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Snowy Mountains & Monaro · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898

16 stories in Snowy Mountains & Monaro's papers

Wreck of a Steamer. SYDNEY, This Day

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1898 · page 3

The steamer Lubra has been wrecked on the West Autralian Coast, bat there was no loss of life…

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The Steamer Ranelagh. SYDNEY, This Day

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1898 · page 2

All attempts to pump out the steamer Ranelagh, which was stranded at Bundaberg are so far unsuccessful…

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Overdue Steamer. SYDNEY, This Day

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 7 March 1898 · page 3

No tidings have yet been received of the steamer Fiado, now overdue at Nonmes. She had three passengers on board…

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A Total Wreck. SYDNEY, This Day

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 7 March 1898 · page 3

The Herman barque, Franz, which left Freemantle a couple of months ago for the Caps now lies a total wreck off the, South African…

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CABLEGRAMS. The China Ashore. LONDON

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1898 · page 3

The steamship China went ashore on Thursday evening during a thick haze. Mails, specie, and passengers were transhipped to Carthage…

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A Terrible Wreck

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 7 April 1898 · page 5

THE inhabitants of Fiji Islands the other day discovered that here a terrible wreck on their shores Yet We discover wrecks in our [?] every day We…

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War News. Spain and America. Spanish Fleet Annihilated Portion of Manilla in Flames. Capture of a Spanish Steamer

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1898 · page 2

The Americans found no mines at the entrance to Manills. No [?]esrohlights were used by the forts…

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Getting a Line Ashore. Heroes of the Occasion

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 6

"As we rested there we could do nothing till daylight. Then we lowered the starboard quarter-boat and starboard life-boat, in the hope…

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A Dreadful Night on the Wreck a Baby Mascott

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1898 · page 6

"That was the beginning of an awful time. Just as they were 50 yards from the shore the line broke and the stewardess and the chief…

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Wreck of the Wendouree

Delegate Argus and Border Post · Thursday 28 July 1898 · page 4

THE Huddart Parker Proprietary Company's steamer Wendounree stranded on the Oyster Bank at the entrance to Newcastle Harbor, at an early hour on…

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Wreck of [?]

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1898 · page 3

The [?] was wrecked on the bar at port Macquarie, All has be were saved by the pilot boak The crew were…

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English Torpedo Boat Wrecked

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 1 August 1898 · page 3

A British torpedo boat destroyer of the fist-class has been wracked at Simmonstown, Cape Colony…

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Wreck of a French Cruiser

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 19 August 1898 · page 2

The French cruiser, La Perouse, was caught by a tidal wave at Madagascar and wrecked. Her consort, the Galilee, had a narrow…

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A Sperm Whale Ashore

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Friday 2 December 1898 · page 6

A whale of the hump backed sperm species went ashore on the Stockton, N.S.W., ocean beach late on Friday. It was first sighted…

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The Wreck of the Hereward

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 12 December 1898 · page 2

The ship Hereward, which was stranded some months since, on the beach near Coogee, is now fast breaking up…

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The Foundered Tug

The Manaro Mercury, and Cooma and Bombala Advertiser · Monday 19 December 1898 · page 2

At the inquest held at Newcastle on the body of the master of the tug Little Nell, which foundered last week, the jury returned a…

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