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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951

475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 24

Smokes Seized From Steamer

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 March 1951 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Friday.-- Customs officers yesterday seized 18,000 cigaretets and 1000 cigars from the…

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Menzies: "This is not the end of the fight" New Govt. Move on Communists Warning given to "wreckers"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 1

The Federal Government would find a way to fight the Communists, the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies) said last night. He was speaking after the High Court had declared the…

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P.M.Wrecks State Plot

Truth · Sunday 11 March 1951 · page 44

KARACHI, Saturday.—The Prime Minister of Pakistan (Liaquat Ali Khan) this week…

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Nighties are best for glamor, says model Pyjamas 'wreck marriage'

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 March 1951 · page 7

Melbourne mannequin Claire Einsiedel believes that woman's pyjamas…

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Plane Rules Book Still In Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 4

HONGKONG, Monday.--Found almost undamaged in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed 26 persons was a U.S. naval Bureau aeronautics booklet, "The Warm…

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Plane Rules Still In Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 4

HONGKONG, Monday.--Found almost undamaged in the wreckage of d plane crash which killed 26 persons was a U.S. naval Bureau aeronautics booklet. "The Warm…

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Plane Rules Book Still In Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 4

HONGKONG, Monday.--Found almost undamaged in the wreckage of a plane crash which killed 26 persons was a U.S. naval Bureau aeronautics booklet, "The Warm…

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Wool Tax 'Not Wrecking Graziers'

The Land · Friday 23 March 1951 · page 8

TOOWOOMBA, Wed.-Although we do not like the 20 per cent. wool tax deduction plan,…

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True Crime Alibi of the Wrecked auto Nature stepped in and defeated the plans for a "perfect" murder

The World's News · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 6

IT was a keen young mind that directed one of the most devilish murder plots ever carried out in the State of Georgia, USA, and it…

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Wreckage Sighted in Plane Search

The Sun · Saturday 24 March 1951 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Flares and wreckage have been sighted in the Atlantic 450 miles west of Shannon near where the US Globemaster transport plane with 53 men vanished yesterday…

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Wreckage Clue to Lost Plane

Truth · Sunday 25 March 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Saturday.—Flares and wreckage seen yesterday 450 miles west of Shannon (Eire) have roused hopes for the missing Globemaster transport plane with its 53 passengers and crew,…

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Bomb Raid Wrecked Life

Truth · Sunday 25 March 1951 · page 7

Stripped to the waist, diggers sweated in the tropical sun as they unloaded ammunition at Buna on September 23, 1943. Suddenly Jap planes appeared and, swooping low,…

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Wreckage Seen Off Irish Coast Air-sea search for giant U.S. plane LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 25 March 1951 · page 3

Wreckage and flares have been sighted in the Atlantic near where the giant American Globemaster plane vanished yesterday…

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Seas nearly wreck Catalina

The Sun · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 4

SANTIAGO (Chile), Tuesday.--Frigate Bird II, the Catalina flvina-boat in which Captain P. G. Taylor pioneered the route to Chile…

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Groupers are Liberal agents Wreckers’ Bid to Return Menzies

Tribune · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 8

Facing widespread opposition to his policy of war, repression and super-profits, Menzies is pinning his hopes of a return to power on the anti-working class activities of Industrial…

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Steamer in Street

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 5

PEOPLE cheered this 1924 Stanley steam car in Sydney streets…

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Fire-float, Ketch Collide In Rose Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 3

A Civil Aviation Department's fire-float and a 35-foot ketch collided in the path of a flying-boatwhich…

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Men wreck boat to live

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 7

Six people drove a motor launch on to the rocks near Middle Head yesterday to save themselves from drowning…

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Ketch Turns Back

The Sun · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 11

The 109-ton ketch Miena, bound for the Solomon Islands, put back to Sydney early…

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Red Wreckers at Work Sabotage Allegations

Construction · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 5

Communist technical saboteurs were at work in Australian industries, the Managing director of the Ford Motor Company of Australia, Mr. C. A…

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