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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1887

2 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Wreck of a Barqur

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1887 · page 3

News has been received at San Francisco of the wreck of the barque Eldorado and the loss of 18 of her crew. The vessel went down on April…

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Wreck of the Steamer Perth

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1887 · page 4

The steamer Perth, with twenty passengers on board, bound from Carnarvon to Ashburton, West Australia, was totally wrecked on the…

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