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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1863

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

The Confederate Steamer Alabama

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1863 · page 6

It will be in the recollection off our readers that a short time ago the English Government entered into engagements with several English and Scotch firms for swift heavily…

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The Shipwrecked

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 March 1863 · page 6

Deshed on the reef, the buoyant brave, That with the sun of yesterday, A proudly stemm'd the ocean wave, Shatter'd and broken lay;…

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The Wreck of H.m.s.s. Orpheus

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 20 March 1863 · page 6

The story of the wreck of H.M.S. Orphens has yet to be told. No one seems, up to this hour, to understand clearly how it was that, at noon-day, in the finest weather, at the…

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Later European and American News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1863 · page 5

THE Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Northam arrived at Melbourne on Saturday evening, bringing European and American news to April 2…

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