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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

512 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 26

Wreckage Of Launch Found

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Port Campbell police are today searching the Lochard Gorge, six…

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Wreckage Points To Tragedies In Bass Strait

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Wreckage seen by police in Lochard Gorge, 150 miles east of Melbourne, have been…

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Wreckage Clue to Yacht

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- Police believe wreckage found at Lome today came from the missing…

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Boat Wreckage Found On Coast

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 March 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Wreckage washed up on two separate parts of the Victorian coast has now been definitely…

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Warning by Menzies on Red Wreckers

The Sun · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Saturday. -- "It would be a calamity it the majority of unionists concerned allow themselves to be led into a hopeless battle by people who are engaged in purely destructive activities," the Prime…

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Strikers wreck tramcars

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 2

BRUSSELS, Fri.--Strikers wrecked 200 trams in Brussels today in angry…

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£300,000 at Stake in the Hebrides Divers Reach Ancient Galleon Wreck In Spanish Gold Search From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 26 March 1950 · page 4

LONDON, March 25.—Admiralty divers working off the Hebridean Island of Mull have found the hull of a Spanish galleon believed to be carrying ducats worth £300,000 sterling. The galleon sank in…

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TRIBUNE Warning On Capitalist Wreckers

Tribune · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 4

AFTER listening to Pig Iron Bob voicing Hitler like threats to the workers over the radio for a whole Saturday, the…

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Bridge toll gate wrecked

The Sun · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 3

One of the fortnight old toll gates on the Harbor Bridge was wrecked when a Wynyard-bound double-decker bus…

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Passenger hoisted ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 9

Officers and crew of the liner Sydney Star (11,380 tons) rigged an emergency ambulance box yesterday and landed an elderly passenger with the ship's cargo-handling gear. They used the…

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Bus Strike May Wreck Eire Govt

Truth · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 3

DUBLIN, Saturday. — A transport strike which began because two bus drivers changed from the Irish…

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At Canberra Party Row Boat Brings "Shipwrecked" Guest To Party

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 16

A "SHIPWRECK" party, with the 40 guests wearing the clothes in which they "survived" the wreck and…

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Gossip: "Shipwreck" party . . . bride's orchid bouquet . . . birthday

The Sun · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 43

FIFTY "survivors" in the clothes they were wearing when "shipwrecked" arrived…

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Fisherman Dies in Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sun.--A fisherman was drowned when his cutter was wrecked on a reef at Wool Bay, near Stansbury,…

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Plan To Wreck System Of Trial By Jury

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.-- The Scottish Police Federation wants to abolish the jury system in murder trials. Giving evidence before the…

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Body Taken From Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 5

BATHURST, Tuesday.— The burned body of Maxwell Humphries, fireman on the train, was recovered to-day…

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Families Flee As Heavy Subsidences Wreck Homes Rains soften earth

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 1

Heavy land subsidences on the South Coast last night forced…

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Mutiny, Marooning, Massacre and Murder Added Horrors. to Wreck The Wreck Of the Wager

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 15

HIS Britannic Majesty's 28-gun ship Wager was a "lame duck" even in the ramshackle, poorly equipped squadron Commodore Anson led from the Mersey late in 140. A decrepit cast-off of the merchant service, she had been hastily armed to join five warships…

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Mutiny, Marooning, Massacre and Murder Added Horrors to Wreck The Wreck Of the Wager

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 15

HIS Britanic Majesty's 28-gun ship Wager was a "lame duck" even in the ramshackle, poorly-euipped squadron Commodore Anson led from the Mersey late in 1740. A decrepit cast-off of the merchant service, she had been hastily armed to join five warships…

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Mutiny, Marooning, Massacre and Murder Added Horrors to Wreck

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 15

HIS Britannic Majesty's 28-gun ship Wager was a "lame duck" even in the ramshackle, poorly equipped squadron Commodore Anson led from the Mersey late in 1740. A decrepit cast-off of the merchant service, she had been hastily armed to join five warships…

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