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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1879

2 stories in New England's papers

Loss of the Schooner Margaret Chessel

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1879 · page 4

Monday's ' Newcastle Herald' says:—It is our sad duty to chronicle another shipping disaster, accompanied by loss of human life. The feeling of sadness…

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Wreck, and Loss of One Life, at Newcastle. (Fbom the Newcastle Herald, June 20.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1879 · page 6

THE schooner Lovett Peacock, Captain M'Lennan, from Townsville, to Sydney, anchored near Nobby's, on Wednesday i night, between 8 and 9 o'clock. Shortly…

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