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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1879

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Wreck of the Steamer Monaro

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 June 1879 · page 2

ON Thursday morning last (reports the Examiner), the township of Moruya was thrown into a considerable state of excitement on receiving a report to the effect that…

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Incidents of the Wrecked Monaro

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 June 1879 · page 2

IT is truly said that under the most solemn circumstances incidents of ludicrous nature transpire. The wreck of the Monaro (says the Illawara Mercury)…

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Washed Ashore

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 3

THE Newcastle correspondent to the Evening News writes under date 1st July :—Another ghastly evidence of the fierceness of the gale which has visited this coast…

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Wreck of the John Penn

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 November 1879 · page 3

Moruya Saturday—I have just returned from seeing the wreck of the John Penn, at Burrowarra Point, situated six miles from the Moruya Heads, and twelve miles from…

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