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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1849

2 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Wreck of the Brig Scamander, and Loss of Seventeen Lives

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1849 · page 3

BY the Marian Watson, from the Isle of Pines, intelligence has been received of the wreck of the brig Scamander, 192 tons, Captain Rule, from Sydney the 27 January…

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Dreadful Fatality on Board the Steamer "Londonderry."

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 April 1849 · page 2

We yesterday furnished such particulars of the loss of life on board of the London-derry as could be ascertained at the time; and the principal statements of which had…

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