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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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Chamars Wrecks Rotherham Plunge Good Run in Trial Stakes

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 12

A plunge went astray when Rotherham, backed from 94 to 74, was beaten comfortably by Chamars (71) in the Trial Stakes at Randwick this afternoon…

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Old Kittyhawk Wreck in Scrub

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Wreckage of a Kittyhawk fighter plane and unidentifiable human remains were found in…

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18 Missing in Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 5

VIGO (Spain), Saturday. -- Eighteen persons, including four women and five children, are believed…

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Wrecked Fighter Plane Found In Vic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 January 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.— Campers have found the wreckage of a fighter plane on a mountain near Walhalla—…

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Body found in plane wreck

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1949 · page 2

Police and RAAF men returned to Erica (Vic.) yesterday with the remains of an unidentified pilot,…

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Wreck May Be American Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sun. -- Police said today they believed plane wreckage found on a mountain in Gippsland last…

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Mystery of Missing Treasure Locked Up in Baffling Wreck Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 9

ON a gale- lashed afternoon of August 4, 1782, the East India Company's stout ship Grosvenor was wrecked on the desolate coast of Pondoland, Africa, some thousand miles from the Cape of Good Hope. In her strongroom she reputedly…

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Mystery of Missing Treasure Locker Up in Baffling Wreck Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 9

ON a gale -lashed afternoon of August 4, 1782, the East India Company's stout ship Grosvenor was wrecked on the desolate coast of Pondoland, Africa some thousand miles from the Cape of Good Hope. In her strongroom she reputedly…

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Mystery of Missing Treasure Locked Up in Baffling Wreck Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 9

ON a gale-lashed afternoon of August 4, 1782, the East India Company s stout ship Grosvenor was wrecked on the desolate coast of Pondoland, Africa,' some thousand miles from the Cane of Good Hope. In her strongroom she reputedly…

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Mystery of Missing Treasure Locked Up in Baffling Wreck Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 9

ON a gale- lashed afternoon of August 4, 1782, the East India Company's stout ship Grosvenor was wrecked on the desolate coast of Pondoland, Africa, some thousand miles from the Cape of Good Hope. In her strongroom she reputedly…

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Mystery of Missing Treasure Locked Up in Baffling Wreck Daily Mirror Special Feature

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 9

ON a gale- lashed afternoon of August 4, 1782, the East India Company's stout ship Grosvenor was wrecked on the desolate coast of Pondoland, Africa, some thousand miles from the Cape of Good Hope. In her strongroom she reputedly…

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Body Found at Manly Washed Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1949 · page 4

A body, believed to be that of a woman, was washed ashore at North Harbour, Manly, yesterday…

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Plot to Wreck Price Control

Tribune · Wednesday 12 January 1949 · page 3

Australian wage earners must be prepared to fight against a “Liberal” move to abandon price control at a meeting of State Prices Ministers in Sydney on February 3. VICTORIA, leading Southern…

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Sydney Crew for Ketch in Big Race

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 30

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Victorian ketch Kurrewa III, holder of the trans-Tasman yacht record established in last year's Auckland-Sydney race, has been officially entered for the 2200 mile…

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Schooner Missing Off Cuban Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 6

SANTIAGO DE CUBA (Cuba) Monday.-- A Haitian schooner carrying 30 passengers is missing between Haiti and…

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Racing Yacht Wrecked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. —Violent storms raged along the Victorian coast, causing heavy damage…

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Yacht Wrecked On Reef

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.--A gale drove the 43 ft. sloop Merlan on to the outer reef at the Rip (Port Phillip Heads) today. The vessel was wrecked. The four members of the crew…

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Theatre Wreckage After Wall's Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 3

FIRST PICTURE of the wrecked Broadway Theatre at Parkes, where a gale on Saturday blew in a wall of the theatre. An eight-years-old boy was crushed to death and 22 other children were injured…

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Ten Families Stay In Wrecked Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

Ten families, wary of offers of emergency accommodation, are living in a Botany apartment house unroofed and partly wrecked by the hurricane on Saturday…

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Ketch in Gale

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 5

WELLINGTON (NZ), Thursday.--Blown 150 miles off course by a gale, the auxiliary ketch Miranda,…

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