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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

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Incidents of the Wreck

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 3

Some incidents of the wreck are gathered from various sources:— Among the names of those saved is that of the Rev. W. Poole. This gentleman was formerly…

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The Wreck of the Ly-ee-moon. Coroner's Inquest

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 3

THE coroner, Mr. Magnus J. Peden, went from Eden on Tuesday and opened an inquest at Green Capo at 6.45 p.m, in the lighthouse keeper's house. There were present Mr. T. Rawlinson, solicitor, watching…

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The Wreck of the Ly-ee-moon

The Yass Courier · Friday 11 June 1886 · page 4

THE Echo says:-- Mr. Whealen and Mr. Walter were the only men in the surf when the mast fell with the first survivors. Whealen saved six and Walter two. Walter was also holding a rope…

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Wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 12 June 1886 · page 3

MR. E. A. WHOLOHAN, hon. see of the Goulburn Amateur Dramatic Club, has received the following note from the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan in reply to a communication soliciting his patronage for the…

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Wrecks on the Coast of New South Wales

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1886 · page 4

THE recent terrible disaster to the steamship Ly-ce-Moon, and the awful loss of life which accompanied it, is the most fatal occurrence of the kind that has ever taken…

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Select Poetry. the Wreck of the Ly[?]ee-moon. at Green Cape. Sunday Night, May 30, 1886

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 4

Out on the ocean that ship holds her way, Out on the sea at the close of the day: On with her human freight, On to her direful fate,…

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The Women of Mumbles Head! a True Story of a Lifeboat. Poem for Recitation

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 24 July 1886 · page 3

BRING, novelists, your note-books! bring, dramatists, your pen! And I'll tell you a simple story of what women do for men…

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The Corangamite Ashore

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 December 1886 · page 4

ON Monday morning considerable excitement was occasioned in Sydney by a report that Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co's fine steamship Corangamite had gone ashore in Wreck…

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The Corangamite Wreck

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 3

THE new and well-built steamer Corangamite, the latest edition to Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co’s fine line of steamers, which arent ashore in. Wreck Hay, hear Jervis Bay, [?]arly on Monday,…

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The Wreck of the Corangamite

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 3

The following telegram has been received from Captain J. M. Banks, who went down to the Corangamite:—"The steamer Tasmania arrived at the Corangamite at one…

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