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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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Ship Wrecked Off California

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. -- The motorship Pacific Enterprise, carrying a crew of 54 and five…

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Ship Wrecked Off California

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. -- The motorship Pacific Enterprise, carrying a crew of 54 and five…

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Ship Wrecked Off California

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. -- The motorship Pacific Enterprise, carrying a crew of 54 and five…

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Ship Wrecked Off California

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday. -- The motorship Pacific Enterprise, carrying a crew of 54 and five…

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Ship Wrecked Off California

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 5

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.-- The motorship Pacific Enterprise, carrying a crew of 54 and five…

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No. 1 TRAGEDY Mother- Love Killed Some D.P. Babies Hospital Care Wrecked by Mistrust

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 11 September 1949 · page 6

Australian doctors and nurses, taking care of malnourished migrant children, say they often have to contend with the devotion of mothers. Weeks of care with special nursing, drugs,…

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U.S. Navy "being wrecked"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 September 1949 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Sun. (A.A.P.).--A U.S. Navy captain declared today that…

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Man Pinned Under Wreckage 2½ DAYS Bitter Ordeal Ends In Death

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 4

PINNED by his wrecked car for two-and-a-half days, a 66-years-old grazier died'a few hours before he was discovered last night…

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Man Pinned Under Wreckage 2½ DAYS Bitter Ordeal Ends In Death

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 4

PINNED by his wrecked car for two-and-a-half days, a 66-years-old grazier died a few hours before he was discovered last night…

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Peace Wrecked by Stalin A.F.L. President's Strictures

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 3

Denouncing Russia for her cola-war aggression in Europe, the President of the American Federation of Labor (Mr…

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Tide blamed for wreck

The Sun · Wednesday 14 September 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--A strong ebb tide was blamed at the Court of Marine Inquiry today for the steering…

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Pilot's Vain Struggle For Life In Plane's Death Dive Body Almost Buried Close to Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 September 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- The pilot of a R.A.A.F. Mustang fighter aircraft was killed when his aircraft dived to earth a short distance from Queanbeyan late this morning…

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Rusted Bar Was Cause of Wreck

The Sun · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Superficial inspection by a Lloyd's Classification Society surveyor in Sydney was blamed today for the grounding of the freighter Time…

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Shipwreck

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 12

Douglas Stewart’s poetic drama “Shipwreck”, the present production of the Metropolitan. Theatre at the St. Laurence Hall, deals…

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Criticism by Judge on Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The Court of Marine: Inquiry today found that the ship Time grounded…

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Criticism by Judge on Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The Court of Marine Inquiry today found that the ship Time grounded…

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Criticism by Judge on Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- The Court of Marine Inquiry today found that the ship Time grounded…

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226 Missing After Fire Sweeps Canadian Steamer

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 18 September 1949 · page 1

TORONTO (Canada), Sept. 17 (A.A.P.). —At least 50 and probably. 100 people perished when fire swept the Great Lakes cruise steamer Nororiic (6905 tons) at her pier here early to-day…

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Never a wreck in 44½ years

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 September 1949 · page 16

In 44½ years' service in lighthouses around the Australian coast Henry F isher never saw a shipwreck…

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Inquiry Over Wrecked Ketch Search for "Missing" Crew Man

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a…

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