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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Bad Luck Cost Ketch Win

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

HOBART, Friday. -- Bad luck robbed the ketch, Horizon, of an outright win by at least'24 hours in the Sydney to Hobart…

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Wanted to "Wreck the Place": Now in Gaol

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 23

"I HAVE been drinking metho and plonk. I am a rat and I want to be put in the Reception House." Thus, according to the police at Central Court last Wednesday,…

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Two More Mines Washed Ashore in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 13

INNISFAIL, Tuesday. -- Two mines which came ashore in the vicinity of Cowley Beach have been exploded by a naval demolition squad…

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Pilot Steamer Saves Launch

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 5

A disabled launch was taken in tow by the pilot steamer Captain Cook this afternoon when it was in danger of being swept on to rocks at Little Bay, near Malabar…

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Steamer Short of Fresh Water

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

The steamer Tyndareus, 10,000 tons, will come into Sydney Harbour this morning to take on between 400 and 500 tons of fresh water…

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Launch Rescued by Pilot Steamer Crew Of Four Seasick Close to Rocks When Aid Came

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

THE pilot steamer, Captain Cook, this afternoon rescued a disabled 40ft. launch only 350 yards from jagged rocks off Little Bay Point…

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Launch Rescued by Pilot Steamer Crew Of Four Seasick Close to Rocks When Aid Came

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

THE pilot steamer, Captain Cooky this afternoon rescued a disabled 40ft. only 350 yards from jogged rocks off Little Boy Point…

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Launch Rescued by Pilot Steamer Crew Of Four Seasick Close to Rocks When Aid Came

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

THE pilot steamer Captain Cook, this afternoon rescued a disabled 40ft. launch only 350 yards from jagged rocks off Little Bay Point…

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Storm Plays Some Fantastic Tricks Freak Wind Wrecks Farmhouses

The Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

CASINO, Tuesday. -- A freak storm near Casino, with hail, lightning and violent winds, unroofed…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer, Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when it sails…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

"PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer. Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when It sails…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer, Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when it sails…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer. Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when it. sails…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer, Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when it sails…

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Passengers on Steamer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

PERMISSION has been granted for the overseas steamer, Empire Clarendon (7100 tons) to carry 90 interstate passengers when it sails…

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Pilot Steamer Rescues Disabled Launch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 3

Pour men in the 40-foot launch Gull, which became disabled off Little Bay while proceeding from Botany Bay to Sydney yesterday,…

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New Lykes Steamer. Launched at Kearny, U.S.A.

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

Newest addition to the Lykes Brothers cargo fleet, the big, 12,800-ton Doctor Lykes, a Maritime Commission C-3 type was…

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Ketch As Ketch Can, Or It's Yawl Yours

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 4

There was great disappointment in distilled-water circles when we failed to finish last in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race. We should have done even better than second-last if our jib hadn't been carried away near Circular Quay by someone needing the timber…

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Steamer "Arrested"

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1946 · page 3

For the first time in years, a ship has been placed under arrest in Sydney Harbor. The Yugoslav steamer, Aleksander…

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N.z. Sends Ketch on Uranium Hunt

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 January 1946 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sat. -- The New Zealand Government is sending a Public Works Department ketch find uranium deposits in areas in[?]…

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