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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941

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Wrecks Secret Gear New York

The Sun · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 4

A works inspector--either a saboteur or a maniac--destroyed 250,000 dollars worth of vital plane…

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Nazi Mine Near Gosford. Washed Ashore From Old field

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 9

A German contact mine which was tound embedded in the sand on the beach at Budgewoi, 23 miles north of Gosford, yesterday morning was…

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"Left Tobruk in a Wreck" Soldier Tells Mother

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 9 April 1941 · page 1

"What happened there is nobody's business but our own, but we came through all right, and that's all that matters."…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Western Australia British India Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Macdonald, Hamilton and Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 3

Peerless Roller Flour Mills, 115 seks flour. Great Southern Roller Flour Mills, 160 seks flour. Atas Macaroni, Ltd., 9 cs macaroni, 4 cs…

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Rathlin a Real Ring-wrecker Vaucluse Handicap, 7 Furlongs.—4.30

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 3

MICAWBER: Failed at Victoria Park last Wednesday and will have to improve on that run to make a showing in Saturday's…

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Red Cross Man Tells of A.I.F. Shipwreck Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 12 April 1941 · page 2

Experiences of members of the A.I.F. who were ship-wrecked on the Libyan coast while on their way to a camp nearer the war front are described in a letter sent by a Red Cross representative in the Middle East…

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Rylstone Proves Real Wrecker

Sydney Sportsman · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 16

HUGE money was won on Rylstone on Saturday. And huge money was lost on him to-day, when he was backed…

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Bombs Wreck Kiel Base R.A.F. Check Reveals Huge Damage Toll London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 2

The R.A.F. in its smashing raid on the German naval base at Kiel did terrific damage to the Deutschwerke building yard, where submarines are under construction…

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Hand Outstretched for Aid in Bomb Wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 2

RESCUE workers in London come upon the arm of a woman buried in the ruins of a bombed public house in London. She was rescued alive…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports South Australia Ellerman & Bucknall Steamer. Sailed Adelaide. Elder, Smith and Co., Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 3

Central Wool Committee, 375 bls wool on skins, 3656 big greasy wool, 1 bg wool. Fight Forces Comforts Fund, 100 cs comforts and woollens…

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First Artillery Shot. Australians Wreck Nazi Tank. From the Commonwealth Official War Correspondent. Athens, April 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 11

The first artillery shot fired in actual conflict between Australians and Germans in this war came from an Australian field-gun on Saturday…

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SWIMS 25 Miles with News of Wreck on Reef Suva (Fiji), Wednesday (A.A.P.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 3

A half-caste Fijian swam and drifted 25 miles to Vanue Levu, the northernmost of the two main islands of Fiji, with news of a wreck. He told how the nine-ton…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. K.P.M. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 3

Producers' Co-op. Dist. Society, Ltd., 7 cs cheese, 'I cs honey S Shippers, 5 kegs beef, 20 cs oranges, 7 cs cocoa, 1 pkgs calico bags…

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Australians Die in Bombed Hostel Sleeping Soldiers Raid Victims Men Search Frantically For Mates In Wreckage LONDON

The Sun · Friday 18 April 1941 · page 2

Numbers of Australian servicemen were killed or injured when a heavy bomb scored a direct hit on the hostel in which they were sleeping during London's…

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Steamer Lahn Now Registered in Buenos Aires

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 2

The German steamer Lahn, which escaped from Sydney Harbour at the beginning of the present war and proceeded to a…

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Don't Let Jitters Wreck Your Health Old Bogyman Fear is playing on our nerves. But we can't fight him with silly mottoes about "stiff upper lips" and "chins up."

The World's News · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 5

CLOSE on the heels of incessant hurry as to cause nervous conditions that lead to digestive upsets and stomach…

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Bomb Wrecks St. Paul's Crypt London Show Places Lie in Ruins Army Veterans And Nurses Killed In Hospital LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 3

Irreparable damage was done to St. Paul's Cathedral during Wednesday night's ferocious air raid on London. A bomb burst in the crypt among historic…

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Axis Wrecks Litter Desert Tobruk Beats Grim German Attacks B.U.P. (Exclusive)—CAIRO

Truth · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 15

THE WESTERN Desert is littered with the wreckage of Axis tanks and armored cars as British, Australian, New Zealand and South African airmen ceaselessly blast the enemy's thin communication line from the…

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Rathlin Wrecks Ring - Pros. Pounce on Pelf

Truth · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 2

PROFESSIONAL punters bet with gay abandon on Rathlin, winner of yesterday's mile Woollahra Handicap at Randwick. Though there was a field of 15 fit horses in the race, this well-informed coterie readily accepted as little as 5/2 and 3/1 about the chestnut son of Glenariff-Tibbie…

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London's Agony: Night of Ruin Greatest Raid Of War Robs World Of Priceless Treasures Wreckage Includes St. Paul's Crypt Famed Churches LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 3

Great heaps of smoking masonry are all that's left of the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral after Nazi bombs blew the floor of it out in Wednesday night's raid on London -- the most savage air assault of the war…

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