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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

7 stories in Illawarra's papers

Fishing Party's Peril. Run Down by a Steamer

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 24 July 1906 · page 2

A MESSAGE from Wollongong on Friday last states that on the previous evening, shortly after dark, two fishermen named Kembla Howarth and Frederick Petersen,…

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Wrecked, but Rescued

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

IT will be seen by our advertising columns that Mr. G. E. Ardill, Director of the Sydney Rescue Work Society, is announced to delived an address entitled "Wreeked…

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Wrecked, but Rescued

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Friday 17 August 1906 · page 2

The Oddfellows' Hall, Kiama, was well filled on Monday evening last when Mr. G. E. Ardill delivered his address entitled Wrecked, but Rescued, being the story of…

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Wrecked but Rescued

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 August 1906 · page 1

In the Church-street Hall on Friday night, Mr. G. H. Ardill delivered his address entitled "Wrecked but Rescued." The Mayor (Ald. Beatson)…

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Fishing Steamer for Wollongong

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 2

We hear on the best of authority, that a long felt want is to be supplied to Wollongong, viz., an up-to-date fishing steamer. Mr. Joseph…

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A New Coastal Steamer

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 30 November 1906 · page 1

The departure from Liverpool for Sydney of the new passenger steamship Moruya, recently completed at home for the South Coast S. N…

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The Shifting Scene the Manly Steamer

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Saturday 22 December 1906 · page 6

Evening. The steamer leaving the Jetty. The upper deck is packed and jammed with miscellaneous collection of trippers…

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