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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1950

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Tiger Moth Wrecked in Collision

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 3

A Tiger Moth plane, bent almost in halves, sprawls astride a Vampire jet fighter which crashed into…

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Invasion of Hainan Begins Strong Red Force Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 3

HONG KONG, April l8 (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Powerful Chinese Communist forces are extending beachheads which they won yesterday on…

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Gipsy Moth Wrecked in Crash with Jet Plane on Airfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 3

The wreckage of a Gipsy Moth being lifted off a Vampire jetplane after the aircraft collided at Bankstown airfield yesterday…

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the lodge the Home-wrecker

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 9

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Ten Sick Men May Wreck Labour

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 23 April 1950 · page 3

LONDON, April 22 (A.A.P.).—British Labour Party-leaders admitted to-day that 10 Labour members might be too sick to vote in next week's vital House of Commons divisions…

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Man wrecks Vic. sawmill

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Sun.-- Police alleged tonight that a young man wrecked a Keilor sawmill and…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft open…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft open…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft open…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft open…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft open…

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2400 Miles' Sail in Open Ketch

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 26

HONOLULU.-- Two airmen travelled to Honolulu after a 2400-mile, 31-day voyage from San Francisco in a 25ft Open…

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Wreck of launch points to drownings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 1

GOSFORD, Tues.--A close friend of a man missing in a fishing launch today…

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Wreckage Of Launch Washed Up But No Sign of Two Men

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 1

GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Two fishermen are believed to have been drowned off Lion Island, near the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, in rough seas last night…

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Ketch to Make 7000-Mile Trip

Truth · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 2

PERTH, Saturday.—Trevor Tuckfleid and his wife will leave Fremantle tomorrow in a 30-foot auxiliary ketch on a…

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Ketch Is Their Home Two Couples Seeking Adventures

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 30 April 1950 · page 6

Two Australian couples believe that getting into a ketch and making for the open sea is the best way to happiness…

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Bold Bid To Beat The Red Wreckers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1

BACKED by a strong and definite mandate from the people at the elections last December, the Commonwealth Government has introduced legislation designed to outlaw the Communist Party and to remove its members from positions where they can harm the vital interests of this country. The Government's anti-Community bill has been welcomed in all…

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[?]ebergs To Raise Wrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 3

LONDON, May 4 (A.A.P.). —Mr. T. D. van Eggen, a Jo[?]nnesburg engineer and ex[?]orer, plans to raise wrecks…

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When Jack's ashore... Street women and sly-grog sellers prey on naval men

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 May 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Sly-grog sellers and street women were exploiting young naval ratings on weekend leave, according to a report issued by a Toe H investigating committee…

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R.L. Team's Vigorous Run Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 8

COLOMBO, May 7.— Four members of the British Rugby League team were unfit to turn out when the…

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