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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948

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Trawler Wrecked, All Safe

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

BATEMAN'S BAY, Saturday-- The 70ft. seine trawler Montgomery, which struck the rocks at…

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Trawler Wrecked All Safe

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

BATEMAN'S BAY, Saturday-- The 70ft. seine trawler Montgomery, which struck the rocks at…

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Trawler Wrecked, All Safe

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

BATEMAN'S BAY, Saturday-- The 70ft. seine trawler Montgomery, which struck the rocks at…

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Trawler Wrecked, All Safe

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

BATEMAN'S BAY, Saturday. --The '70ft. seine trawler Montgomery, which struck the rocks at…

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Trawler Wrecked, All Safe

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

BATEMAN'S BAY, Saturday. --The 70ft. seine trawler Montgomery, which struck the rocks at…

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Ships Wrecked, Lives Lost In U.K. Storms Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 8.—Eight people were drowned when a big wave capsized a trawler off Brittany (France) last night,…

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4000-Mile Trip in Converted Lifeboat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.).--Two men reached Falmouth (Cornwall) today after a 71-day, 4000-mile voyage in a converted ship's lifeboat across the Atlantic from Miami (Florida)…

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Water-burst Wrecks Road, Traps Traffic, Floods Homes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1

A burst water main last night wrecked 100 yards of Parramatta Road in Camperdown and trapped…

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The Outmoded Fantasy Of Sovereignty Could Wreck This Empire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 8

MR. MENZIES puts very clearly to the people of Britain the argument for a reorganised Empire…

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Arabs 'Wrecked Pumping Plant'

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).-- First reports indicated that Arab irregulars were responsible for blowing up the…

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Storms Wreck Crops in Europe Farmers Lose Grain, Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--Gales, snow, and torrential rain in the worst summer storms for years have ruined crops in Western Europe…

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Tornado-wrecked Homes in N.z

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 3

The tornado which hit Frankston Junction, New Zealand, on Wednesday, left homes like this. It killed three people and caused £1 million damage. The Auckland City Council, with a gift of £500, yesterday opened a relief fund for sufferers…

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Missing ketch seen by R.A.A.F. searchers

The Sun · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 3

DARWIN, Saturday.-- Alter having been five days overdue, the 24-ft ketch Wanderer has been spotted by an RAAF Dakota plane…

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Adventure for six in a ketch Reaching for the Sun, by Peter Gladwin. London: Latimer House, Ltd

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 August 1948 · page 13

IN the long-ago, Anacharsis said: "There are three kinds of people: those who are…

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Overdue ketch safe DARWIN

The Sun · Sunday 29 August 1948 · page 3

THE ketch Wanderer, missing in the Gulf of Carpentaria for five days, has been found…

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Wreckage on Lion Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

HORNSBY police have gone to Lion Island to investigate a report that Mr. Alexander. Delecta Ave., Clareville,…

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Wreckage on Lion Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 3

HORNSBY police have gone to Lion Island to investigate a report that Mr. Alexander. Delecta Ave., Clareville,…

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Wreckage on Lion Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 2

HORNSBY police have gone to Lion Island to investigate a report that Mr. Alexander, Delecta Ave., Clareville,…

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Steamer Battles with Gale

The Sun · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Bass Strait steamer Taroona, with 100 passengers aboard, battled…

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Ketch Kathleen Arrives in Tahiti

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 9

The Sydney ketch Kathleen reached Papeete, Tahiti, last Sunday on the third-last "leg" of her voyage round the world. Kathleen, which…

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