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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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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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12 Perish in Lifeboat Drama In Blizzard Grim Story Bysurvivor

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Tuesday.-- Twelve of the 13 members off the crew of the coastal steamer, Robert G. Gann, perished when the vessel…

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12 Perish in Lifeboat Drama In Blizzard Grim Story Bysurvivor

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Tuesday. -- Twelve of the 13 members of the crew of the coastal steamer, Robert G. Cann, perished when the vessel…

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12 Perish As Blizzard Lashes Open Lifeboat Nova Scotia Coast Epic

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Tuesday.--Twelve of the 13 members of the crew of the coastal steamer, Robert G. Cann, perished when the vessel foundered in the Bay of Fundy during the…

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12 Perish in Lifeboat Drama In Blizzard Grim Story by Survivor

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Tuesday. -- Twelve of the 13 members of the crew of the coastal steamer, Robert G. Cann, perished when the vessel…

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12 Perish in Lifeboat Drama In Blizzard Grim Story by Survivor

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

DIGBY, Nova Scotia, Tuesday. -- Twelve of the 13 members of the crew of the coastal steamer, Robert G. Cann, perished when the vessel…

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Rioters Wreck City Shoe Store in Haiti

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti), Tuesday.--Bands of rioters have quitted a shoe store in the main street of the town, and police, armed with…

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Hirohito Breaks Traditions Inspection Of Wrecked Areas Visits Subjects a Second Time

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 6

TOKIO, Wednesday. -- Wearing a plain business suit, grey overcoat and crushed felt hat, Emperor Hirohito yesterday began a tour of inspection…

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Scheme To Remove Old Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 16

Well-known Sydney diver, Dick Hellings, has prepared a scheme to remove from Maroubra Beach the wreck of the…

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Scheme To Remove Old Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 16

Well-known Sydney diver, Dick Hellings, has prepared a scheme to remove from Maroubra Beach the wreck of the…

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Hirohito Breaks Traditions Inspection Of Wrecked Areas Visits Subjects a Second Time

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 6

TOKIO, Wednesday. -- Wearing a plain business suit, grey overcoat and crushed felt hat, Emperor Hirohito yesterday began a tour of inspection…

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Scheme To Remove Old Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 16

Well-known Sydney diver, Dick Hellings, has prepared a scheme to remove from Maroubra Beach the wreck of the…

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Mission Steamer After Years of War Service, Now Carying Livestock to Pacific Islands

The Land · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

THE little steamer Southern Cross, belonging to the Melanesian Mission, is now, after five years of war service as a unit of the Royal Australian Navy, filling a useful post-war role as a carrier of livestock to islands which the Japanese invaders left stockless…

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News From Poland Poland Organises Against Wreckers

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 5

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

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Nearly Wrecked "Cleo."

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 February 1946 · page 23

RETURNED RAAF boys tell as some funny stories about their part in the Pascal (Bernard Shaw) English film, "Caesar and Cleopatra." It appears they did their best to wreck it. Boys Will be boys!…

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Major Roc Wrecks H.p. Field Hits Favorite on Home Turn

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1946 · page 9

Sensation followed sensation during the running of the final race at Harold Park last night—the Terminus Stake—which culminated in the favorite Polite Miss being interfered with and gaining second place…

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Mutiny Quelled in Detention Camp Prisoners Wreck, Fire Building Several Guards, Firemen Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Handcuffed together and under heavy armed guard, more than 300 prisoners who mutinied and wrecked the Aldershot Glasshouse (detention barracks)…

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Mutiny Quelled in Detention Camp Prisoners Wreck, Fire Building Several Guards, Firemen Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Handcuffed together and under heavy armed guard, more than 300 prisoners who mutinied and wrecked the Aldershot Glasshouse (detention barracks)…

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Board Chief Fears Plan To Wreck Wheat Price Stabilisation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 2

SIR Louis Bussau, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board and first president of the Australian Wheatgrowere' Federation, said yesterday that an influential attempt was being made by a wealthy section of the community that…

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Taxicab Crashes Into Crowd; Seven Injured Baby Pinned Under Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 1

OUT of conlrol after a tyre had burst, a taxi mounted a crowded footpath and mowed down 12 persons in King Street Newtown, this morning. Seven were injured, including a two-years-old girl who was pinned under the taxi for several minutes in her smashed pram. WITH brakes screeching and horn…

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