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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1949

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is head of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding olive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Shipwreck Search Abandoned Gales, Rain Hamper Police

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 7

Gales, rain, and heavy seas yesterday forced police to abandon the sea dad air search for the ten men missing from the coastal steamer Bombo…

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Wreckage Of Bombo Drifts In

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Wreckage Of Bombo Drifts In

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Wreckage Of Bombo Drifts in

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Wreckage Of Bombo Drifts In

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday. --Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Wreckage Of Bombo Drifts in

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Wreckage Of Bomho Drifts in

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Wreckage from the S.S. Bombo was found this morning strewn along 18…

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Pilot Steamer May Stand By For Surf Boats

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 23

If seas are heavy the Captain Cook pilot steamer will stand by today for the Coogee Surf Club marathon boat race…

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US Accused Of Wrecking WFU

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 16

MEXICO .CITY.--Sr. Toledano, the Mexican Labor leader, has accused the United States of trying…

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New Murray River Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 5

Murray Valley Coaches Ltd. reports that a new paddle-steamer should be completed and in service by July…

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Spain's Drive Against Terrorists Hunt For Saboteurs Sequel to Rail Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 7

MADRID, Tuesday.--A relentless campaign against terrorists has been ordered following…

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Spain's Drive Against Terrorists Hunt For Saboteurs Sequel to Rail Wrecks

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 7

MADRID, Tuesday.--A relentless campaign against terrorists has been ordered following…

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Mother's plea to 'wreckers'

The Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 2

Workmen who arrived to demolish a house in King Street, Mancot, today, left again when a 19-year-old mother told them she had not completed her moving out…

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21 Killed in Plane Crash: All Burned Wreckage blazes after take-off from Coolangatta airstrip

The Sun · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday--Twenty-one people were burned to death when a Lockheed Lodestar airliner crashed and burst into flames soon after taking off from Bilinga airstrip, near Coolangatta, at 11.15…

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New Steamer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 18

MURRAY valley Coaches Ltd. reports that a new paddle-steamer should be completed and in service by July…

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Communists Use Key Meat To Wreck Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 8

FOR the second time in six months a handful of men employed at the Clyde…

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U.s. Vote Wrecks Hopes of Negroes

The Sun · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Friday.--An historic Senate vote tonight virtually wrecks President Truman's chances of…

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