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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1943

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Beer Strike Urged Schooner Dispute at Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Newcastle Trades Hall Council will be asked to organise a general beer strike to force Newcastle…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 3

Sailed Fremantle. Macdonald, Hamilton & Co., agents. Australian Wheat Board, 6437 bgs wheat…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales E. & A. Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

Sailed Sydney. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., Ltd., Agents. S Shippers, 100 cs and beef…

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N. Guinea Villages Wrecked 1000lb,. Bombs Blast Jap Outpost Defences

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

Allied fighter-planes and bombers on Monday wrecked a cluster of native villages being used as outpost defences for the Jap base, of Lae, New Guinea…

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Obedience To Schooner Ban

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 February 1943 · page 2

In a survey of city and suburban hotels today a Daily Mirror representative discovered that not one of scores…

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Overseas Export Manifests West Australia Steamer. Sailed Fremantle Macdonald, Hamilton & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 26 February 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 6437 bgs wheat Nestle & Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. (Aust.), Ltd., 10,000 cs…

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Jack Tars Ashore

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

WHEN naval ratings--other than those whose homes are there--come ashore at Sydney on liberty they usually…

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New South Wales Blue Funnel Steamer. Sailed Sydney. Gilchrist Watt & Sanderson Ltd. Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

Australian Wheat Board, 625 bags, [?]51 tons bulk wheat (Complete.) BRITISH INDIA STEAMER…

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Wreckers Unlimited An Inspector Price Story

The World's News · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 12

THE big locomotive lurched and leapt through the night, a live, pulsing juggernaut. Its gleaming headlight picked up the shining rails…

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Allied Naval Chief Sees Axis Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

WRAPPED IN an oilskin, Vice-Admiral Harwood (standing, left) surveys hulks of Axis vessels in Benghazi Harbor…

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Allied Naval Chief Sees Axis Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

WRAPPED IN an oilskin, Vice-Admiral Harwood (standing, left) surveys hulks of Axis vessels in Benghazi Harbor…

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Allied Naval Chief Sees Axis Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

WRAPPED IN an oilskin. Vice-Admiral Harwood (standing, left surveys hulks, of Axis vessels in Benghazi Harbor…

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Allied Naval Chief Sees Axis Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

WRAPPED IN an oilskin, Vice-Admiral Harwood (standing, left) surveys hulks of Axis vessels in Benghazi Harbor…

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Workers Expect Schooner Victory

Truth · Sunday 28 February 1943 · page 18

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—General opinion in Trade Union circles today was that the Newcastle "schooner war," which has…

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Mermaids Wreck Records Fish Gasp At Speedy Lasses

Truth · Sunday 28 February 1943 · page 8

SUE HULL and Shirley Hart, two of our speediest mermaids, had the fish gasping at the Domain Baths yesterday as they watched…

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Government May Intervene In Beer Schooner War

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1943 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday. -- Newcastle's beer war over the limitation of schooner sales may be made a Federal Cabinet matter. A full Cabinet meeting will be held on Wednesday, when the…

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Sailor Girls in Training Navy Atmosphere Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1943 · page 4

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA. —"Now, girls, you're not women any more, you're sailors," the recruiting officer said to a group…

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Bombs For Jap Steamer

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1943 · page 3

White splashes show where a second salvo of American bombs has just landed close to a sinking and burning Japanese transport off New Britain. The transport was sighted from the air despite an elaborate attempt to camouflage it…

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Wreckage on Plain of Battle Our War Correspondent, Roderick Macdonald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1943 · page 5

WITH U.S. TANKS IN TUNISIA, Feb. 26 (Delayed).— Wrecked Axis vehicles and German and Italian dead dotted the…

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Commonwealth Export Manifests New South Wales E. &. A. STEAMER. Sailed Sydney. Macdonald Hamilton & Co., Ltd., Agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 3 March 1943 · page 2

S Shippers, 300 cs end beef S Shippers. 1353 cs end beef, 200 bxs butter BRITISH VESSEL…

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