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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 25

Dramatic Pictures Of Rescue From Wrecked Spanish Vessel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

CAPTAIN of the Spanish fishing vessel, Tito, was the last to leave her after she piled up on the Goeira rock, 25 miles from Vigo (Spain), in a storm. Thirty-six members of the crew were rescued by breeches buoy, after the Dutch vessel…

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Dramatic Pictures Of Rescue From wrecked Spanish Vessel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

CAPTAIN of the Spanish fishing vessel, Tito, was the last to leave her after she piled up on the Goeira rock, 25 miles from Vigo (Spain), in a storm. Thirty-six members of the crew were rescued by breeches buoy, after the Dutch vessel…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings Of Randwick Shops

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 3

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 9

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings Of Randwick Shops

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 3

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 9

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 9

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus Wrecks Awnings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 9

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc., ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Bus wrecks Awnings

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 9

A DOUBLE-DECKER BUS caused this havoc, ripping the awnings off two shops and sending flying timber…

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Pilot Hurt, Plane Wrecked In Crash At Macquarie Fields

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 30 January 1949 · page 3

The pilot of this Tiger Moth plane was injured when the plane crashed into an open paddock neat…

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Wrecked Men Frozen Dead R.A.N. Story Of China Sea Rescues

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 3

NANKING, Sun. -- The crew of on Australian destroyer found Chinese, evacuees frozen dead in life jackets among the wreckage of two ships that…

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Shipwrecked Men Saved

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Mon. -- The Barrier Reef pleasure cruiser, Corsair, yesterday rescued two men who were shipwrecked on Proudhoe Island five days…

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Attempt Made to Wreck Ship Says Capt

The Sun · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 3

An attempt was made to wreck the interstate freighter Kooralya, just after she left Melbourne last month, according to a report now released by the company…

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Snow Wrecks Airship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 6

One consequence of the unprecedented blizzards which have been sweeping the U.S Mid-West was the wrecking of this airship at its mooring mast in Los Angeles. An inch-thick layer of snow on top of the airship caused it…

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Naval Man Sees Wreck Of Plane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 5

LAS PALMAS (Canary Islands), Wednesday. -- A Spanish naval commander reports sighting the wreckage of…

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Snow Wrecks Airship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 6

One consequence of the unprecedented blizzards which have been sweeping the U.S. Mid-West was the wrecking of this airship at its mooring mast in Los Angeles. An inch-thick layer of snow on top of the airship caused it…

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Snow Wrecks Airship

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 6

One consequence, of the unprecedented blizzards which have been sweeping the U.S. Mid-West was the wrecking of this airship at its mooring mast in Los Angeles. An inch-thick layer of snow on top of the airship caused it…

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Wreckage of U.s. Plane Seen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Feb. 10 (A. A. P.).— The wreckage of an American plane which has been missing since Sunday has been sighted…

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Us Plan to Wreck Asia Liberation Bombay. —

Tribune · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 2

The People’s World quotes well-informed Shanghai sources as saying that the US State Department…

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16 Bodies Found in Wreckage of Plane

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 12

LIMA, Wednesday.--The wreckage has been found of the Faucett Airlines Dakota, which had been missing since…

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