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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1871

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Wreck of the Rangoon. Point De Galle, November 2nd

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 6 December 1871 · page 4

The hour appointed for the Rangoon's departure was six p.m., and at that hour, although she had not received the local mails on board, she weighed anchor in order to…

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Wreck of an Emigrant Ship

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 4

On the night of the 25th September, a large iron full-rigged ship was observed to drive head foremost on to the rocks in the neighbourhood of Dunnosehead, midway between Bonchurch…

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Wreck the Rangoon. (From the Ceylon Obserzer, November 4. Point De Galle, Nov. 2nd, 1871

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 December 1871 · page 4

The hour appointed for the Rangoon’s departure was 6 p m., and at that hour, although she had not received the local mail on board, she weighed anchor in order…

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Wreck of the City of Venice

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 December 1871 · page 8

INTELLIGENCE of the loss of the iron clipper ship City of Venice comes to us by way of Mauritius. The City of Venice was a fine large iron clipper of 1199 tons, belonging to…

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