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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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400 Imperilled on Icy Wreck Battered By Arctic Rollers Liner Breaks Up on Rocks

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 4

SEWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--More than 400 persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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400 Imperilled on Wrecked Liner Constantly Battered By Arctic Seas Grim Drama of Alaskan Coast

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 15

REWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--Mote than 400 persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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350 Imperilled on Wrecked Liner Constantly Battered By Heavy Arctic Seas Grim Drama Of' Alaskan Coast

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 15

SEWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--More than 350.persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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350 Imperilled on Wrecked Liner Constantly Battered By Heavy Arctic Seas Grim Drama of Alaskan Coast

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 15

SEWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--More than 350 persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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400 Imperilled on Wrecked Liner Constantly Battered By Heavy Arctic Seas Grim Drama of Alaskan Coast

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 15

SEWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--More than 400 persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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400 Imperilled on Icy Wreck Battered By Arctic Rollers Liner Breaks Up on Rocks

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 4

SEWARD (Alaska), Wednesday.--More than 400 persons are clinging precariously to the wreck of the doomed liner Yukon, aground on the stormbound Alaskan coast…

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25 Still Missing After Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

SEWARD (Alaska), Thursday.--Rescue crews in small boats, working in the glare of searchlights, and braying heavy seas, have rescued all of the surivors from the wrecked liner…

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Ship Survivors Safe Taken From Wreck Grim Drama in Big Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 3

SEWARD (Alaska), Thursday. -- Rescue crews in small boats, working in the glare of searchlights, and braving heavy seas, have rescued all…

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25 Still Missing After Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

SEWARD (Alaska), Thursday.--Rescue crews in small boats, working in the glare of searchlights, and braving heavy seas, have rescued all of the surivors from the wrecked liner…

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25 Still Missing After Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

SEWARD (Alaska), Thursday.--Rescue crews in small boats, working in the glare of searchlights, and braving heavy seas, have rescued all of the surivors from the wrecked liner…

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25 Still Missing After Shipwreck

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

SEWARD (Alaska), Thursday.--Rescue crews in small boats, working in the glare of searchlights, and braving heavy seas, have rescued all of the surivors from the wrecked liner…

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Lifeboat Called to Blaze on Island

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--For the first time in the history of the Royal Lifeboat Institution, a lifeboat was called out on Wednesday night to put…

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Poles Wage War On Wreckers, Killers

Tribune · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 2

WARSAW.—A special commission to fight sabotage and wrecking has been established for Lodz city and province…

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Man Released From Bus Wreckage After One Hour

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 3

CUT FROM WRECKAGE of a bus, which overturned in Bridge Street last night Bernard Lowry, of Glebe Road, Glebe, is carried to a waiting ambulance. Lowry's foot went through a window as the bus overturned, and he was pinned beneath the wreckage for an hour. Rescuers used chisels and hammers to release him…

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Seven Missing in Alaskan Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- A check of passengers and crew lists shows that only seven are missing from the wrecked ship…

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Seven Missing in Alaskan Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- A check of passengers and crew lists shows that only seven are missing from the wrecked ship…

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Seven Missing in Alaskan Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 8

NEW YORK, Saturday. -- A check of passengers and crew lists shows that only seven are missing from the wrecked ship…

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RUSSIA The people lived in wrecked planes TIME

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 20

This week Time's London Bureau cabled: "Russian UNO delegates have been…

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Express Wrecked; 2 Killed

The Sun · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday.-- Two soldiers were killed and eight other persons injured when a fast express from King's…

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N.z. Brides on Monterey Not Allowed Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 5

Two hundred and thirty-two New Zealand brides of American servicemen who arrived in Sydney on the Monterey yesterday were not allowed off the ship. An announcement over the…

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