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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1870

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Further European News. Wreck of the Royal Standard

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 February 1870 · page 4

ADVICES received on November 15 from Rio Janeiro communicate the painful intelligence of the total loss of the ship Royal Standard, on the Brazilian coast, while on…

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Wreck of the Walter Hood. Twelve Lives Lost

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 5 May 1870 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE was published in the Sydney papers on Monday of the wreck, between Ulladulla and Jervis Bay, of the fine clipper ship Walter Hood, Captain Latto, from…

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Thomson's Road Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 July 1870 · page 4

THOMSON'S road steamer is likely to become a carrying and working instrument of immense commercial importanse. It is of moderate size, weighs from 6 to 10…

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Serious Collision.—sinking of the Steamer Waimea

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 November 1870 · page 2

THE city was thrown into a state of considerable excitement last night, by a report last being circulated that the steamer Lady Young had been sunk in the…

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