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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1947

681 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 35

Fallon Talks to A.w.u. of Red Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- "The Australian Workers' Union is pledged to our Australian way of life and to the honesty…

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Fallon Talks to A.w.u. of Red Wreckers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- "The Australian Workers' Union is pledged to our Australian way of life and to the honesty…

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Schooner Missing In Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary schooner Tagua (205 tons) is still missing off the Queensland coast and is…

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Schooner Missing In Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The auxiliary schooner Tagua (205 tons) is still missing off the Queensland coast and is…

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Dutch to Load Own Steamer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 2

Dutch soldiers, volunteer Dutch nationals and the crew will load cargo for the Dutch East Indies aboard the steamer Tjibesar (10,000…

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Bernborough Will Be Ashore Here

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 9

Bernborough will he brought ashore in Sydney next week while the vessel on which he is being shipped to America is in…

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Pilot Steamer Sheltering

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1

High waves at the river mouth prevented a pilot launch from sailing further than Pinkenba, and the pilot steamer Matthew…

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Federal Plan For Wheat Stabilisation Wrecked

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 16

A PLEA to the Commonwealth Government to recast its wheat stabilisation plans has been made by the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers' Association. This follows the news from…

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Good Health Depends Largely On Proper Core Of the Teeth. Good health depends largely on the care you take of your teeth. Well cared-for teeth cannot necessarily guarantee good health, but bad teeth will certainly lead to bad health. The most serious disease of the teeth and gums is pyorr hoea, and the destruction it wrecks in the mouth can spread to the rest of the body, causing general disability

The World's News · Saturday 25 January 1947 · page 6

PYORRHOEA is an infection of the mouth by germs which gradually causes the gums to separate from the roots of the teeth, and a…

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Salvaging Schooner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 January 1947 · page 4

The converted 68-foot schooner Melanesia, which sank at her moorings in Berry's Bay on Friday night, was partially raised by divers yesterday. Slings were placed around her and she will be refloated to-morrow with the aid of the floating crane Titan…

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Wedge Possible Cause of Plane Crash Found At Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--A small wooden control lock may have caused the plane disaster at Copenhagen yesterday…

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Wedge Possible Cause of Plane Crash Found At Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 28 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. -- A small wooden control lock may have caused the plane disaster at Copenhagen yesterday…

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Alma Doepel Trading Again Rerigged As Schooner

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 4

a diesel-driven vessel, the Alma Doepel returned to Melbourne last week re-rigged as a for-and-aft schooner. She Brought 1,500,000…

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Cross-channel Steamer. Features Of New Arnhem

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 1

The L.N.E.R. cross-Channel steamer Arnhem, launched at Clydebank recently by John Brown & Co., Ltd., is a vessel of…

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Fierce Whirlwind Wrecks Narellan Township

The Sun · Thursday 30 January 1947 · page 3

A gigantic whirlwind which resulted from two storms converging with cyclonic force smashed the township of Narellan, near Camden, yesterday…

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18 Lost When Lifeboat Capsizes Ship Blows Up In Biscay Was Taking Wool From Australia

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--Two passengers and 16 members of the crew of the S.S. Samwater (7219 tons) were drowned when a lifeboat taking them from their abandoned ship…

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18 Lost When Lifeboat Capsizes Ship Blows Up In Biscay Was Taking Wool From Australia

Daily Mirror · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--Two passengers and 16 members of the crew of the S.S. Samwater (7219 tons) were drowned when a lifeboat taking them from their abandoned ship…

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THE Half-hour That Nearly Wrecked His Marriage

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1947 · page 9

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A rain of friendly bread wrecked a city TIME

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 February 1947 · page 23

"And the ravens brought him (Elijah) bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook -- 1 Kings, 17: 6." The few Christian survivors of the weird 18-month siege of…

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Ship Wrecked in Storm

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--The entire crew of 35 were rescued when the 4700-ton Irish steamer. Irish Glane, ran aground during…

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