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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1903

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

Floating of the Steamer Hawkesbury

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 12

MR. E. J. Felton, visited Sackville Reach last week in the interests of the underwriters—the Queensland Insurance Company—in connection with the…

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A River Steamer Destroyed. THE S.S. Nakara Ablaze

Hawkesbury Herald · Friday 28 August 1903 · page 6

The s.s. Narara, owned by Messrs. Mitchell, Johnston, and Johnston, was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning last. It appears the boat had arrived…

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Fire on a Steamer

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Saturday 29 August 1903 · page 5

MESSRS Mitchell and Johnston's steamer Narara, which runs between the Hawkesbury and Sydney, caught fire on Sunday night while moored a short…

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