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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

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£1,000 Fire in Ketch

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 25 January 1953 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Saturday.— An alarm, given by a man on duty on Birkenhead Bridge control tower, saved the…

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Salvage Of Metals From Wreck Nearly Completed By a Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 2

FIVE miles out to sea from Green Cape lighthouse, on the South Coast, a small ship is…

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Neil Harvey as "wrecker"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 February 1953 · page 50

If the South African touring cricketers are a little exasperated with Australia's 24-year-old Neil Harvey, they are…

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Lifeboat From Stricken Steamer Seeks Shelter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 1

A crowded lifeboat from the stricken British Railways steamer Princess Victoria shelters under the lee of a coaster. The Princess Victoria sank on Saturday in a hurricane about six miles from Larne, Northern Ireland…

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Intruder Wrecks suburban home

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1953 · page 3

AN intruder almost wrecked the interior of a Rockdale house last night, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage…

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Woman Shopping As Shower Of Bricks Wrecks Home

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 1

Five minutes after a woman had walked out of a cottage in Rozelle yesterday, an adjoining…

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Blast Wrecks Red Legation

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 9

TEL AVIV (Israel), Tuesday.--An explosion wrecked the interior of the Russian Legation here last night and injured three members of the…

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Wind Blast Wrecks Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 7

A fierce blast of wind at Rozelle yesterday fore away the upper half of a newly built factory wall and buried a nearby cottage in a pile of bricks…

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Legation Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3

TEL AVIV, Tues. (I.N.S.).--An explosion wrecked the Soviet legation here last night…

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Legation Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 5

TEL AVIV, Tues. (I.N.S.).--An explosion wrecked the Soviet legation here last night…

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Legation Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3

TEL AVIV, Tues. (I.N.S.).--An explosion wrecked the Soviet legation here last night…

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Legation Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 5

TEL AVIV, Tues. (I.N.S.).--An explosion wrecked the Soviet legation here last night…

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Legation Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 3

TEL AVIV, Tues. (I.N.S.).--An explosion wrecked the Soviet legation here last night…

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Lifeboat saved in heavy seas

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 7

A North Bondi surfboat crew last night saved a Bondi surfboat from destruction in heavy seas. Two of the crew of…

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Ftve Die in Lifeboat Capsizes On Mercy Trip

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 1

LONDON, February 10 (A.A.P.).—A lifeboat sent out from Fraserburg, east Scotland, capsized in heavy…

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Youth Is Target Of New Red Drive Hungarian Law Aims to Wreck Family Life

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 3

LONDON.—The Hungarian Reds have forced, a new "family" law on the people, aimed at destroying parental authority, weakening family ties and making youth an easier prey to Marxist indoctrination. Called the Family Act, the new law became effective at the beginning of this year…

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Steamer refloated

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 7

The steamer Mangola, ashore on a reef at Kar-kar Island, 35 miles from Madang for nearly a…

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Bodies surface by plane wreck

The Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Bodies floated to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico today from a National Airlines DC6 airliner which plunged into the sea in a 100 mph hurricane…

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Couple Take Ketch to Elope Court Told Of Romantic Escapade

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2

A young soldier and girl who were eloping to New Zealand in a ketch to get married, appeared in Manly Court today charged with stealing the ketch…

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Couple Take Ketch to Elope Court Told Of Romantic Escapade

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2

A young soldier and girl who were eloping to New Zealand in a ketch to get married, appeared in Manly Court today charged with stealing the ketch…

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