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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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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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Ketch mystery: police start wide search for man

The Sun · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.--State-wide searches are being made in Victoria and South Australia for Bernard Williams Harnsworth, 44, engineer, who intended making a Pacific cruise with a man and woman who were shipwrecked for three and a…

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Police Inquiries Over Wreck of Ketch on Desolate Island Man Named In Log Reported Missing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a luxury yacht on desolate Curtis Island in Bass Strait…

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Police Inquiries Over Wreck of Ketch on Desolate Island Man Named in Log Reported Missing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a luxury yacht on desolate Curtis Island in Bass Strait…

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Police Inquiries Over Wreck of Ketch on Desolate Island Man Named In Log Reported Missing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a luxury yacht on desolate Curtis Island in Bass Strait…

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Police Inquiries Over Wreck of Ketch on Desolate Island Man Named In Log Reported Missing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a luxury yacht on desolate Curtis Island in Bass Strait…

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Police Inquiries Over Wreck of Ketch on Desolate Island Man Named In Log Reported Missing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Victorian and South Australian police are making investigations into circumstances surrounding the wreck of a luxury yacht on desolate Curtis Island in Bass Strait…

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"Wandering" Shoal Off N. Australian Coast Surprising Discovery by Steamer

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 10

A DANGEROUS, ''disappearing shoal of coral and sand has been discovered off the coast of North Australia, lying directly on the busy shipping route between Thursday…

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'"Wandering" Shoal Off N. Australian Coast Surprising Discovery by Steamer

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 10

A DANGEROUS, "disappearing" shoal of coral and sand has been discovered off the coast off North Australia, lying directly on the busy shipping route between Thursday…

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Police Search for Mystery Man of Ketch

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The Acting-Chief of the C.T.B. (Superintendent Halsall) said today that…

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Mystery Man of Lost Ketch Island Hunt Resultless

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Police in South Australia and Victories are conducting an intense search for Bernard Harimsworth, who might have been…

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Mystery Man of Lost Ketch Island Hunt Resultless

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Police in South Australia and Victoria are conducting an intense search for Bernard Harmsworth, who might have been…

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Dog Nearly Wrecks Eisteddfod Opening

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 6

A wire-haired fox terrier almost wrecked the opening session of the 12th City of Sydney Eisteddfod at the Conservatorium yesterday…

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British steamer shelled

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 2

HONGKONG, Wed.--A Chinese Nationalist destroyer fired five…

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"Foundered" Pony

The Land · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 25

"R.G.N.": Is there any cure for an 18-months-old pony that is fat foundered? Answer: Prompt treatment is…

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Woman wrecked airliner to kill rival, police say

The Sun · Saturday 24 September 1949 · page 2

MONTREAL, Friday.--The explosion which crashed a Canadian Pacific Airways plane on September 9 with the loss of 23…

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Color Bar Wrecks African Wedding

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 September 1949 · page 3

DURBAN, Fri. (A.A.P.).--An attractive French Mauritian woman collapsed in a Durban church when the priest told her she was too swarthy to pass as a white woman…

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Husband Missing on Steamer Trip

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 September 1949 · page 56

Twenty-six-year-old Mrs. N. H. Hopkins sobbed hysterically for some minutes last night after being told that her husband was reported missing from the Boss Strait…

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Wreck of a marriage

The Sun · Sunday 25 September 1949 · page 34

IN A Tree Grows i[?] Brooklyn, Betty Smit[?] painted a superb an[?] understanding picture o[?]…

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Poisiner's Secret Wrecked A Career

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 25 September 1949 · page 9

It all began simply enough on March 8, 1895, when one George Dean, of North Sydney, known to quite a number of Sydney folk as the master of one of the North Shore Ferry Company's steamers, was arrested on a charge pf having administered poison to his wife with intent to murder her…

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