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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

11 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Wreck of the Colleen Bawn Leads to the Discovery of an Heir-at-law

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 January 1886 · page 2

"IT is indeed an ill-wind that blows nobody any good, and strangely enough it seems that even such a disastrous catastrophe as the wreck of the Colleen Bawn may result in good…

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Wreck of the Steamer Taiaroa. Many Lives Lost. Auckland

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 April 1886 · page 2

ANOTHER shipping disaster, involving, it is feared, great loss of life, has occurred on the New Zealand coast. So far, the particulars which have been ascertained are of a most…

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The Wreck of the Taiaroa. Thirty-three Lives Lost. Auckland

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 17 April 1886 · page 2

ADDITIONAL particulars have now been received of the wreck of the Taiaron. It has been ascertained that the total number of lives lost was 33, including five women. Fourteen of…

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Telegraphic. Wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon. Seventy Lives Lost. Vessel down in few Minutes. Sydney. Monday Morning

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 June 1886 · page 3

THE steamer, Ly-ee-Moon, from Melbourne to Sydney, became a total wreck off Green Cape, last night at nine o'clock; only…

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Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Life. Full and Latest Particulars

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 June 1886 · page 3

FROM the subjoined telegrams received on Monday it will be seen that a terrible catastrophe occurred on Sunday last, involving the loss of sixty-five lives. At…

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The Massacre of the Schooner Young Dick. Horrible Details

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 June 1886 · page 4

THE Maryborough Chronicle (Q.) gives the following details of the tragic events on board the labour schooner Young Dick during her…

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Wreck of the Cutter Marion. COOKTOWN

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1886 · page 3

The duplicate cutter Marion was wrecked on the Toulon Island on the 26th May No lives were lost. The master and one seaman came over in H.M. S. Lark. An…

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The Schooner Francisco Feliz

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 July 1886 · page 2

The news published in our last issue (says the Daily Telegraph) of the supposed loss of the schooner Francisco Feliz, with all hands, whilst on her voyage from this…

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A French Barque Ashore

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 October 1886 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The French barque Glauseuse, from Charente to Melbourne, went ashore yestesday morning outside the Heads under Point Lonsdale…

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Wreck of the Donnottar Castle

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 October 1886 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Friday.—The Union Compan's R.M.S. Mararoa, which arrived here from San Francisco to-day, brings intelligence of the wreck in the Pacific…

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The Corangamite Ashore

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 2

On Monday morning considerable excitement was occasioned in Sydney by a report that Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co.'s fine steamship Corangamite had…

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