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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 25

Mission Launch Driven Ashore En Route For New Hebrides Hopes for Salvage If Weather Improves

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.--The 45-foot diesel mission launch leleo, which Sydney obi Tuesday afternoon for the New Hebrides, was drivers ashore near crescent Head tween 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. today…

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Mission Launch Driven Ashore En Route For New Hebrides Hopes' for Salvage If Weather Improves

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.-- The 45-foot diesel mission launch Leleo, which left Sydney on Tuesday afternoon for the New Hebrides, was driven ashore near Crescent Head between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. today…

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Mission Launch Driven Ashore En Route For New Hebrides Hopes for Salvage If Weather Improves

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.--The 45-foot diesel mission launch Leleo, which left Sydney on Tuesday afternoon for the New Hebrides, was. driven ashore near Crescent Head between a.m. and 5 a.m. today…

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Mission Launch Driven Ashore En Route For New Hebrides Hopes for Salvage If Weather Improves

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Friday.-- The 45-foot diesel mission launch Leleo, which left Sydney on Tuesday afternoon for,,the New Hebrides, was driven ashore near Crescent Head between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. today…

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Wrecked Time Left to Rust on Vic. Reef

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Attempts to salvage the freighter Time (3222 tons), which ran aground on Corsair Reef, at the entrance to Port Phillip, last Tuesday morning, have been abandoned…

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Wrecked Time Left to Rust on Vic. Reef

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Attempts, to salvage the freighter Time (3222 tons), which ran aground on Corsair Reef, at the entrance to Port Phillip, last Tuesday morning, have been abandoned…

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Wrecked Time Left to Rust on Vic. Reef

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Attempts to salvage the freighter Time (3222 tons), which ran aground on Corsair Reef, at the entrance to Port Phillip, last Tuesday morning, have been abandoned…

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Wrecked Time Left to Rust on Vic. Reef

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Attempts to salvage the freighter Time (3222 tons), which ran aground on Corsair Reef, at the entrance to Port Phillip, last Tuesday morning, have been abandoned…

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Ketch Crosses Atlantic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 August 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 26 (A.A.P.) —Four men have crossed the Atlantic in a 41ft ketch in 52 days…

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Wreck reminder

The World's News · Saturday 27 August 1949 · page 20

IN 1894 a passenger steamer struck a reef and sank among the islands of the Recherche Archipelago, WA. On a sand ridge on the mainland…

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Flying-boat Wreck Raised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 1

A giant crane hoists the wreckage of a Qantas Catalina from the bottom of Rose Bay where it settled after an explosion destroyed the aircraft early on Saturday. Investigators found evidence of sabotage. See story in Cols. 6, 7 and 8.)…

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Bomb Caused Explosion Flying-boat Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 1

Experts who yesterday inspected the wreckage of the Qantas Empire Airways Catalina which blew up at Rose Bay early on Saturday said last night that a time-bomb…

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Ex-Servicemen Wreck Paul Robeson Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (A.A.P.).—Thirteen persons were injured in a three-hour riot at a picnic grove…

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FLYING - Boat "Blown Up" Police inspect wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 7

Police and Qantas officials believe a Catalina flying-boat was deliberately…

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The Unions could wreck the Labor Party

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 August 1949 · page 8

THE suggestion that the split in the A.L.P. is exclusively a Communist show…

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140 Passengers Sleep Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 September 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. -- About 140 Largs Bay passengers are sleeping ashore at Aden's R.A.F. Club, as a result, of the…

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140 Passengers Sleep Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 September 1949 · page 18

LONDON, Thursday. -- About 140 Largs Bay passengers are sleeping ashore at Aden's R.A.F. Club, as a result of the…

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140 Passengers Sleep Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 September 1949 · page 24

LONDON, Thursday. -- About 140 Largs Bay passengers are sleeping ashore at Aden's R.A.F. Club, as a result of the…

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140 Passengers Sleep Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 September 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday. -- About 140 Largs Bay passengers are sleeping ashore at Aden R.A.F. Club, as a result of the…

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140 Passengers Sleep Ashore

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 September 1949 · page 18

LONDON, Thursday. -- About 140 Largs Bay passengers are sleeping ashore at Aden's R.A.F. Club, as a result of the…

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