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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1879

6 stories in Murray's papers

Collision Between a Steamer and a Torpedo Boat

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 11 January 1879 · page 2

We learn from Constradt the following particulars of two accidents which occurred last Week to the torpedo flotilla under Admiral Schmidt, now Engaged in practising…

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Wreck of the Steamer Kerangie

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 February 1879 · page 19

A telegram was received from Gabo Island on Sunday afternoon last, announcing the wreck of the steamer Kerangie, at Cape Eve[?]ard, at 10 p.m. on Friday, during a dense fog…

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Monster Ferry Steamer

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 19 July 1879 · page 15

There is being constructed at the shipyards of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, at Oakland Point, under the superintendence of Arthur Brown, a mammoth steamer, which is intended…

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Mail Steamer Totally Wrecked. Bombay, Oct. 26th

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 29 October 1879 · page 2

The Peninsular and Oriental mail steamer Hindostan has been totally wrecked near Madras; it is supposed to have taken place during a heavy cyclone, and it is not known…

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European Telegrams. the Accident to the Mail Steamer Australia. London, October [?]

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 November 1879 · page 6

The accident to the P. and O. mail steamer Australia occurred off Ushant on Friday last. The steamer Trentham Hall passing at the time succeeded in taking the disabled vessel in tow,…

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Wreck of the Steamer John Penn

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 15

I have just returned (says a correspondent of the “Herald”) from seeing the wreck of the John Penn, at Burrowarra Point situated six miles from the Moruya Heads, and twelve miles from…

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