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New England · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1877

5 stories in New England's papers

Massacre on Board the Douglas Schooner

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 21 March 1877 · page 3

FROM our (Brisbane Courier) correspondent at Cairns we learn that a magisterial enquiry was held there on February 22, before Mr. E. Morey, P.M., and D. Spence, J.P., regarding the murder…

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Railroad Wreckers

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 May 1877 · page 7

EVERY condition of human life and society (observes the ' San Francisco Chronicle') has its own drawbacks. There is no peculiar benefit or blessing that is…

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Foundering of the Steamer Yarra Yarra, and Loss of All Hands

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 July 1877 · page 3

THE excitement consequent upon the loss sustained in marine and social circles, by the wreck of the steamship Dandenong on the 11th of September, 1876, has scarcely passed away…

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Destructive Fire on Board the Steamer Ly-ee-moon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1877 · page 4

MONDAY'S 'Echo' says:—This splendid clipper steamer, which was recently purchased by the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and…

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A Dreadful Shipwreck

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 November 1877 · page 2

NEARLY a month after the event there has come news of a very calamitous shipwreck on the Pacific Coast. The report is that the steamship Eten was lost on the 15th of July, seventy…

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