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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

6 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Wreck of the Tairoa. AUCKLAND

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 14 April 1886 · page 2

The steamship Tairoa, a vessel of 500 tons, belonging to the Union Company, and bound from Wellington to Lyttleton, went ashore near…

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Late Telegrams. The Shipwreck. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 3

THE excitement throughout the city yesterday over the wreek of the steamship Ly-ee Moon was intense. All day, outside the telegraph Office…

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Telegrams. Wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon. SYDNEY, Monday. 10.20 a.m

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 2

NEWS has just been received that the Lyee-Moon, from Melbourne, is a total wreck off Green Cape Shestruck the reef last night at 9 o'clock…

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Telegrams. The Shipwreck. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

At the inquest on the bodies washed ashore from the wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon, the jury found that the deceased met with their deaths through…

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Wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon. SYDNEY

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

The Government steamer, Captain Cook, left Eden for Sydney yesterday with some of the survivors of the Ly-ee-Moon wreck, with the…

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Late Telegrams. Ly-ee-Moon Wreck. SYDNEY, Tuesday morning

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1886 · page 2

FOTHERINGHAM, the third, officer of the wrecked steamer Ly-ee-Moon, who had been remanded from Eden on a charge of manslaughter,…

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