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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Homes Wrecked by Strike Mobs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 11

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Fourteen homes of non-strikers were wrecked and two youths wounded during a weekend…

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Homes Wrecked by Strike Mobs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 11

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- Fourteen homes of non-strikers were wrecked and two youths wounded during a weekend…

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Crossing Victim Jammed in Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 11

Police, ambulance, and railway officials worked for four hours yesterday in heavy rain to extricate the body of a man from the wreckage of his motor lorry, which had come into…

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New Turbine Steamer Devon. Due Sydney

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

Bound from England to Australia, the new turbine steamer Devon, of the Federal Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., is due to arrive at Sydney on…

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On The Land Wheat Scheme May Be Wrecked Federation Decisions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The proposed wheat stabilisation scheme would be wrecked unless the agreement enteied into with the…

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Lifeboat House Goes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--One of England's oldest lifeboat houses was let yesterday to be turned into a milk bar, with the provision that pin…

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Lifeboat House Goes

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.--One of Eng- land's oldest lifeboat houses was let yesterday to be turned into a milk bar, with the provision that pin…

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Australian Buys Schooner To Sail Home From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON, April 26.—Despairing of obtaining normal air or sea passages to Australia, Edwin Cross, of Western Australia, has bought…

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Wardrobe As Home-wrecker

Truth · Sunday 28 April 1946 · page 21

AN argument over a wardrobe broke up a marriage, according to a story told to Mr. Justice Nicholas in the Divorce Court on…

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Ellerman & Bucknall Line Fast New Cargo Steamer

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 1

One of the first post-war passenger and cargo liners for the Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co. Ltd., the City of Carlisle, has just been completed by Messrs. Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd. Being an adaptation of a war-time design…

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Airman to Sail Ketch From Darwin to Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 5

DARWIN, Thursday.--Ray Parer, the famous airman, who, in 1920, made the second England-Australia flight, will sail a 45-foot ketch from Darwin to Sydney…

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London Wrecked and Looted in Infamous Sectarian Riots

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 13

WHATEVER his faults, the average Englishman can claim with justification today that he is tolerant in matters of religion. But it was not always so. Little more than a century and a half ago-- in June, 1780-- feeling in London between Protestants and Catholics reached such a pitch of bitterness that it eventually flared into open rioting. The…

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London Wrecked and Looted in Infamous Sectarian Riots

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 13

WHATEVER his faults, the average Englishman can claim with justification today that he is tolerant in matters of religion. But it was not always so. Little more than a century and a half ago-- in June, 1780-- feeling in London between Protestants and Catholics reached such a pitch of bitterness that it eventually flared into open rioting. The…

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London Wrecked and Looted in Infamous Sectarian Riots

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 13

WHATEVER his faults, the average Englishman can claim with justification today that he is tolerant in matters of religion. But it was not always so. Little more than a century and a half ago-- in June, 1780-- feeling in London between Protestants and Catholics reached such a pitch of bitterness that it eventually flared into open rioting. The…

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London Wrecked and Looted in Infamous Sectarian Riots

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 13

WHATEVER his faults, the average Englishman can claim with justification today that he is tolerant in matters of religion. But it was not always so. Little more than a century and a half ago -- in June, 1780-- feeling in London between Protestants and Catholics reached such a pitch of bitterness that it eventually flared into open rioting. The…

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London Wrecked and Looted in Infamous Sectarian Riots

Daily Mirror · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 13

WHATEVER his faults, the average Englishman can claim with justification today that he is tolerant in matters of religion. But it was not always so. Little more than a century and a half ago-- in June, 1780-- feeling in London between Protestants and Catholics reached such a pitch of bitterness that it eventually flared into open riotine. The…

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Stolen Ketch Sighted by Plane Off W. A. Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 May 1946 · page 5

PERTH, Sat.--A 48ft. ketch which was stolen last night from North Wharf, Fremantle, was sighted today by a searching plane 40 miles north and eight miles off the coast…

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Lea Ruche Wrecks H.p. Hopes Beat Only One Home

Truth · Sunday 5 May 1946 · page 10

Backed from 7/4 to even money, Lea Ruche caused a sensation when she beat only one runner home in the Harold Park Stake last light…

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Stolen Ketch Pursued Plane Chartered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 3

PERTH, Sunday.—Pursued by plane and launch, a 48ft ketch, stolen from Fremantle, has been located, but not yet regained by the…

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No Trace of Stolen Ketch

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 17

PERTH, Tuesday.--An extensive coastal search yesterday revealed no trace of the 48ft. ketch Manakoora, which…

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