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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889

4 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Foundered in a Ilurricane

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 23 March 1889 · page 4

The [?], which arrived at Brisbane on Monday, brought news of the foundering of the schooner Northern Belle, and the loss of twenty lives. She also brought the…

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Sad Tale of a Wreck

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 20 April 1889 · page 2

It was with surprise that the news of the wreck of the ketch Maggie Taylor who was received here yesterday. The weather telegrams had previously made known that a rather heavy sea was running…

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A Remarkable Tale of Shipwreck

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 6 July 1889 · page 4

A wonderful story has been published of the adventures of the survivors of the barque Gettysburg, of Aberdeen, which was wrecked on the desert island Morant Cayes, 33 miles…

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Collision Off Bradley's Head. the Steamer Centennial Sunk

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 August 1889 · page 3

A COLLISION of a very serious nature occurred in the harbour, close to Bradley's Head, at 9.30 last evening (says Saturday's Echo) by which the steamer Centennial, laden with coal for…

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