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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1954

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Escaped Wreck; Facing Trial

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 7

SALZBURG, Wed. (B.U.P.).--Manfred Lentner, alias Walter Prexmarer, chief engineer aboard the ill-fated yacht Kangaroo,will be tried today for murder and double…

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Escaped Wreck Facing Trial

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 7

SALZBURG, Wed. (B.U.P.).--Manfred Lentner, alias Walter Prexmarer, chief engineer aboard the ill-fated yacht Kangaroo,will be tried today for murder and double…

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Escaped Wreck, Facing Trial

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 7

SALZBURG, Wed. (B.U.P.).--Manfred Lentner, alias Walter Prexmarer, chief engineer aboard the ill-fated yacht Kangaroo, will be tried today for murder and double…

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Man with a flair for finding bad roads North-west tracks have wrecked itinerary of

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 8

BOGGED down in the eastern Kimberleys at this moment is a man with a…

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Shipwreck Survivor on Trial

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 May 1954 · page 4

SALZBURG, Thursday (B.U.P.).--Manfred Lentner, who survived a shipwreck in which…

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Blast from north wrecks Labor's election platform

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 8

A DEVASTATING blast from the north last night tumbled into ruins the…

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Quakes wreck homes

The Sun · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 41

ATHENS, Thursday. --Thousands of panic-stricken people fled their homes yesterday…

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Gale Drives Ship Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 May 1954 · page 7

NEW YORK, Sat.--A gale drove the Honduran freighter Omar Babun aground on the North…

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A Murder Plot That Failed Wrecked a Marriage

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1954 · page 50

BRISBANE, Saturday.—A woman who, four years ago, plotted the cold-blooded murder of her husband while he sat fishing at night on a Bayside Jetty and subsequently was sent to gaol…

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The Rise and Fall of a Newspaper —How the Labor Daily Was Wrecked This is another instalment in the series Politics From Inside

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1954 · page 40

For more than 50 years I have been involved in Labor newspapers. As a lad, I ran copy and turned the "mangle" of a flat-press to help bring out one of the first "underground" Labor papers in this city…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 4

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000- ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today off Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 6

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000 ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today off Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 4

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today off Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 4

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000- ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today oil Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 6

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000- ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today off Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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Tug to Rescue of Drifting Steamer

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 6

The Sydney tug Woona took a drifting 7000- ton British freighter, the St. Edmund, in two at dawn today off Jervis Bay after an all-night drive at top speed through freshening seas…

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"Drink the Worst Wrecker of Homes"

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 10

INDIANAPOLIS.—Excessive drinking is a far more dangerous threat to a happy marriage than an interfering mother-in-law, Father John A. O'Brien, of the University of Notre Dame, said…

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New System "Wrecked Waterside Discipline"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 May 1954 · page 11

Two foremen stevedores said yesterday that a new system of boards of reference had destroyed discipline on the…

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Cinderella the wrecker

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Mon. -- Stories like Cinderella helped to wreck homes, Dr. J. D. Kershaw told a meeting of magistrates and probation officers. Dr. Kershaw is…

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Drink As Wrecker of Homes

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 5

In five of seven divorce suits he had disposed of in two days, alcohol was the cause of the wrecked…

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