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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941

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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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Ten Injured in Huge Factory Explosion Building Wrecked Employee Thought That "End of the World Had Come"

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 5

TEN persons were injured, two critically, when a terrific explosion blasted a paint shop shortly before 12 o'clock today at Metters Ltd., Alexandria. The injured people were thrown in all directions…

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Ten Injured in Huge Factory Explosion Building Wrecked Employee Thought That "End of the World Had Come"

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 5

TEN persons were injured, two critically, when a terrific explosion blasted a paint shop shortly before 12 o'clock today at Metters Ltd., Alexandria. The injured people were thrown in all directions…

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Gale Wrecks Trees. Fences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 June 1941 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--A gale of cyclonic force began shortly after midnight this morning and raged, fiercely for two and a half…

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Gale Wrecks Trees, Fences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 June 1941 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--A gale of cyclonic force began shortly after midnight this morning and raged fiercely for two and a half…

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Gale Wrecks Trees, Fences

Daily Mirror · Saturday 21 June 1941 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.--A gale of cyclonic force began shortly after midnight this morning and raced fiercely for two and a half…

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Queer fish washed ashore at Kurnell Rare Fish Washed Up

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 June 1941 · page 8

An 11ft. 6in. oar fish, one of the rarest fish in Australian waters, was washed up on Kurnell beach yesterday. The oar fish is brilliantly…

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Shipwreck Relief Society of N.Z. Annual Meeting

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 June 1941 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Shipwreck Relief Society of New Zealand was held recently. Mr. Justice Kennedy presided…

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Mystery End To Turkish Steamer LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 1

The Turkish merchant ship Rifha has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean by an…

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Turkish Steamer Torpedoed. Ankara, June 26. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 10

An unidentified submarine [?]orpedoed the Turkish merchantman Rif[?] (not listed in Lloyd's). Of the 201 passengers 173 were drowned…

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Australian Steamer Sunk By Nazi Raider LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 29 June 1941 · page 1

The destruction of an Australian ship -- the Rabaul (5618 tons) -- with loss of life, is revealed by an Admiralty communique announcing the interception of a Nazi prison ship, the Alstertor,…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney; Macdonald, Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 3

Producers' Co-op. Dist. Scty., 12 bxs butter C. G. Kellaway& Sons, 60 crts bacon, 25 cs margarine…

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Vanishing Isle Sighted by Schooner

The Sun · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 3

Captain John D. Vosper, master of a Canadian tops'l schooner now in an Australian port, sighted the famous disappearing island of…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales British India Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Macdonald, Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 2

Producers' Co-op. Dist. Scty., 12 bxs butter C. G. Kellaway & Sons, 60 crts bacon, 25 cs margarine…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports South Australia British India Steamer. Sailed Adelaide. Macdonald, Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 3

B. Seppelt & Sons, Ltd., 800 cs brandy, 2 hhds brandy, l cs labels, 1 cs wine, 8 hhds wine. Mexico Cereal Co., 800 bgs pearl barley…

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Export Manifests Sydney Federal Branch Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Birt & Co. (Pty.), Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 3

P.M.G.'s Dept., 1 cs stationery Harvey, Little & Co. Pty., Ltd., 13,896 crcs fr lamb, 44 crcs fr tegs, 70 crcs fr mutton, 142 crts lamb livers, 7…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Victoria Burns, Philp Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. Burns, Philp & Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 3

Rudders, Ltd., 6 cs auto parts, 8 cs shafts, 2 cs auto goods, 40 cs plates, 23 cs accumulators, 1 cs equipment, 124 ctns mowers…

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Schooner Brings Timber Cargo

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 5

WILLIAM HARFORD and Roley Geddes, members of the crew of a schooner which has arrived at an Australian port with a cargo of timber from Canada…

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Marriage Is Science analyses the old nursery rhyme about skinny Jack Spratt and his weighty wife to show how fast or slow thyroids or unmatched endocrine glands may wreck more homes than temperament, triangles or mothers-in-law

The World's News · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 6

Jack Spratt could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean. And there probably was…

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High Rank Leaves Trail of Wreckage Rimveil Raid Turned Into Doomben Debacle

Truth · Sunday 6 July 1941 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.—Declared by his army of admirers to be the best of the visiting brigade, and backed to favoritism in a spectacular onslaught…

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