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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

5 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers

Still Ashore

Manilla Express · Saturday 7 April 1900 · page 2

The steamer Gulf of Taranto is still aground in Hobson's Bay…

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Disastrous Wreck

Manilla Express · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 2

IN inky darkness and during a roaring gale about 3 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the ship Sierra Nevada, 1400 tons, shot past the Head at Queenscliff…

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The Wrecks

Manilla Express · Saturday 12 May 1900 · page 5

No further persons were saved from the Siera Nevada. In the same gale the barque Magnet was lost. All aboard were…

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The Invention of the Schooner

Manilla Express · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 4

History records that "Captain Robinson built and rigged a ketch, as they were then called, masted, and rigged it in a peculiar manner ; when launched the peculiar motion…

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A Disabled Schooner

Manilla Express · Saturday 20 October 1900 · page 7

The schooner Australia, from Bellenger, was picked up off Smoky Cape yesterday in a leaky condition…

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