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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1885

2 stories in Illawarra's papers

Wreck at Bellambi

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 19 June 1885 · page 4

THE schooner Little Pet, which has been a regular trader in the coal business between Wollongong and Sydney, for upwards of a quarter of a century, became a total wreck…

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The Wreck of the Cahors

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 30 June 1885 · page 4

A TELEGRAM from the "Herald's Correspondent at Brisbane on Friday last, says:—The following account of the wreck of the Cabors, drawn up by a…

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