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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

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Brick-kiln Wrecked 3 men jump to safety in chimney MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 1 January 1950 · page 5

THREE steeplejacks jumped into the mouth of a chimney to avoid a 150- feet fall today…

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Ketch Preparing for Voyage to U.s

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1950 · page 15

NEWCASTLE, Sun. -- A 45ft. ketch arrived at Newcastle today to prepare for a trip to America and probably around the world…

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Report That Deportees Swam Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thursday.—Several South Americans who were being deported from Australia…

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Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Suez

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SUEZ, Saturday.--This torrid, sinful town of fiction and film was in a dither yesterday over what is claimed to be a genuine sea monster. THIRTY -SEVEN feet long, half -hippopotamus, half…

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Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Suez

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SUEZ, Saturday.-- This torrid, sinful town of fiction and film was in a dither yesterday over what is claimed to be a genuine sea monster. THIRTY- SEVEN feet long, half- hippopotamus,…

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Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Suez

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SUEZ, Saturday.-- This torrid, sinful town of fiction and film was in a dither yesterday over what is claimed to be a genuine sea monster. THIRTY -SEVEN feet long, half -hippopotamus,…

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Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Suez

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SUEZ, Saturday.--This torrid, sinful town of fiction and film was in a dither yesterday over what is claimed to be a genuine sea monster. THIRTY -SEVEN feet long, half- hippopotamus,…

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Sea Monster Washed Ashore at Suez

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SUEZ, Saturday.--This torrid, sinful town of fiction and film was in a dither yesterday, over what is claimed to be a genuine sea monster. THIRTY - SEVEN feet long, half- hippopotamus,…

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Why Jack Ashore May Be A Bad Boy

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 30

Unmanned and rusting naval vessels in Port Jackson, and the drawing of R.N. ratings to man Australia's fleet, stress the Navy's lack of appeal to the Australian. THE steady types required see no…

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Adrift For 26 Days... Instalment 2 The LIFEBOAT

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 9

FOR 26 days the small lifeboat drifted in the Indian Ocean after the Dutch steamer Rooseboom had been torpedoed, on March 1, 1942. In and around the lifeboat when the voyage began were 135 people…

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Your Marriage-- Salvaging wrecked romance

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1950 · page 29

1. Can a wife's love, once dead, be revived? Answer: It is possible not…

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15 Shipwrecked Cruses Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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15 Shipwrecked Crusoes Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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15 Shipwrecked Crushes Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs, A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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15 Shipwrecked Crusoes Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stem on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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15 Shipwrecked. Crusoes Lived Mime Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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15 Shipwrecked Cruses Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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5 Shipwrecked Crusoes Lived Nine Months on Barren Island

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 11

THE ship struck, stern on, in a great fissure in the cliffs. A gaunt needle of rock gashed a jagged hole in her bows below the waterline, and held her fast. As dawn broke, the handful of men clinging desperately to her yards…

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Trailer Wrecked

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

WRECKED semi-trailer which ran two miles downhill Ousley Road, North [?]gong, today, when the brakes failed. The lorry overturned several times. Hush Mackie, about 34, of Dixon Street, Newtown, suffered probable internal injuries and William Hatheley, 38, of Rockford Street, Erskineville, a compound fracture of the…

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Long Trip By Ketch

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 4

PERTH, Saturday.—A South Perth electrician, Trevor Tuckfield, and his wife plan to start a…

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