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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1869

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The News by the Mail. the Wreck of the Gossamer

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 4 March 1869 · page 4

AMONG the terrible shipping disasters of the past month, the loss of the Gossamer, a vessel outward-bound for Adelaide, will possess a specially painful interest for the…

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The News by the Mail Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 25 March 1869 · page 4

THE P. and O. Company's mail steamer Malta arrived in Sydney harbour on Sunday shortly after seven o'clock p.m. From the news she brings the following items are…

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Great Floods, Shipwrecks, and Loss of Life

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 13 May 1869 · page 3

THE last two or three days have, indeed, been a time to conjure up thoughts of those in danger by flood and on the ocean and a hope that in each case there might…

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Storms and Wrecks

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 20 May 1869 · page 4

Heavy gales occurred on March 19 and 20, which were attended with disastrous results on some parts of the English coast. At Hoyle, in Cornwall, the National…

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Burning of the Steamer Mittie Stephens—sixty-three Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 August 1869 · page 1

DURING the past few days the public mind has been occupied by one of those wholesale calamities which have occurred by the hundred on western waters in the last fifty years,…

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