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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1898

23 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2

An Old Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 3

The oldest steamer In the world Is the Industry, which was built in 1814, and plied for about sixty years on the Clyde,. and was finally laid up where she now…

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Thrilling Story of Wreck and Rescue

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 30 November 1898 · page 4

The loss of the Norwegian barque Frivold with nine of the crew, forms another thrilling tale of the sea. The doomed vessel left Boston with a cargo of coal for Arendel, and…

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Wreck in the Atlantic

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 13 December 1898 · page 3

THRILLING particulars have been received of the wreck of the liner Londonian, in the Atlantic, on the voyage from London to Boston. The…

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