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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1951

475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 24

Yacht Ashore; Perilous Swim By Crew

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 10 June 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday.— Six men to-night swam 100 yards through dangerous rocks, in heavy surf, after…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Big Seas Batter Ketch Aground

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Mon.--The ketch Nelcebee, which ran aground near York Peninsula early on Saturday, is…

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Waterside workers will wreck their own union

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 8

THE Waterside Workers' Federation has lifted its black ban against…

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Missing Launch Wreckage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 5

Police believe they have found wreckage from a 20ft. launch in which two men…

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Around-world Yacht Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Wednesday. —The 38-foot ketch Christine ran aground early to-day on the ocean beach at…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors or the Steamer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer Anglo Saxon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer Anglo Saxon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Castaways Who Drifted 70 Days Were "Saved by Compass Cocktail Survivors of the Steamer Anglo Saxon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 15

ON the sunny morning of October 30, 1940, a party of negroes combing a Bahama beach came across the unconscious figures of two white men lying on the sand…

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Bradley tells why US wrecked Big Four talks

Tribune · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 7

The Western Powers have broken off the conference of Foreign Ministers ‘ Deputies , declaring that “ no useful purpose could be served in continuing the talks” . THIS fact and many others…

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Clearing the Wreckage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 1

Police, firemen, and railwaymen working to clear the wreckage of last night's rail smash and to recover the body of the guard who was trapped in the wreckage of the guard's van (in the centre of the picture). The petrol waggon on the right has been pulled clear by another locomotive…

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