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The Smashed Timbers and Cradles on the Slipway
Aircraft carrier launches itself. This striking photograph was taken after the aircraft carrier "FORMIDABLE" broke away half an hour before LADY WOOD, wife of the air minister was to launch her. One woman was killed and 20 injured by the hurdling ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Sunken 'Helen Ann' in Lowestoft Harbour
Drifter hits Sandsank and sinks at Lowestoft. Leaving Lowestoft (Suffolk) for the herring grounds after the strike of drifter crews for seamen's rations, the drifter 'Helen Ann' of Banff, Scotland, struck a sandbank and was holed. She only just re...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Tanker, 'World Concord' Breaks in Two in Heavy Gale
Tanker breaks in two in heavy gale. This is what happened when the "World Concord", a big tanker of over 20,000 tons, broke in two during a strong gale in the Irish sea, off the west coast of England. On the left, the bows and fore-part of the ves...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The car that ran over four people
The picture shows the deadly car that ran over four people at Puttamala city, parked by the road after the accident.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Tanker breaks in two: all crew rescued. All members of the crew have been rescued from the "World Concord", the big tanker of over 20,000 tons, which broke in two during the heavy gale in the Irish Sea, off the west coast of England. Both halves r...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Three Men and a Girl were Trapped when a Lorry Overturned onto their Car
Three men and a girl were trapped when a lorry overturned on to their car and covered it with liquid cement at the junction of Battersea Bridge Rd., and Battersea Park Rad, England. One of the passengers in the car, Mr. William James Gadd (24) of ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Three victims of the bus mishap at Dowa, Bandarawela, have still not been identified. Their bodies were brought to the Medico-Legal Morgue, Colombo, this morning. Their descriptions as reported in out Lane Edition yesterday are as follows :— (1) A...
The Times of Ceylon Press
