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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

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Adrift For 26 Days... Instalment 3 The LIFEBOAT

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 15 January 1950 · page 9

I have puzzled over the reasons in my own mind. I started with advantages over most of the other soldiers in the boat…

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John, 13, Ashore Again; £10,000 Search Ends

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 15 (A.A.P.)—A [?]cottish laddie's dream of ships and adventure that [?]the…

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Gale Wrecks Harbor Launches

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

Scene af Double Bay this morning after last night's fierce storm…

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Launch Wrecked in Gale; House Heavily Damaged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

Beneath the rubble shown here is a bed which Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Comyn, of Phillip St., Balmain, vacated a few minutes before part of a wall of;' their home collapsed early today. Their nephew…

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Gale Wrecks Harbor Launches

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

Scene at Double Bay this morning after last night's fierce storm…

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S.A. Ketch To Cross Pacific

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Saturday.— Dr. E. A. Joske, ol Balaklava, South Australia, plans to sail a 38-foot ketch across the…

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Adrift For 26 Days... Final Instalment The LIFEBOAT

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 January 1950 · page 9

WALTER GIBSON, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to-day concludes his story of his escape from death after drifting for 26 days across the Indian Ocean. After the Rooseboom was torpedoed on March 1, 1942, the survivors drifted helplessly. Out of 135 who…

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Glacier Wrecks Village

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 January 1950 · page 4

TEHERAN, Monday.--A glacier yesterday buried the entire village of Tangesar, about 20 miles…

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45ft. fall down steamer's hold

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 12

A 29-years-old wharflaborer was seriously injured last night when he fell 45 feet down the hold of a ship at No. 8 wharf…

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Fishing-boat Wrecked: Man Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday.— The postmaster of Urania, Mr. M. P. Brown,.a married man with three children, was…

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Search Plane Wrecked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (A.A.P.).—A U.S. Air Force plane crashed in the Yukon yesterday while searching for…

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Steamer Lands Injured Man

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 1

The 3.300-ton interstate steamer Kooringa had to break its voyage yesterday at Sydney to land an injured fireman,…

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Clock, battery found in wrecked plane, court told

The Sun · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 3

A large clock, wired to dry cell batteries and coil, and tied to a block of wood, were found in the bilge of a Catalina flying-boat salvaged from…

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Alarm Clock, Battery in Plane Wreck Witness Tells Of Discovery After Blast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

A Qantas flying boat superintendent told the City Coroner's Court today that he found an alarm clock wired to a battery in the wreckage of a…

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Alarm Clock, Battery in Plane Wreck Witness Tells Of Discovery After Blast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

A Qantas flying boat superintendent told the City Coroner's Court today that he found an alarm dock wired to a battery in the wreckage, of a…

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Alarm Clock, Battery in Plane Wreck Witness Tells Of Discovery After Blast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

A Qantas flying boat superintendent told the City Coroner's Court today that he found an alarm clock wired to a battery in the wreckage of a…

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Alarm Clock, Battery in Plane Wreck Witness Tells Of Discovery After Blast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

A, Qantas flying boat superintendent told the City Coroner's Court today that he found an alarm clock wired to a battery in the wreckage of a…

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Alarm Clock, Battery in Plane Wreck Witness Tells Of Discovery After Blast

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 2

A Qantas flying boat superintendent told the City Coroner's Court today that he found an alarm clock wired to a battery in the wreckage of a…

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Moves Against Red Wreckers Merit Full Support

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 1

PRIMARY producers have a vital interest in the plans of the Commonwealth Government to deal with the Communist Party, which, if allowed, to flourish, will cause further disruption in many industries. Results of Communist tactics…

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Device found in wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 10

A Qantas superintendent said yesterday that an alarm clock, Wired to a battery and a coil and tied to a piece of board, could have caused a…

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