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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
5 stories in Illawarra's papers
It was a night in October, 1880, that the good ship "Queen of Nations 1500 tons, came up the East Coast of New South Wales, bound from Liverpool, England, to Sydney. She was heavily laden with a mixed cargo, which consisted of railway rails, pianos, candles, wine and spirits…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Iron Chief the fourth new steamer built abroad for the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd., has arrived in port…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the early hours of Wednesday morning, the Adelaide Steamship inter-State vessel, Kapara, 846 tons, struck Wollongong Island, and at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Early on Wednesday morning the small cargo steamer Kapara ran aground on one of the five islands off Port Kembla, known as…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Ambulance men have to be prepared to meet any emergency that may arise in the course of their duty. Bearer W. Simpson, of the Illawarra…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →