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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1956

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Fear Japanese Slave Labor to Salvage War Wrecks

Tribune · Wednesday 31 October 1956 · page 9

Four ships sunk in Darwin harbor by the Japanese during their death-dealing raids of the last war are to be sold to Japanese interests for scrap. They will pay salvage…

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Non-Magnetic Schooner

Tribune · Wednesday 7 November 1956 · page 9

Schooner Zarya was built in the USSR for use in geophysical year…

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Freak Willy Willy Farmhouse Wrecked

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 November 1956 · page 2

With amazing rapidity a "willywilly" tore the roof off a farm house in Farm Road, Mulgoa, at midday on Sunday…

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Dutch coast-dwellers wreckage minded Now brave voluntary life-savers

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 7 December 1956 · page 5

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