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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1872

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Wreck of the Walter Hood

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 February 1872 · page 4

IT will be remembered that when the Walter Hood was lost in Wreck Bay, two young gentlemen (Messrs Harrison and Bailey) made repeated efforts, by…

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Wreck of the New Guinea Expedition. Cardwell, 4th

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 14 March 1872 · page 3

THE brig Maria, bound for New Guinea from Sydney, is a total wreck on the Bramble Reef, about thirty miles from here. Twenty eight of the passengers have arrived…

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Terrible Wreck

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 6 June 1872 · page 2

A SEAMAN of the barque Fils d'Orson, which touched at Sable Island, off the Nova Scotia coast, February, 14 for water, brings a painful story of the wreck of the Lily…

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