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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1866

5 stories in Murray's papers

Murray River Launches and Shipwrecks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 14 July 1866 · page 2

IF matters go on long as they have commenced this season we shall certainly have to devote a weekly column to “ Shipping Intelligence on the Murray,” and have to keep our own…

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The Wreck of the Steamer Cawarra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 2

While disasters and events, by flood and field, are causing anxiety and mourning throughout the old world with wars, shipwrecks and pestilence in their train, Australia…

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Disastrous Shipwrecks

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 28 July 1866 · page 2

A long catalogue of distressing shipwrecks and loss of life all round the coast of Australia has come to band since our last. On Monday a telegram to the following effect…

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The New Murray River Steamer Cumberoona Snagged

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 4 August 1866 · page 3

This new steamer, which left Echuca on Thursday afternoon for Wahgunyah and Albury, with Mr. M‘Culloch and Mr. Higinbotham among her passengers, struck a snag when she had gone about 150…

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The Steamer Kennedy. To the Editor of the Pastoral Times

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 October 1866 · page 3

SIR,—I note in your [?] of the 22nd [?] that your Wentworth correspondent in reporting the arrival of the Steamer Kennedy at this port with lead of wool from the Darling states that it was landed in [?]…

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