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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1857

2 stories in Murray's papers

[?] of the Lyonnals Steamer. Loss of 130 Lives

The Border Post · Saturday 21 February 1857 · page 1

On the 1st of November the iron steamship Lyonnais, built in Liverpool this year, and belonging, to the France-American Company, sailed from New York to Havre,…

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Wreck at Sydney Heads. Loss of the Catherine Adamson. TWSHTI-OHBXJVESLOST.(From Saturday's Sydney Papers.)

The Border Post · Saturday 7 November 1857 · page 3

It is our painful duty to report another disastrous shipwreck at the Heads. Within the period of sixty-five days of the destruction of the…

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