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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1948

556 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 28

Wreckage Of Shipyard

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 6

BLOHM AND VOSS shipyard, Hamburg, the largest in Europe, being dismantled under Military…

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Ship to Put Sick Passenger Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 9

The freighter Levuka will call at Sydney today to put ashore the wife of the new Czech Consul-General (Mr. Karel Sakh) who is reported to be very ill…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields a of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Playground Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 8

I HAVE visited the battlefields of Europe and viewed films of Hiroshima. Now I have had a look at the playground of the…

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Customs Raid On Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

Customs officers raided the steamer. Nankin at Gore Bay again yesterday and seized more than 5,000 cakes of toilet…

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Labor Will Fight Communist Sabotage Victorian A. L. P. Easter Conference Declaration Delegates Assail Terrorist Policy of Red Wreckers

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 1

The Victorian Branch of the A.L.P. declared at its Annual Conference during Easter that Communists were directed by the Russian Communist Party and were committed to the destruction of the A.L.P. as a prelude to social disorder and…

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Survivors on Island May Be From Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

Five men located in the Vitu Group of islands off New Britain are now believed to be survivors of…

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Stop Press Shipwreck Survivors

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 16

Minister for External Territories (Mr. Ward) said today the five men located in Vitn Group of islands ol[?] New Britain were…

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Wreckage of British Plane After Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 3

WRECKAGE of the British Viking plane which collided with a Russian fighter near Berlin on Monday. Fourteen people in the Viking were killed. Eye-witnesses said the Russian fighter was stunting when the planes…

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Ketch 2 Days Overdue

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. An auxiliary ketch, bound from Launceston to Melbourne, is two days'…

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Man Pinned for Hour in Wreck

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

WRECKAGE of truck'. which skidded and crashed Into a fence in Anderson St., Parramatta, last night,…

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Colombia Revolt Flares Up Afresh Food Short In Wrecked Capital 300 Slain by Drunken Mobs

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday.--Shooting, stabbing and looting broke out afresh yesterday afternoon in Bogota, Colombia's capital, and the death roll…

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Man Pinned for Hour in Wreck

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

WRECKAGE of truck which skidded and crashed into a fence in Anderson St., Parrarnatta, last night,…

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Colombia Revolt Flares Up Afresh Food Short In Wrecked Capital 300 Slain by Drunkenmobs

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Monday.--Shooting, stabbing and looting broke out afresh yesterday afternoon in Bogota, Colombia's capital, and the death roll…

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Ketch 3 Days Overdue

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --The ketch Leprena is now three days overdue on a trip from Launceston…

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Magoo Wrecks Plunge on Veiled Art Skelton Rep. Out of Luck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 11

A COLOSSAL plunge went astray when Veiled Art was beaten a head by Magoo in the Two-Year-Olid Maiden event for colts and geldings at Canterbury this afternoon…

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