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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 25

Seamen Stop Work Crew Ashore; Ship Waits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— The entire crew of the 15,000-ton passenger freighter Arawa walked off their ship last night…

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Gas Explosion Wrecks Room

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 1

A terrific gas explosion wrecked the room of a house in Napier Street, Paddington, today. THE blast occurred about 1.20…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore without a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Shipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore without a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore with out a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore without a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore with out a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious, in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore without a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Stranded Skipper Made Name for Himself As a Steamboat Pirate The Story Of The Stolen Steamer, Ferret

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 17

MOST sailors who find themselves stranded ashore without a ship soon begin to feel a bit out of their depth. But there was something amphibious in the make-up of sea-faring James Stewart Henderson, alias Smith. Finding…

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Round-the-world Trip in Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 2

English sculptor, author and artist, Jack Bilbo, making ready at Chelsea (Eng.) on his 30ft. converted lifeboat,…

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Round-the-world Trip in Lifeboat

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 2

English sculptor, author and artist, Jack Bilbo, making ready at Chelsea (Eng.) on his 30ft. converted lifeboat,…

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Home Wrecking Ban

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 1

PROVIDENCE (Rhode Island). -- A bill providing heavy penalties for persons who tear down a dwelling in 1949…

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US Out To Wreck Big Four Talk LONDON.—

Tribune · Saturday 11 June 1949 · page 2

The well-informed London Economist confirms the general view that the Yarks want to wreck the[?]…

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Angry Germans Halt Wreckers Tension in Ruhr

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 2

BERLIN, Mon.--Defying a British ultimatum, Germans today prevented dismantling crews from entering two synthetic oil plants in the Ruhr…

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27 Strikers Wreck Award of 18,000 Fellow Members Blurt Court Talk in F.E.D.F.A. Dispute at Clyde Works Onus on Union Executive to Enforce Disciplinary Measures

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 2

The judgment of the Full Arbitration Court last week, following the strike of 27 crane - drivers at the Clyde Engineering Works last March, shows how any minority…

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Wrecker's Mistake

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

HARTFORD (Connecticut).-- When Zebulun Sallick, of. Norwalk (Connecticut) arrived home one day he found a…

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Wrecker's Mistake

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

HARTFORD (Connecticut).-- When Zebulun Sallick, of Norwalk (Connecticut) arrived home one day he found a…

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Wrecker's Mistake

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

HARTFORD (Connecticut).-- When Zebulun Sallick, of Norwalk (Connecticut)' arrived home one day he found a…

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Wrecker's Mistake

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

HARTFORD (Connecticut).-- When Zebulun Sallick, of Norwalk (Connecticut) arrived home one day he found a…

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Wrecker's Mistake

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 24

HARTFORD (Connecticut).-- When Zebulun Sallick, of Norwalk (Connecticut) arrived home one day he found a…

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