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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948

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Wreckage Discovered on Barren Joey Beach Thought To Bo Launch

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 1

WATER police think it possible that a section of a boat's flooring boards washed up at Barrenjoey Beach, Pittwater, this morning may be from…

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Wreckage Discovered on Barrenjoey Beach Thought To Be Launch

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 1

WATER police think it possible that a section of a boat's flooring boards washed up at Barrenjoey Beach, Pittwater, this morning may be from…

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Wreckage Discovered Mile From Palm Beach Thought To Be Launch

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 1

RECK AGE believed by fishermen to be that of the 16ft. launch Syd, which has been missing since Saturday with three men and a boy on board…

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Wreckage Discovered on Barren Joey Beach Thought To Be Launch

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 1

WATER police think it possible that a section of a boat's flooring boards washed up at Barrenjjoey Beach, Pittwater, this morning may be from…

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Wreckage Not From Launch

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 May 1948 · page 2

Floor planking from a boat found late yesterday afternoon in the water off Barrenjoey does not belong to either of…

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Wreckage Not From Launches

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 2

GOSFORD, Wednesday. -- Wreckage found at Nelson's Bay and Lion Island today is not from either…

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Boat Wreckage on Beach Not From Missing Launches

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 7

Police investigating the disappearance of the launches Syd and Joyce…

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Weird Ship Ashore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 May 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A small two-masted ship with no sign of life aboard was sighted ashore…

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Ketch From Sydney at Jamaica

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1948 · page 4

KINGSTON (Jamaica, Monday.--The Sydney ketch Kathleen, on a world cruise, arrived here…

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Wreckage at Botany Pier

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1948 · page 5

Wreckage of a launch washed up near Botany pier yesterday is not from the launches Syd and…

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Attlee Wrecking Malayan Unions

Tribune · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 8

SINGAPORE. — The Attlee-controlled British colonial Government of Singapore is trying to smash the unions…

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Woman Minister May Wreck Govt

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Thursday.--A woman may be responsible for the overthrow of the Schuman "middle-way" Government before the end of the week…

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Gaekwar's Pride steps ashore

The Sun · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 10

Gaekwar's Pride, formerly owned by the Maharaja of Baroda, was unloaded in Sydney yesterday after a boat trip from England. The stallion will go to the Marylands Stud, Castle Hill…

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The Plunger's dream ship foundered in hot water

The Sun · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 8

Jolly, rotund, party-loving Michael Kerrigan, self-styled rail and shipping magnate, has a 120,000 dollars (£37,500) hangover. "The Plunger," as the…

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Wife's Lover Wrecked by Sage Sea Salt

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1948 · page 6

GEORGE PHILLIPS, the gentleman who stole Mrs. Cecilia Cargill from her naval pensioner husband, Charles Osborne Cargill, must have been in a benign frame of…

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Lifeboat Rescue in Gale Off U.k. Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday.-- A lifeboat launched at Weymouth yesterday in g heavy gale rescued three people in a…

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Lifeboat Rescue in Gale Off U.k. Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.-- A lifeboat was launched at Weymouth yesterday in a heavy gale to go to the rescue of…

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Errol Flynn Host To Ketch's Crew

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

KINGSTON, Tuesday. -- The crew of Sydney artist Jack Earl's ketch Kathleen was entertained on Sunday by the Tasmanian -born film star, Errol Flynn. YESTERDAY was the first anniversary of the ketch's…

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Errol Flynn Host To Ketch's Crew

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 2

KINGSTON, Tuesday. -- The crew of Sydney artist Jack Earl's ketch Kathleen was entertained on Sunday by the Tasmanian -born film star, Errol Flynn. YESTERDAY was the first anniversary of the ketch's…

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Errol Flynn Most To Ketch's Crew

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 3

KINGSTON, Tuesday. -- The crew of Sydney artist Jack Earl's ketch Kathleen was entertained on Sunday by the Tasmanian -born film star, Errol Flynn. YESTERDAY, was the first anniversary of the ketch's…

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