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The Launch 'Beira 1'

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  • 1956-11-13

The launch "Beira I" which capsized in the harbor last Tuesday with a number of port labourers was salvaged with the assistance of divers and the Harbour Engineers crane.

The Times of Ceylon Press

The Royal Navy Submarine, Sidon

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  • 1955-6-28

The Royal Navy submarine, Sidon, recently sank at Portland Harbour, after an explosion. Thirteen of her crew were unaccounted for.

The Times of Ceylon Press

The South Goodwin

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  • 1954-11-28

Seven dead in British Lightship Disaster. Seven members of the crew lost their lives when the South Goodwin lightship dragged her moorings and drifted on to the notorious Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast of England. The vessel struck the sands and...

The Times of Ceylon Press

The U-Boats Strike

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  • 1952-10-16

The U-Boats strike. Three Allied cargo ships go to the bottom. And the U-boats which sank them close in to record the final moments. Televiewers will see these dramatic pictures, secret until now, on their television screens soon. They form part o...

The Times of Ceylon Press

The Wrecked Swedish Freighter 'Heimdal'

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  • 1987-4-12

An aerial view of the Swedish freighter "Heimdal", (7,000 tons D.W.), which was broken in two pieces by a recent storm in Baltic Sea. Heimdal, of Gothenburg, ran aground on the dangerous underwater rocks near the Landsort Lighthouse on the archipe...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Two of the Survivors of the 'Sidon'

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  • 1955-6-23

Two of the survivors of the "Sidon". They are (left) Commissioned Engineer Roy Edward Hawkins and (right) Petty Officer William Day of Glasgow. They were taken to hospital at Portland.

The Times of Ceylon Press

Van Crashed at Yakabokkuwa

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  • 1963-1-3

This is the van which crashed at "Yakabokkuwa" (devil's culvert), between Maho and Ambanpola on New Year's eve. Due to the impact, the driver and the passengers were thrown into the stream below. Six of the passenger are still in the hospital.

The Times of Ceylon Press

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