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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1881

5 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Telegrams. Wreck Of the Tararua. [Through Greville's Telegram.co.] Sydney

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 4 May 1881 · page 2

The steamer Tararua, bound from Dunedin to Melbourne, with eighty two Passengers and a crew of sixty on board, Atruck on Friday…

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Wreck of the Tararua

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1881 · page 4

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Wrecked at Sydney Heads

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1881 · page 4

AN [?] of a most [?] happened shortly after midnight on saturday, whereby a fine schooner of 199 tone, the [?] homeward bound from…

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A Shipwrecked Crew

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 November 1881 · page 4

EACH day brings forth news of shipwreck and loss of life occurring during the fearful gale of the 21st [?]time. Friday morning, at 2.30 a.m., as the steamer…

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Terrible Fire on Board a Steamer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 31 December 1881 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Dublin to the San Francisco Chronicle, dated 17th November, gives the following particulars regarding the explosion on the…

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