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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

27 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 2

For Shipwrecked Sailors. Shelter Sheds on Kangaroo Island

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 4

The Gunboat Protector, which left Port Adelaide on Monday 26th August, on a cruise with the naval reserve, took two shelter huts to be erected on the…

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Wrecked On Chesterfield Reef

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 4

NOBODY can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. 'In 1891,' he says, ' I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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Wrecked On Chesterfield Reef

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Saturday 21 September 1901 · page 5

NOBODY can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. In 1891,' he says, 'I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 2 October 1901 · page 6

NOBOBY can tell the following story better than the writer tells himself. in [?] he says, ' I first experienced the [?]…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 9 October 1901 · page 6

NOBODY can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. 'In 1891,' he says, 'I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was…

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Wreck of the Pegasus

The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal · Wednesday 30 October 1901 · page 3

About half-an-hour after midnight on Thursday morning, 20th July, 1813, the steamship Pegasus, having started from Leith, on the east coast of Scotland, on…

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Wreck of the Royal Tar

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1901 · page 2

The barque Royal Tar, known to many old local skipping identities, was totally wrecked near Auckland on Tuesday morning…

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