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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1866

8 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Later English News, Per Queensland Government Mail Steamer Souchays. [Via Torres Straits] Monday 9 a.m

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 8 March 1866 · page 4

THE Mail steamer Souchays, Captain Blick, arrived at the bar at 5.30 p.m. from Batavia bringing English news to January 16 She made the passage hence to Koepang in…

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Wreck of the Steamer London

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1866 · page 2

THE London, which has been commanded ever since she was launched from Blackwall yard, in 1864, by Captain Martin, an Australian navigator of great experience, left the East India Docks on Thursday…

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Robbery of the One Thousand Ounces of Gold Aboard the Steamer Barwon

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1866 · page 3

THE Barwon, steamer, which arrived in Sydney on Monday last from Dunedin, brought amongst other freight twenty-two boxes of gold dust, each containing one…

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The Great Steamer Robbery

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 5 July 1866 · page 4

The readers of the Alta will remember the somewhat singular statement made by Collector Adams, of Oregon, on his arrival from Asterior, in the steamship Oregon, on…

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Terrific Gale Along the Coast. Total Loss of the Cawarra, Steamer, with Fifty-nine Lives

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 19 July 1866 · page 3

THE terrific gale which commenced on Wednesday and which continued without intermission the whole or yesterday, prepared the public to some extent for tidings of shipwreck and disaster. But…

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Wreck of the Netherby on King's Island

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 2 August 1866 · page 3

Intelligence reached the Government about nine o'clock on Saturday night, of the wreck on King's Island of the emigrant ship Netherby, 944 tons, Captain Owens,…

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Fenian Invasion of Canada. By the Rakaia, the steamer bringing the first mail from England via Panama, we have the following exciting news from Canada: New York, June 11

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 9 August 1866 · page 3

Since the sailing of the last steamer Fenianism has assumed immense proportions and dwindled again almost into insignificance. Such seems ever to be the fate of Irish movements for Irish independence…

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Launch of the G. V. Brooke Lifeboat

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 22 November 1866 · page 4

The lifeboat which was subscribed for by the friends and admirers of the late gifted G. V. Brooks, as a testimony to his worth, and an appropriate memorial of his…

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