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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953

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Twenty-eight men defied death Their ship wrecked in an icy wilderness, a courageous group of explorers fought their way to safety against fearful odds. a True Adventure Story

The World's News · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 26

AT four o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, October 27. 1915. 28 men stood on the sea ice off the barren shores of the Antarctic…

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May Be B25 Plane Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 11

The wreck of a plane located by an R.A.A.F. Lincoln bomber 17 miles southwest of Townsville…

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May Be B25 Plane Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 11

The wreck of a plane located by an R.A.A.F. Lincoln bomber 17 miles southwest of Townsville…

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Stop Press Plane Wreck

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 12

The wreck of a plane Located by an R.A.A.F. Lincoin bomber 17 miles South-west of Townsville…

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Women Dragged Ashore By Hair In Sea Rescue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

MULLUMBIMBY, Sunday.—Clive Hammond, 22, of Mullumbimby, swam 400 yards through heavy surf…

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Heavy Passengers Ashore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 4

Two elephants preparing to disembark from the liner Wanganella at Darling Harbour yesterday. The elephants are in Wirth's Circus, which returned yesterday from a tour of New Zealand…

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Cache found on steamer

The Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 29

A cache of smuggled goods was discovered to-day by Customs officers in the refrigerating…

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Army in wrecked township

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 5

Mon. -- Army experts today set off bombs left by the explosion of a…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 4

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.).-- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 15

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.). -- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 4

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.). -- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 6

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.).-- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 15

' NAIROBI,, Tuesday (B.U.P.). — Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing Cen-…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 15

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.). -- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Wreck Sighted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 March 1953 · page 4

NAIROBI, Tuesday (B.U.P.). -- Air reconnaissance yesterday showed the wreckage of a missing…

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Bond for Men Illegal Use Of Ketch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1953 · page 5

Two young men who seized a ketch in the Harbour, set out on a voyage to New Zealand[?]…

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Steamer Hit by Submarine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 April 1953 · page 3

ROTTERDAM, Saturday (A.P.).--An unidentified submarine collided with the Swedish steamer…

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Steamer Hit by Submarine

Daily Mirror · Saturday 4 April 1953 · page 3

ROTTERDAM, Saturday (A.P.).--An unidentified submarine collided with the Swedish steamer…

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Ten Houses Wrecked Mine Workings Caved In

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sunday. — Ten miners' homes were wrecked by a cave-in of mine workings under the township of Pelaw…

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Mine Subsidence Wrecks Homes People flee as ground opens

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Sun. -- Houses at Pelaw Main today crashed several feet into a deep fissure which opened in Wallsend Street when the earth over old mine-shafts subsided…

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