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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1865

2 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Accident to the Telegraph (s.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1865 · page 2

MR. POWELL, the Chief Officer, on board the Telegraph, reports: "That on Sunday last, at 10 p.m., when about two miles north of the North Solitary, the eccentric of the port wheel connecting…

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Dreadful Boiler Explosion at the Waterview Dry Dock Three Persons Killed and Seven Seriously Injured

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1865 · page 3

A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the Dry Dock, Balmain, between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, when three persons—Joseph Porter, John Gordon, and Robert Craig—were killed by the…

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