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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1865

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Rescue of the Crew of the Schooner Eclipse at Turanga

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1865 · page 4

BY the Salamander, we have news from Auckland to the 20th instant. The following is from the New Zealand Herald of that date:—…

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Wreck of the Barque Ada. the Inquest

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 August 1865 · page 3

YESTERDAY the City Coroner held an inquest on the body of a man named Robert Codling, lying dead at the dead-house, Circular Quay. The following gentlemen were the jury:—…

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Wreck of the Grafton Schooner at the Auckland Islands, 1863. Arrival of the Captain and Two of the Crew After a Voyage of Five Days, Performed in a Small Dingy. Two Men Left on the Island

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 17 August 1865 · page 3

WE have rarely had to record a more wonderful instance of escape from peril, than that disclosed by the plain, unvaraished statement of Captain Musgrave, who, with two of his crew arrived in town…

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Wreck of the Invercauld at Auckland Islands. Terrible and Protracted Sufferings of the Crew

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 26 October 1865 · page 3

A LONDON correspondent not unfamiliar to the readers of the Free Press, who has seen Captain Dalgarno, and learned from his own lips the harrowing tale of the sufferings of the survivors of the wreck…

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