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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948

556 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 28

Headless Body Washed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A headless and armless body of a man was washed ashore at Albert Park this morning…

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Headless Body Washed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A headless and armless body of a man was washed ashore at Albert Park this morning…

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Headless Body Washed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A headless and armless body of a man was washed ashore at Albert Park this morning…

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Headless Body Washed Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A headless and armless body of a man was washed ashore at Albert Park this morning…

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'Nervous Wrecks' After Recording

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Flautist Clive Amadio told Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. A. Blakeley) today that he had seen 20 musicians "nervous wrecks" after three hours of recording…

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'Nervous Wrecks' After Recording

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Flautist Clive Amadio told Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. A. Blakeley) today that he had seen 20 musicians "nervous wrecks" after three hours of recording…

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'Nervous Wrecks' After Recording

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Flautist Clive Amadio told Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. A. Blakeley) today that he had seen 20 musicians "nervous wrecks" after three hours of recording…

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'Nervous Wrecks' After Recording

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Flautist Clive Amadio told Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. A. Blakeley) today that he had seen 20 musicians "nervous wrecks" after three hours of recording…

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'Nervous Wrecks' After Recording

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 September 1948 · page 3

Flautist Clive Amadio told Federal Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. A. Blakeley) today that he had seen 20 musicians "nervous wrecks" after three hours of recording…

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Lutana Found Near Quirindi Wreckage Burned: All Feared Dead

The Sun · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 1

Wreckage of the lost ANA airliner Lutana was found today at the top of Square Peak (4600 feet), 16 miles due east of Quirindi. Experts who have flown over the area do not think any of…

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Wrecked Air Liner Near Quirindi Identification By Beaufighter Pilot

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 1

WRECKAGE of the lost A.N.A. Skyliner Lutana, which carried 10 passengers and a crew of three, was located from the air on a mountainside near Quirindi, 290 miles north-west of Sydney, this afternoon…

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Wrecked Air Liner Near Quirindi Identification By Beaufighter Pilot

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 1

WRECKAGE of an aircraft located on the side of a mountain near Quirindi, 290 miles north-west of Sydney, has been identified as that of the missing A.N.A. airliner Lutana. The identification was made this afternoon by the pilot of an…

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All Perish in Plane Crash Bodies In Wreckage A.N.A. Chief's Grisly Find

Truth · Sunday 5 September 1948 · page 2

QUIRINDI, Saturday.—It has been definitely established that all 10 passengers and the crew of three of the crashed A.N.A. airliner Lutana were…

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Charred Bodies in Wrecked Airliner Grim report from rescuers

The Sun · Sunday 5 September 1948 · page 1

CHARRED bodies of passengers and crew have been fourd in the wrecked airliner Lutana. Searchers saw the bodies huddled together in the nose of the airliner, where they had been hurled by the force of the impact…

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Vicar may hold service at wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 September 1948 · page 1

The Rev. R. H. Maclean, vicar of the Anglican Church, Nundle, plans to hold a church…

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Bodies Taken From Wreck Plane Off Course Before Crash

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

Bodies of the 10 passengers and three crew members were removed yesterday from the wrecked A.N.A. airliner Lutana, which was found on Saturday on Square Peak, near Quirindi…

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Wreckage of the Lutana on Mountainside

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

The smashed and burnt-out fuselage of the A.N.A. airliner Lutana, lying among trees on the steep slopes of Square Peak mountain, near Quirindi, where the plane crashed on Thursday night. On the right are police, civil aviation officials, and others searching the wreckage for bodies of the 13 occupants, most of whom were burnt beyond recognition…

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Wrecked Airliner on Mountain

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 3

A CROSS shows the spot where the A.N.A. airliner Lutana crashed on thickly timbered Ben Evers, near Quirindi, on Thursday night alter flying over the peak on the right…

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Charred Wreckage Of Passenger Plane On Mountain Open Inquiry Into Air Crash in Doubt

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 September 1948 · page 1

THE Director-Genera! of Civil Aviation (Air Vice-Marshal . Williams) said today it was a matter for the Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) to decide if anything could he gained by an open inquiry into the loss of the A.N.A. Skyliner…

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Gangs Clear Up Storm Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Repair gangs have be- gun clearing up the thousands of tons of wreckage left when hurricane-force gales cut a path of destruction through Southern Victoria yesterday…

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