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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1878

4 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Wreck of the Ship Loch Ard. MELBOURNE

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1878 · page 3

THE news of the rescue of Miss Carmichael from the wreck of the Loch Ard is most romantic. She spoke of a desk of her father's as containing…

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Wreck of the James Service. Perth

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1878 · page 4

A BODY was washed ashore, and has been identified as that Mrs. Towers. It was quite naked. It had a band round the waist, and there was a wedding ring…

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The Wreck of the Dunbar. a Poem by the Late Mr. Samuel Bennett

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1878 · page 4

HER broad wing spreading to the breeze, she sailed in all her pride For the shores of far Australia-o'er the waste of waters wide; France on her weather quarter-on her lee our…

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Sumour. Went Ashore

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 7 December 1878 · page 2

"SHE pretty hot, ain't she?" said a backwoods passenger, addressing the engineer of a Mississippi steamer, that was racing with another boat…

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