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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

483 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 25

Youths Stole Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thomas Grady (17) and Robert Gruchy (19) were each sentenced to three months' gaol at Glasgow for stealing a…

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Youths Stole Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Thomas Grady (17) and Robert Gruchy (19) were each sentenced to three months' gaol at Glasgow for stealing a…

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Sailors Souvenir Wreckage From Italian Submarine

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 2

CHEERFUL SAILORS of a British destroyer with the wreckage thrown up by their depth charge…

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Sailors Souvenir Wreckage From Italian Submarine

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 2

CHEERFUL SAILORS of a British destroyer with the wreckage thrown up by their depth charge…

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Sailors Souvenir Wreckage From Italian Submarine

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 2

CHEERFUL SAILORS of g a British destroyer with the wreckage thrown up by their depth charge…

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Sailors Souvenir Wreckage From Italian Submarine

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 June 1943 · page 2

CHEERFUL SAILORS of a British destroyer with the wreckage thrown up by their depth charge…

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Steamer Nankin Captured by Japanese

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 25 June 1943 · page 2

News has now been released of the capture of the Eastern and Australian steamer Nankin which was captured by an enemy raider…

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Burma Plunge Wrecked by Last Port

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 June 1943 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Punters commenced the day disastrously at Moonee Valley this afternoon when the rank…

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Gelignite Explosions Wreck Doctor's Garage

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 June 1943 · page 2

KALGOORLIE, Sat.--Bombs were exploded in the garage at Dr. Maurice Gorman's home today. Dr. Gorman's home is at the corner of McDonald Street…

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Home-wrecking Meals

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 June 1943 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Because of a firewood shortage, some Brisbane families have had to burn furniture and household fittings…

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Rail Disaster Inquest How Crowded Bus Was Wrecked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1943 · page 7

ALBURY, Monday.—The collision between a bus and a light engine and tender at a levelcrossing near Wodonga on the…

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Colliery Wreckers Executed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1943 · page 6

LONDON. June 28 (A.A.P.).—Newspapers which have reached London from Belgium report that three Belgians and one Frenchman have been…

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Too Many on Wrecked Bus

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 July 1943 · page 4

ALBURY, Wednesday.--Overcrowding of a bus, in which 25 people were killed in a level-crossing smash near Wodonga on…

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Some Men Wrecked By War

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 July 1943 · page 7

Mr. George Grimston, State welfare officer for the R.S.S.I.L.A., said today that some men could not stand the…

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Shop Wrecked By Explosion

The Sun · Saturday 3 July 1943 · page 3

PERTH, Saturday.-- A mysterious explosion completely blew out the front of a fruit shop in Cottesloe, a few miles…

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Landing Parties Trick Jap Garrison U.S. Destroyer Sneaks Troops Ashore for Daring Reconnaissance

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 July 1943 · page 2

A week before the American invasion of Jap-held Solomon Islands (on Wednesday) reconnaissance units sneaked ashore to prepare the way. Osmar White, Daily Telegraph war correspondent,…

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'Wrecking Docks' Sicily Move Reported

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 July 1943 · page 5

LONDON, July 4 (A.A.P.).— Reconnaissance reveals that the Italians are blowing up harbour installations at Trapani, on the…

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British Land, Wreck Crete Airfields

The Sun · Tuesday 6 July 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.-- British troops on Sunday night launched a series of swift raids on the island of Crete where they wrecked Germ an airfields, destroyed grounded planes and burned a large quantity of petrol…

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New Blows in Battle of Sicily Mighty Allied Air Offensive Liberators, Fortresses Wreck Important 'Drome

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--All the might of the Allied air forces in North Africa has been thrown into the Battle of Sicily, and the island is fast becoming more of a liability than a defensive asset to the Italians…

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New Blows in Battle of Sicily Mighty Allied Air Offensive Liberators, Fortresses Wreck Important 'Drome

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--All the might of the Allied air forces in North Africa has been thrown into the Battle of Sicily, and the island is fast becoming more of a liability than a defensive asset to the Italians…

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