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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947

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Ferry Crashes Into Steamer Mishap During Fog Blackout

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 15

IN a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning, the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk, berthed at Walsh Bay…

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Ferry Crashes Into Steamer Mishap During Fog Blackout

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 15

IN a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning, the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk, berthed at Walsh Bay…

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Ferry Crashes Into Steamer Mishap During Fog Blackout

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 15

IN a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning,. the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk, berthed at Walsh Bay…

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Ferry Crashes Into Steamer Mishap During Fog Blackout

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 15

IN a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning, the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk, berthed at Walsh Bay…

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Ferry Crashes Into Steamer During Fog Passengers Escape Injury

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 1

IN a dense fog, which covered the city and harbor early this morning, the Sydney ferry Karingal crashed into the stern of the Dutch steamer Abbekerk, berthed at Walsh Bay. NONE of the 150 workmen going to…

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Sailor ashore in Sydney town

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 May 1947 · page 11

21 GUN SALUTE being fired from flagship Shangri-la as she led the visiting U.S. Task Force through Sydney Heads yesterday morning. CUTTIN A RUG in Hyde Park. Sailor Leland Grizzle, of Virginia, and Alice Lehey, of Darlinghurst…

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Ship Ashore on Island Third Attempt To Refloat Fails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.— The 4,266-ton freighter. Inchkeith, with 50 men on board, is on a mangrove island l8…

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Steamer's Escape

The Sun · Thursday 22 May 1947 · page 1

A coastal steamer, thought to be having' trouble with the steering, narrowly missed running aground near Maroubra…

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Steamer Taiping Going Into Dock

Daily Mirror · Friday 23 May 1947 · page 5

The A. & O. steamer Taiping (4500 tons), when it arrives with passengers from Hongkong on June 30, will enter a dockyard…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

MEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Conspiracy to Wreck Greece Balkan Countries Blamed Commission's Report to Uno

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 May 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.--The Balkan countries are responsible for the guerrilla activities in Greece, says the Balkans Commission of UNO…

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Ketch to Leave on 2-Year World Cruise

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 7

Twenty yachts of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia will form a guard-of-honor when the ketch Kathleen leaves Sydney Harbor on June 7 for a two-year world cruise…

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Chinese Coal Famine Follows Mine Wrecking

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 9

NANKING, Wednesday.--Communist destruction of coal mines had brought about a coal famine in China, Wong Wem-Hao, head of the…

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Chinese Coal Famine Follows Mine Wrecking

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 28 May 1947 · page 9

NANKING, Wednesday.--Communist destruction of coal mines had brought about a coal famine in China, Wong Wem-Hao, head of the…

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Steamer Delayed

The Sun · Saturday 31 May 1947 · page 2

Owing to the bad weather, departure of the Corinthic for New Zealand has been postponed from midnight on Sunday until…

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Wool Tax May Wreck Trade Talks

The Sun · Saturday 31 May 1947 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Friday.--Fate of the Geneva trade talks depends largely on the decision of Congress on the…

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