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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Titanic Wrecks King's Glen Bets

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 14

Backers suffered another body blow when odds-on favorite King's Glen could finish no closer than third in the Three and Four-Year-Old Handicap won by Titanic, with Cisco second…

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Titanic Wrecks King's Glen Bets

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 14

Backers suffered another body blow when odds-on favorite King's Glen could finish no closer than third in the Three and Four-Year-Old Handicap won by Titanic, with Cisco second…

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Mine Drifts Ashore at Moreton Bay

Truth · Sunday 2 June 1946 · page 51

BRISBANE. Saturday.—A drifting mine reported to have been seen floating off Cowan Lighthouse, in the main shipping channel of Moreton…

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Riverina Runner No Ring Wrecker

Truth · Sunday 2 June 1946 · page 4

The most stupendous betting plunge on a suburban track in many years got a touch of stringhalt when former Riverina racer Hellenger finished' an unlucky third behind Balmore and Battle King in…

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Tug To Aid Of Schooner

The Sun · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Signalling that she was leaking badly and needed a tug, the 25-year-old four-masted auxiliary…

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Schooner Sends Out Call for Help

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The four -masted schooner Kermande, from Tasmania, is in trouble outside the Heads. AFTER attempting to enter The RIP early this morning…

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Schooner Sends Out Call for Help

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The four -masted schooner Kermande, from Tasmania, is in trouble outside the Heads. AFTER attempting to enter The RIP early this morning…

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Schooner Sends Out Gall for Help

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The four -masted schooner Ker- mande, from Tasmania, is in trouble outside the Heads. AFTER attempting to enter The RIP early this morning…

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Wreck of Safe

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 2

THIEVES WHO BLEW THE SAFE at the Pennant Hills railway station last night did a thorough job with gelignite…

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Wreck of Safe

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 7

THIEVES who blew this safe at the Pennant Hills railway station last night did a thorough job with, gelignite…

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Salvaging the Wreckage of Europe

Construction · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 6

A New York concrete consultant, Mr. George W. Hoffmann, surveying the wreckage of the bombed cities of Europe, designed portable plants for converting brick and stone rubble into concrete…

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They're off to Australia in an 80-ton schooner

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--Down in Bideford, on the Devon coast, an anxious-eyed woman of 60…

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14 Skeletons in Plane Wreck Australian Badges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The wreckage found in the Baham Mountains, southern Dutch New Guinea, last week is believed to be…

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Novel of the Week Love in a lifeboat Devil on His Trail, by John II and Ward Hawkins. Sydney: Peter Huston

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 19

JOE CHANDLER was a potential killer when he was in his early teens. Conflict over religion between his…

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Lifeboat saved no lives in 40 years Watson's Bay crew will be paid off

The Sun · Sunday 9 June 1946 · page 9

AFTER 40 years, the Watson's Bay rescue lifeboat, Alice Rawson, which his never effected a rescue and never saved a life, is to be paid off--and twelve men of the district are…

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460 Jews in Detention Illegal Entry In Schooner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, June 9 (A.A.P.).—A schooner carryingt 460 illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine was escorted to Haifa yesterday by a…

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Queues, The Bomb, And No Houses Wreck Nerves From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 3

LONDON, June 14.—Monotonous food, the atomic bomb, and mothers-in-law are among the reasons for British nerve hospitals…

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Preference May Be Wrecked

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 3

EX-SERVICEMEN won't be satisfied with Acting-Attorney-General Holloway's assurance that the Federal Labor Government's policy is -- and always has been -- to give preference to soldiers…

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Dutch Steamer Strikes Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 June 1946 · page 1

LONDON, June 16 (A.A.P.).—The Netherlands steamer Meerkerk, of 8,000 tons, travelling from Rotterdam to Australia struck a mine near…

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50 Die in Tornado Buildings Wrecked, Huge Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Canada's freak five-minute tornado, which is believed to have killed at least 50 people and injured hundreds, also--…

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