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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1941

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Sails Lifeboat 2000 Miles, Then Dies London, Sunday (A.A.P.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 3

After a nightmare voyage of 2000 miles across the Atlantic in a lifeboat jammed with panic-stricken Indians and a few Britons, the captain of a torpedoed British steamer died…

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Scout Hall Wrecked. Gordon Troop's Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 April 1941 · page 5

Scouts of the 1st Gordon troop discovered at the week-end that the interior of their hall had been wrecked. It was the sixth time that the hall had been…

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

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 23 April 1941 · page 2

Royal Packet Nav. Co., Ltd., agents. Producers' Co-op. Dist. Society, Ltd., 7 cs cheese, 4 cs honey S Shippers, 5 kegs beef, 20 cs…

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R.A.F. Bombs Wreck Goring's Offices London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 April 1941 · page 3

British bombs have blown the top floors off Reich Marshal Goring's. Air Ministry, Goebbels' "propaganda factory," and other famous Berlin buildings, says the B.B.C…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. R.P. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Nav. Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 3

Mick Simmons, 1 cs sporting goods P.D.S., Ltd., 2 cs custard powder, 4 cs cheese Nestle Milk Co., 3 cs milo…

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

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 29 April 1941 · page 3

Wm. Jacket & Sons, Ltd., 100 sks flour (4 tons) Young & Co., 28 cs assorted jams and tomato juice…

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Steamer Sold For a Floating Hotel

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 April 1941 · page 2

According to a report received from America, the Matson Navigation Co.'s steamer Yale has been sold to a buyer at Puget Sound…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. R.P. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Nav. Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 3

Nock & Kirby, 2 cs paint Thos. Playfair, 16 cs tnd beet dripping P.D.S., Ltd., 5 cs tnd butter, 5 cs honey, 6 cs butter, 2 cs currants, 2 cs…

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Attempts to Exploit Scheme May Wreck if

The Land · Friday 2 May 1941 · page 2

Urging wheat growers to remain loyal to the stabilisation plan, the president (Mr. R. R. Hill) told the annual convention of the Victorian…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. R.P. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 3 May 1941 · page 3

Mick Simmons, 1 cs sporting goods P.D.S., Ltd., 2 cs custafd powder, 4 cs cheese Nestle Milk Co., 3 cs milo…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Victoria. Blue Funnel Steamer. Sailed Melbourne. John Sanderson & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 3

Sundry Shippers, 171 pkgs tyres and tubes, 5454 bgs wheat (456 tons). Godfrey Phillips, Ltd., 39 cs tobacco. Trufood, Ltd., 1280 cs milk powder…

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Iraki Air Base Wrecked British Bombers Strike Swiftly Germans Talk of Air Landings 22 Enemy Aircraft Out Of Action LONDON

The Sun · Monday 5 May 1941 · page 1

British bombers to-day heavily attacked petrol dumps and magazines at Moascar Raschid, the main Iraki aerodrome outside Bagdad…

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Blaze in Hold of Steamer. Firemen's Difficulties

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 14

Wearing special headgear and gas masks, 53 firemen from six city stations fought a fire in the lower hatch of No. 1 hold of a steamer at Walsh Bay for…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales R.P. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Nav. Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 2

Nock & Kirby, 2 cs paint Thos. Playfair, 16 cs tnd beef dripping P.D.S., Ltd., 5 cs tnd butter, 5 cs honey, 6 cs butter, 2 cs currants, 2 cs…

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New South Wales Export Manifests Sydney Amended. R.P. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Royal Packet Nav. Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 7 May 1941 · page 3

Burns, Philp & Co., 6 pkgs knitting wool Fostars Shoes, 3 cs footwear Philips Lamps, 1 ctn valves, 3 pkgs…

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Again in Commission Ex Steamer Canadian Trapper

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

The Spanish steamer Guecho, which was formerly owned by the Canadian Government, and known as the Canadian Trapper,…

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Judge Flays Home Wrecker At Murder Trial

Truth · Sunday 11 May 1941 · page 14

"YOU may think that a scrub bull, or a village tomcat, is a good description of this man Thompson, and that his attitude is worthy of the greatest contempt, and that…

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Silverelda Wrecks Plunge On Cradle Song

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 May 1941 · page 22

Starting at 15 to 1, Silverelda easily beat the odds-on favorite Cradle Song in the first division of yesterday's Nursery Handicap at Canterbury. Silverelda gave trainer G…

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Great Open Spaces Wreck Postmaster's Romance

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 9

The little grey home in the west has no attraction for 27-year-old Ada Bertha Sparr. In 1936 she left her home and her husband in Tarcoon, between Bourke and Brewarrina, in the Far West, and never returned…

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Great Open Spaces Wreck Postmaster's Romance

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 May 1941 · page 9

The little grey home in the west has no attraction for 27-year-old Ada Bertha Sparr, In 193S she left her home and her husband in Tarcoon, between Bourke and Brewarrina, in the Far West, and never returned…

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