Cronulla, where the 22ft. fishing launch Wanna foundered yesterday. The three men aboard were rescued. Mr. J. Triggs and a friend, who fish from Gibbon Point, saw the accident from a cave in the rocks, and pulled one of the men 30ft. up the cliff face from the surf. His camera earns Mr. J. Marley, of Double Bay, 10s for this pictures…

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Where The Launch Wanna Foundered

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 2

PICTURE OF GIBBON POINT, near Cronulla, where the 22ft. fishing launch Wanna foundered yesterday. The'' three men aboard were rescued. Mr. J. Trigga and a friend, who fish from Gibbon Point, saw the accident from a cave in the rocks, and pulled one of the men 30ft. up the cliff face from the surf. His camera earns Mr. J. Marley, of Double Bay, 10s for this picture…

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1535 Miles In Lifeboat New York

The Sun · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 3

One lifeboat from the British liner, Britannia, which was sunk by a German sea-raider GOO miles from Dakar on…

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Escaped From Launch Wreck Two Men Trapped As Launch Capsizes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 June 1941 · page 5

When huge waves overturned the 22ft. fishing launch Wanna, off Cronulla yesterday, two of three men on board were trapped and dragged to the bottom before they released themselves…

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Bombers Sink Steamer London

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 2

The Great Western Railway cross-channel steamer, St. Patrick, of 1922 tons, was sunk by dive bombers…

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Dive Bombers Kill 23 in Channel Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Twenty-three lives were lost on Friday in the Irish Sea, when a dive-bomber sank the channel steamer St. Patrick, which was on a trip from Rosslare to Fishguard…

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Dive Bombers Kill 23 in Channel Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Twenty-three lives were lost on Friday in the Irish Sea, when a dive-bomber sank the channel steamer St. Patrick, which was on a trip from Rosslare to Fishguard…

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Dive Bombers Kill 23 in Channel Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Twenty-three lives were lost on Friday in the Irish Sea, when a dive-bomber sank the channel steamer St. Patrick, which was on a trip from Rosslare to Fishguard…

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Dive Bombers Kill 23 in Channel Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Twenty-three lives were lost on Friday in the Irish Sea, when a dive-bomber sank the channel steamer St. Patrick, which was on a trip from Rosslare to Fishguard…

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Dive Bombers Kill 23 in Channel Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Twenty-three lives were lost on Friday in the Irish Sea, when a dive-bomber sank the channel steamer St. Patrick, which was on a trip from Rosslare to Fishguard…

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Sinking Of U.S. Steamer Nazi U-boat Came From Dakar Base

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 15

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- The United States Secret Service has revealed that the German submarine which sank the…

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Sinking Of U.S. Steamer Nazi U-boat Came From Dakar Base

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 15

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- The United States Secret Service has revealed that the German submarine which sank the…

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Sinking Of U.S. Steamer Nazi U-boat Came From Dakar Base

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 15

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- The United States Secret Service has revealed,that the German. submarine which sank the…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales F.B.S. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Birt & Co. Pty., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 2

Harvey, Little & Co., 7 bgs lamb hearts, 31 bgs sheep hearts, 56 bgs beef livers, 7 bgs beef tails, 37 bgs beef tongues, 7 bgs beef hearts, 105…

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Dive-bombing Outrage. Ferry Steamer Sunk; 23 Lives Lost. From Our Own Correspondent and A.A.P. LONDON, June 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 June 1941 · page 12

Even the most war-hardened Britons are incensed by the latest Nazi outrage—the ruthless dive-bombing of the Britain-Ireland passenger steamer St…

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Rodborough to Wreck Ring 3 and 4-Yr-old Hcp. 7f. (2.55)

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 19 June 1941 · page 3

RADICAL: Looked like coming good this season when he finished a god third to Amiable and Flying Knight at Canterbury when…

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Launch Wrecked Off Cronulla

The Observer · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 4

Three men, George Taplin, of Darook Park Road, Cronulla, W. Pike, of Earlwood and G. Winter, of Bondi, set out in a 22ft. fishing…

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One Dead, Nine Hurt in Factory Blast Building Wrecked Employee Thought That "End of the World Had Come"

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 5

ONE man was fatally injured and nine men hurt when a terrific explosion blasted a paint shop shortly before 12 o'clock today at Metters, Ltd., Alexandria…

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