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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

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6 Flee Reds in Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 March 1953 · page 5

BERLIN, Tues.-- The pleasure steamer Deutschland with six refugees aboard sailed through a hail of bullets into West Berlin yesterday…

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Sth. African Boxers Get. Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 6

Four colored South African boxers, restricted by immigration officials from leaving the…

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Sth. African Boxers Get Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 6

Four colored South African boxers, restricted by immigration Officials from leaving the…

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Sth. African Boxers Get Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 3

Four colored South African boxers, restricted, by immigration officials from leaving the…

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Sth.African Boxers Get Ashore

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 6

Four colored. South African boxers, restricted by immigration officials from leaving the…

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Coloured Boxers Let Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 3

Four coloured South African boxers who were prohibited from landing in Sydney on Thursday were…

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They Won't Let Mishaps Stop Their World Trip Ketch couple say they'll sail again

The Sun · Sunday 22 March 1953 · page 17

AN engaged couple who left Sydney last October to sail around the world in their 30ft ketch, Peer Gynt, returned to Sydney yesterday, having got no farther than New Caledonia…

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Wreckage Of Plane In Jungle

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 22 March 1953 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday.— An unidentified wrecked plane has been sighted in dense…

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Wrecked plane in jungle BRISBANE, Sat

The Sun · Sunday 22 March 1953 · page 64

WRECK of an unidentified plane has been sighted in dense jungle about…

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Seven Die in Shipwreck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Sun.--Seven men died of exposure when the 411-tons Grimsby trawler Leicester City went aground in dense fog…

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Search For Plane Wreck

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Mon.--Police and airforce men will seek a wrecked plane in north Queensland during…

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Search For Plane Wreck

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 6

BRISBANE, Mon.-- Police and airforce men will seek a wrecked plane in north Queensland during…

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Wreckage Of Plane Not Identified

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Monday. —R.A.A.F. Headquarters in Melbourne said to-day that aircraft wreckage seen…

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Air Search For Wreck

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Tues.-- An R.A.A.F. crew from No. 10 Garbutt Squadron will fly over the…

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Air Search For Wreck

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Tues. --An R.A.A.F. crew from No. 10 Garbutt Squadron will fly over the…

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Jet Pilot Lands in Sea, Wades Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 1

GOSFORD, Tuesday. —R.A.A.F. Pilot-Officer Barrymoore Thomas, of Warwick, Queensland,…

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Ship, Impaled On Wreck, A Total Loss

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 8

BRISBANE, Wednesday. —The 7,269-ton British freighter Kelvinbank, which went aground at Ocean…

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Freighter Stuck on Shaft of Wreck

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 12

BRISBANE, Wed. -- The British freighter Kelvinbank, impaled at Ocean Island on the 18-inch propeller shaft of a…

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Alleged Theft of 45-ft. KETCH Court Story Of Demand To Owner

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 2

The owner of a 45tr. ketch, allegedly stolen from North Harbor by d young girl an young men last month, said of Manly Court today…

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Ketch theft alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 10

Mr. Austin, S.M., yesterday committed for trial two men and a girl charged with…

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