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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1952

548 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 28

Johnson Wrecks West Australia

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 8

BRISBANE, Sat.--Due to devastating bowling by medium-fast Len Johnson, who took seven wickets for 43, Queensland dismissed West Australia for the meagre total…

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Johnson Wrecks West Australia

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 January 1952 · page 10

BRISBANE, Sat. -- Sensational bowling for Queensland by madium-fast bowler Len Johnson featured the pre-lunch session in the Shield match against West Australia at…

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Wreckage Sighted

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 1

SEATTLE, January 12 (A.A.P.).—Coastguard aircraft and a search vessel reported last night that they…

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£5,000 a day from ocean bed Wreck Yields Treasure Eden

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1952 · page 40

A CONVERTED Thames mud-hopper, built to take dredged mud to sea, is earning money from the ocean floor at a rate which may soon exceed £5000 a day. The vessel, Foremost 17, is recovering copper, lead and…

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Tanker Ashore in Heavy Gale

The Sun · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Monday. -- The Panamanian tanker Sovac Radiant went aground last night in one…

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Pilot, Hostess Die in Air Crash Burnt-out Shell of Plane After Crash Boy Walks Out Of Plane Wreckage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

An air hostess was burnt to death and the pilot died of injuries when an Avro Anson twinengined passenger aircraft crashed and burst into flames at Padstow, on the East Hills line, about…

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Captain Persuaded To Leave Wrecked Ship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 14 (A.A.P.).—The French captain of the freighter Agen (4,196 tons)…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washed to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups. of burly, hard muscled, Sea booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washed to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard-muscled, Sea-booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washed to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard muscled, Sea-booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washer to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

A T dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard-muscled, Sea booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washes to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard muscled, Sea-booted smugglers gathered in 1 countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washed to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard muscled, Sea-booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Vilest Smuggler of All Was Washed to Power From Wreck

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 15

AT dusk on almost every fine evening in the 18th and early 19th centuries, groups of burly, hard-muscled, Sea booted smugglers gathered in countless secluded coves around…

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Launch Goes Ashore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 1

A 34-foot motor cruiser with four men aboard which ran aground on the beach at Curl Curl…

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Launch Goes Ashore

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 1

A 34-foot motor cruiser with four men aboard, which ran aground oh the beach at Curl Curl…

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Suits and Dresses of Woven Air When a grain of matter can wreck a city, you'll know the future of atomic pressure has arrived

The World's News · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 15

THERE may be some eerie times coming when scientists build the first workable "nested," high-pressure machines forecast by…

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Tasman Race to Nz Ketch Auckland, Sat

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1952 · page 3

THE Auckland ketch Ladybird won the 1952 Tasman yacht race today…

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Nine lives lost in shipwreck

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 4

HONGKONG, Monday.-- The Admiralty disclosed last night that the British - registered…

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Could be wrecker

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 18

I am a young married woman, mother of a family. Being young and attractive, I still crave the excitement…

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