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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952

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Families Flee As Fire Wrecks Factory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 3

Families were evacuated from six houses threatened by a fire which destroyed the…

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Ship Aground: £25,000 Fishing Fleet Wrecked by Coastal Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

An 11,000 ton tourist liner ran aground, a £25,000 fishing fleet was wrecked, and widespread damage was caused in Sydney today by a cyclone which is now centred off the north coast of New South Wales…

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Ship Aground: £25,000 Fishing Fleet Wrecked by Coastal Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

An 11,000 ton tourist lister ran aground, a £25,000 fishing fleet was wrecked, and widespread damage was caused in Sydney today by a cyclone which is now centred off the north coast of New South Wales…

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Ship Aground: £25,000 Fishing Fleet Wrecked by Coastal Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

An 11,000 ton tourist liner ran aground, a £25,000 fishing fleet was wrecked, and widespread damage caused in Sydney by a cyclone now centred off the north coast of New South Wales…

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Fish Fleet Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

LISMORE. Sat.--A cyclone which struck without warning this morning wrecked all…

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Ship Aground: £25,000 Fishing Fleet Wrecked by Coastal Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

An 11,000 ton tourist liner ran aground, a £25,000 fishing fleet was wrecked, and widespread damage was caused in Sydney today by a cyclone which is now centred off the north coast of New South Wales. The Weather Bureau expects heavy rain to continue…

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Storm Wrecks Fishing Fleet Is K Rains Bring Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

A violent cyclone early this morning wrecked all but two of the Byron Bay fishing fleet. Almost continuous heavy rain, driven by powerful gusts of…

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Storm Wrecks Fishing Fleet As Big Rains Bring Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 June 1952 · page 1

A violent cyclone early this morning wrecked all but two of the Byron Bay fishing fleet. Almost continuous heavy rain, driven by powerful gusts of…

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75 Fishing Launches Wrecked; Ketch Missing 70 m.p.h. Gales Lash N.S.W. Coast; Heavy Losses

Truth · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 2

A 70-miles-an-hour cyclone, with fierce rain squalls, which lashed the New South Wales' coast from early yesterday morning, was still sweeping far northern centres last night, adding to the…

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Fishing Fleet Wrecked

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 June 1952 · page 3

A gale early yesterday wrecked most of the North Coast fishing fleet at Byron Bay. It smashed 15 of the 20 fishing boats tied…

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Ketch rode out storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

Three men who disappeared in a 40ft. ketch before a storm struck Byron Bay on Saturday morning…

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Why Americans want to wreck Glen Davis

Tribune · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 6

THE international oil kings have forty million reasons for bringing pressure to bear on the Menzies Government to…

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Wreck of Romance in Crete

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 4

ATHENS (A.P.).--Tassoula, the mountain bride of Cretan Romeo Costa Kephaloyannis,…

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Wreck of Romance in Crete

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 4

ATHENS (A.P.).--Tassoula, the mountain bride of Cretan Romeo Costa Kephaloyannis,…

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Appalling wreckage, inspiring courage in flood-swept Wagga By a Tribune reporter just returned from the flood areas

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 12

WAGGA.—The Murrumbidgee flood waters have hit Wagga and passed on their angry course, leaving behind a trail of immeasurable devastation and human tragedy—and the heroic determination of flood victims to return to life to once more restore the damage as best they can…

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Near-Completed Factory Wrecked

The St George Call · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 1

A nearly completed steel quanset factory 12x40ft. was completely wrecked during the height of the fierce storm on June 13 and 14 in Taren…

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Home shortage is wrecking our way of life

The Sun · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 10

"I lost one of my twins because of worry" -- "Practically all my savings have gone in search of a home"--"My husband and I and six…

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Salvage of Wrecks From Blue Danube

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 3

VIENNA (A.P.). -- The Russians, who have made the Blue Danube red, are salvaging…

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Salvage of Wrecks From Blue Danube

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 3

VIENNA (A.P.). --The Russians, who have made the Blue Danube red, are salvaging…

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Merman Comes Ashore Near Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 July 1952 · page 2

Barnacle Bill, the first dugong seen near Sydney since Captain Cook landed, sometimes waddles ashore near Barrenjoey lighthouse. Mr. E. H. McIlwraith, of the Barrenjoey Boat…

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