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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899

6 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1899 · page 4

A considerable amount of well deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total…

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Steamer Excursion

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 12

THE steamer excursion to Wiseman's Perry, arranged by the Windsor Half-holiday Association, took place on Wednesday last, and was a great success from every point of view. The steamer…

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A Fatal Plunge. Terrible Wreck—trembling Above the Seething Abyss—help Arrives at the Last Second— She Looks Back on Her Peril with Dread

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Friday 17 March 1899 · page 4

It falls to the lot of few to know the dangers of shipwreck or to feel that mad panic which seizes on the brain when the heart fails at the sight…

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A Steamer Sunk

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

THE "Easter Morn" a trading steamer, belonging to Mr Grimwood, sank in the river near Sackville Reach last Tuesday morning The vessel was secured to the river bank by a plank, and listed to…

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Chapter Xxxvii. the Strange Schooner

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 6 October 1899 · page 3

There is the schooner! See! The cry fairly burst in a yell from the lips of a midshipman on board the United States vessel-of-war at anchor…

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Chapter Li. Wrecked

Hawkesbury Advocate · Friday 3 November 1899 · page 1

Upon arriving in New Orleans, Luhne, the buccaneer's wife, sought to find a hiding-place. She knew not where to go—what to do. But in…

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