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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1868

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Hurricane and Earthquake at St. Thomas. Eighty-two Wrecks.—eight Hundred Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 January 1868 · page 3

THE Royal Mail steamship Solent arrived at Aspinwal on the 12th Nov. at 8.15 a.m. bringing mails and passengers from Southamption. She also brings intelligence of…

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Murder of the Crew of the Schooner Marian Renny, at the S. S. Islands

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 25 January 1868 · page 3

THE schooner Chance, Captain M'Gregor, arrived in the harbour at a late hour last night; and by her we learn of the brutal murder of the crew, excepting one, of the…

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Wreck of the Ship General Grant

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 1 February 1868 · page 3

ONE more sad story of disastrous shipwreck and loss of life at the Auckland Islands has to be placed on record. Early yesterday morning a telegram was…

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Frightful Explosion of an American Steamer. Eighty-three Persons Supposed to Be Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 27 June 1868 · page 4

ABOUT noon yesterday the fine sidewheel mail steamer Magnolia left her wharf at the foot of Walnut-street, for Maysville. Her freight bills were…

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Accident to the Mail Steamer Atrato

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 October 1868 · page 4

The royal mail steamship Atrato became disabled at sea, at 5.30 p.m., on August 5. When about two hundred miles W.S.W. of the Lizard her mainshaft, port-eccentric, and cross-head of starboard…

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