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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

617 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 31

"Missing" Dutch Schooner To Be Returned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Vina, which put into Thursday Island on July 22 with nine Indonesians on board, was found to…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Governor's Wife Steps Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 3

MRS. NORTHCOTT, wife of the new Governor of N.S.W.(Lieut.-General Northcott), photographed today at Man…

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Stop Press Steamer Sunk

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 32

NEW YORK, Thursday.--The steamer American Farmer was sunk in a collision with the freighter American Trader, about…

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Stop Press Steamer Sunk

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 32

NEW YORK, Thursday.--The Steamer American Farmer Was Sunk in a collsion with the freighter American Trader about…

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Wrecked Cutter's Crew Rescued

The Sun · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Three men were rescued yesterday from Balala Island, 30 miles from Ceduna, where their 28-foot…

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Australiana Steamer's Service

The World's News · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 19

A FTER 61 years' Government.service, the steamer Otter is to be retired. In her time the Otter has carried thousands of tons of goods to…

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91 Died In This Bomb Wreckage

The Sun · Monday 5 August 1946 · page 1

GENERAL VIEW SHOWING the vast extent of the recent bomb damage caused by Jewish terrorists at the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, in which 91 died and many were injured. Further violence is threatened if Britain imposes new searches and curfews on the Jewish community…

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Renamed P. & O. Steamer for Australian Trade

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 August 1946 · page 2

THE Empire Paragon, bought recently by the P. and O. Company from the British Ministry of Transport, has been renamed…

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Editorial Wrecking a Nation by Design

The Sun · Thursday 8 August 1946 · page 1

PLAIN speaking by Mr. Baddeley about the coal shortage shows to what a brink of disaster the nation has been dragged behind the miners…

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Child (3) Travels From India on Steamer Alone

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 August 1946 · page 9

TRAVELLING alone from India to make her home with her grandparents in Sydney, little Leilane Radford (3) was among the 58 children…

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Child (3) Travels From India on Steamer Alone

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 August 1946 · page 9

TRAVELLING alone from India to make her home with her grandparents in Sydney, little Leilane Radford (3) was among the 58 children…

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Child (3) Travels From India on Steamer Alone

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 August 1946 · page 9

TRAVELLING alone from India to make her home with her grandparents in Sydney, little Leilane Radford (3) was among the 58 children…

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Child (3) Travels From India on Steamer Alone

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 August 1946 · page 9

TRAVELLING alone from India to make her home with her grandparents in Sydney, little Leilane Radford (3) was among the 58 children…

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real life court dramas At lighthouses their love was wrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 August 1946 · page 37

IT was at the lighthouse on Solitary Island that Norma Jess Tulk (formerly Lee), 39, and her husband, Wilfred Reginald Tulk, 48, began to drift apart. It was at the lighthouse at…

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Plane Search For Ketch

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 August 1946 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday. -- A flying boat has left Cairns to search for an auxiliary ketch adrift in Torres Strait…

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