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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
24 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 2
The steamer Wairarapa, which left Sydney on Thursday week for New Zealand, was wrecked at midnight on Sunday night on the Great Barrier Island,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Nowra Leader," referring to the recent loss of the steamer Wairarapa and loss of 135 lives, gives the following list of marine disasters. In 1870 the Dandenong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Among the survivors of the awful wreck of the Wairarapa on the New Zealand coast Mr. John Madden, of Balgownie appears to have behaved very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY last mail from New Zealand Alderman Geoghegan of Berry, received a letter from his son, who was amongst the passengers saved from the wreck of the s.s…
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