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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, [?]tons bulk wheat, 6906 bags (53) [?] of wheat. BRITISH STEAMER…

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

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

S Shippers, 8 cs picking bands Pick-Me-Up Condiment Co., 446 cs sauce Foggitt Jones, Ltd., 233 ct[?] fish paste,…

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Wreckers Busy On Army Issue Curtin's Problem

The Sun · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Bitter opponents of the Prime Minister's Mr. Curtin, one - army…

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Nazi Planes Wreck Shops

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--German planes on Saturday afternoon made a savage raid on a town in…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6115 tone bulk wheat, 6906 bags (531 tons) of wheat BRITISH STEAMER…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6115 tons bulk wheat, 6906 bags (531 tons) of wheat. BRITISH STEAMER…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales Oceanic Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Oceanic S.S. Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 6 January 1943 · page 2

S Shippers, 71 bis sheepskins (Complete.) PANAMANIAN STEAMER. Sailed Sydney…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6115 tons bulk wheat, 6906 bags (531 tons) of wheat BRITISH STEAMER…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 8 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6115 tons bulk wheat, 6906 bags (531 tons) of wheat. BRITISH STEAMER…

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Bettered Jap Convoy Gets Troops Ashore Air Battle At Lae

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 1

Japanese troops have forced a landing at Lae from the battered convoy which Allied air forces have attacked constantly at sea and in Lae Harbor for two days. Size of the force which got ashore is…

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Pitiful Wrecks of Buna

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 3

Sitting in a row in a coconut plantation, staring uncomprehendingly at the white faces round them, 20 Chinese coolies…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia British Steamer. Sailed Fremantle. Westralian Farmers, Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6115 tons. bulk wheat, 6906 bags (531 tons) of wheat BRITISH STEAMER…

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New South Wales Matson Steamer. Sailed Sydney [?] S.S. Co. Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 3

S Shippers, [?] bls shearling 49 bls sheep[?] and shearlings, 194 [?] pickled [?] tailors [?]ppings, [?]…

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Japanese Wreck Navy Planes At Pearl Harbor

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 5

ONE OF THE 80 U.S. NAVY PLANES wrecked by Japanese bombs and bullets during the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941…

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Japanese Wreck Navy Planes At Pearl Harbor

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 January 1943 · page 5

ONE OF THE 80 U.S. NAVY PLANES wrecked by Japanese bombs and bullets during the treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941…

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Kattegat and Skagerak Inspection of Wrecks and Wreckage

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

The Danish authorities have during the past summer carried out a number of inspections of wrecks and wreckage in the…

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Vital Burma Bridge Wrecked

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

DELHI, Tuesday.--A communique from US Air Force headquarters states that heavy and medium bombers scored hits…

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"Red Wrecker's" Chance in the Challenge Classic Clash Attracts Real Equine Stars Field Fully Summed Up

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 1

THE A.J.C. Challenge Stakes to be run on Saturday week represents one of the finest fields ever to contest the sprint. It is infinitely superior to that of the Carrington Stakes, which was won last Saturday…

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Fortresses Wreck Rommel's Air Base Big Axis Plane Losses

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.-- The latest reports of the Flying Fortress raid on Castel Benito aerodrome near Tripoli-- the most important in Tripolitania-- show it to have been the most destructive since Rommel retreated from El…

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Wrecked Japanese Bomber

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2

A wrecked Japanese bomber on the landing strip at Buna --evidence of the accuracy of Allied airmen's bombs…

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