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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

3 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers

Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 17 July 1901 · page 3

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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Wrecked on Chesterfield [?]

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1901 · page 2

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tell it himself. "In [?] he says, [?] the…

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Wreck of the Pegasus

The Campbelltown Herald · Wednesday 6 November 1901 · page 5

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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