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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

14 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

Short Story Among the Wreckage

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 3

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Western Champion · Friday 21 June 1901 · page 13

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…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Western Champion · Friday 28 June 1901 · page 14

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…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 June 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 obliged to…

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The Shellharbour Wreck. Story of the Sole Survivor

Forbes Times · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 8

WALTER [?], who is believed to be the sole survivor of [?] of five of the steam [?] Berry, which was wrecked at Shellharbour on Sunday, had given a…

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Telegraphic. More Wrecks

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 10 July 1901 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—The Pilot at the Tweed River reports the picking up at Fingal Heads small parts of wreckage and a mans leg and foot with a…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 2

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 obliged to…

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Wreck of the Cobra. London

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 2

Further search for the survivors in the Cobra disaste has proved fruitless and has been abandoned. The Cobra was a sister ship of the…

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Steamer Overdue

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 23 October 1901 · page 2

The steamer Monowai is now four days overdue from New Zealand. It is feared her machinery has broken down…

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Wreck of the Pegasus

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 1 November 1901 · page 6

About half-an-hour after midnight on Thursday morning, 20th July, 1843, the steamship Pegasus, having started from Leith, on the east coast of Scotland, on…

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Wreck of the Pegasus

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1901 · page 7

About half-an-hour after midnight on Thursday morning, 20th July, 1843, the steamship Pegasus, having started from Lelth, on the east coast of Scotland, on…

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British Treasure Found in a Wreck

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 4

A SPECIAL telegram to the New York Sun, from Bennington, Vt., 26th September, says:— "Ten thousand English sovereigns,…

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Adventures Ashore and Afloat. (All Rights Reserved.) the Loss of the "Martha Warren," and What Followed. Chapter I.

Western Champion · Tuesday 24 December 1901 · page 1

Those who have read my previous narratives will remember that, on more than one occassion, I have referred to a certain "Jimmy Gray,"…

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Adventures Ashore and Alloat. (All Rights Reserved.) the Loss of the "Martha Warre" and What Followed. Chapter I.

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Wednesday 25 December 1901 · page 1

Those who have read my previous narratives will remember that, on more than one occasion, I have referred to a certain "Jimmy Gray,"…

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