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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1946

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Plane Crashes Into Mountain Peak Charred Bodies In Wreckage Rescue Party's Perilous Climb

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 5

HONGKONG, Friday.--Four charred bodies were found in the wreckage of an R.A.F. Dakota which crashed on a peak on Lantao Island, off the…

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Plane Crashes Into Mountain Peak Charred Bodies In Wreckage Rescue Party's Perilous Climb

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 5

HONGKONG, Friday.--Four charred bodies were found in the wreckage of an R.A.F. Dakota which crashed on a peak on Lantao Island, off the…

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Spectre Wrecks Inn As Watchers Prepare Trap for Ghostly Vandal

The World's News · Saturday 30 March 1946 · page 3

Do you believe in ghosts? Of course not...there must be some simple explanation for the "thing" people call the Sorrowing Woman of St. Anne's. Perhaps you can explain her away... the weird unseen vandal that holds England's oldest inn to ransom. If you can, you will have accomplished more than the accepted psychic experts—for they are still trying…

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Wreckage Sighted by Search Planes

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 March 1946 · page 6

PERTH, Sat.--The crew of a plane searching for the missing Lancastrian, overdue from Colombo to Australia, yesterday sighted floating wreckage 185…

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Court Sequel to Wreck of Robin May

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 6

The foundering of the launch Robin May on May 15 last year had a sequel today in the Probate Court, when…

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Court Sequel to Wreck of Robin May

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 6

The foundering of the launch Robin May on May 15 last year had a sequel today in the Probate Court, when…

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Court Sequel to Wreck of Robin May

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 6

The foundering of the launch Robin May on May 15 last year had a sequel today in the Probate Court, when…

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Court Sequel to Wreck of Robin May

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 3

The foundering of the launch Robin May on May 15 last year had a sequel today in the Probate Court, when…

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Nazis Wreck Czech School

The Sun · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.--Outrages by the German Werewolf organisation in the former Sudeten territory of Czechoslovakia are…

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Boxing Heavy Rights Wreck Narvo

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 23

A capacity house at the Stadium on Saturday night saw heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (12.6) batter footballer Herb Narvo (13.81)…

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Boxing Heavy Rights Wreck Narvo

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 23

A capacity house at the Stadium on Saturday night saw heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (12.6) batter footballer Herb Narvo (13.84)…

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Boxing Heavy Rights Wreck Narvo

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 23

A capacity house at the Stadium on Saturday night saw heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (12.6) batter footballer. Herb Narvo (13.81)…

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Boxing Heavy Rights Wreck Narvo

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 23

A capacity house at the Stadium on Saturday night saw heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (12.6) batter footballer Herb Narvo (13.81)…

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Boxing Heavy Rights Wreck Narvo

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 23

A capacity house at the Stadium on Saturday night saw heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (12.6) batter footballer Herb Narvo (13.81)…

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Boat Ashore with Explosive Cargo

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Loaded with 300 tons of ammunition, the naval lighter A.B. 1677 went aground about 100 yards off the seaside suburb of Altona today…

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Boat Ashore with Explosive Cargo

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Loaded with 300 tons of ammunition, the naval lighter A.B. 1677 went aground about 100 yards off the seaside suburb of Altona today…

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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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10 Tons of Rock Crash Through Roof Man Badly Hurt As Home Is Wrecked Planes Stopped; Rivers Overflow

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

TEN tons of rock crashed through the roof of a house at Newcastle Bogey Hole today, seriously injuring Alexander Stevens (60)…

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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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Landslide Through Roof Man Hurt As Home Is Wrecked; City Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

TEN tons of rocks crashed from a cliff face through the roof of a house at Newcastle Bogey Hole today, seriously injuring Alexander Stevens (60). THE rock had been loosened by rain driven before a gale which…

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