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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

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Missing Raaf Planes More wreckage found on two beaches

The Sun · Sunday 3 May 1953 · page 3

TWO men yesterday, discovered wreckage which may have come from one of the two fighter planes missing from Williamtown RAAF…

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Men Find Wreckage of Jet

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 May 1953 · page 11

Men yesterday found wreckage believed to have come from a missing…

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Wreckage May Be Clue To Lost Plane

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 3 May 1953 · page 1

Aircraft parts that might have come from the R.A.A.F Mustang and Vampire fighter aircraft missing from…

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Missing Ketch Reported Safe

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.-- An author and his wife, who were reported missing in their 30ft. ketch for the…

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Missing Ketch Reported Safe

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Monday.-- An author and his wife, who were reported missing in their 30ft. ketch for the…

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Missing Ketch Reported Safe

Daily Mirror · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 9

ADELAIDE, Monday.-- An author and his wife, who were reported missing in their 30ft. ketch for the…

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507 Rescued From Wrecked U.k. Ferry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 4

LONDON, Wed.--Rescue craft today picked up 437 passengers and the crew of 70 from the British Railways ferry Duke of York, which collided with art American freighter this morning…

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Trapped in Wreck 4 Ferry Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (Extel.).--Three bodies were found on board the bartered ferry Duke of York last night and one of the rescued passengers died in hospital early this…

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Trapped in Wreck 4 Ferry Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (Extel.).--Three bodies were found on board the battered ferry Duke of York last night and one of the rescued passengers died in hospital early this…

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Trapped in Wreck 4 Ferry Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (Extel.).--Three bodies were found on board the battered ferry Duke of York last night and one of the rescued passengers died in hospital early this…

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Experiment Wrecked by Vandals

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK (A.P.) Vandalism appears to have dashed the Bronx Zoo's hopes of producing…

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Experiment Wrecked by Vandals

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK (A.P.).-- Vandalism appears to have dashed the, Bronx Zoo's hopes of producing…

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Experiment Wrecked by Vandals

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 18

NEW YORK (A.P.).-- Vandalism appears, to have dashed the Bronx Zoo's hopes of producing…

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Experiment Wrecked by Vandals

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK (A.P.).-- Vandalism appears to have dashed the Bronx Zoo's hopes of producing…

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Cloud that wrecks a plane

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 14

NOBODY yet knows why the Comet crashed a few minutes after taking off from…

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Ketch Peer Gynt in Trouble Again

The Sun · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 5

NOUMEA, Wednesday.--Sydney couple, Norman Rome, 34, and his fiancee, Sylvia Roach, 23, who…

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Nine Die In Lake Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 12 (A.A.P.).—Fourteen survivors and nine bodies were picked up yesterday from an…

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Pilot Steamer Looks Like New

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 May 1953 · page 13

The pilot steamer Captain Cook arrived in Sydney from Newcastle last night with the trim appearance of a new…

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How Canada rescues alcoholics When an Australian university student realised that alcoholism was going to wreck his career, he decided on action which led to his cure

The World's News · Saturday 16 May 1953 · page 16

NOBODY ever believes he will become an alcoholic. Yet they all begin in much the same way by being "one of the boys." They don't…

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Attempt to wreck plane

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 4

MEXICO CITY, Mon. (U.P.).--Two men have been charged with having made an…

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