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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

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

Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1691, he says. "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, he saya. "I first experienced the miseries of acuts indigeetion. I was obliged to…

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Jack Ashore

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 August 1901 · page 5

Montagu is a fine English name, and there is no more worthy holder of it than Rear-Admiral Victor Montagu, who becomes sixty years old shortly. The…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Beef

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 August 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following stroy better than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891, he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was of liged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 28 August 1901 · page 2

Nobody can tell the following story batter than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891," he says "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following, story better than the writer tolls it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wrecked on Chesterfield Reef

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 4

Nobody can tell the following story bette than the writer tells it himself. "In 1891," he says, "I first experienced the miseries of acute indigestion. I was obliged to…

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Wreck on the China Coast

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 14 September 1901 · page 2

A sensational story of shipwreck, followed by a piratical attack by Chinese, came to hand lately by the China mail. The German steamer Hainan was wrecked on…

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An Old Wreck Uncovered

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 September 1901 · page 3

A wreck, supposed to be the Red Roved lost, according to some of the old resd[?]nts of Moruya, between 50 and 60 years ago, was uncovered during. some heavy easterly…

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Shipwreck and Pirates

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 20 September 1901 · page 5

A story of shipwreck, followed by piratical attack by Chinese, was brought to Sydney by the China mail. The German steamer Hainan was wrecked on the…

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Latest Intelligence. Sydney, Thursday. Missing Steamer

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 25 October 1901 · page 2

The Missing steamer [?] from New Zealand to Hobart, has been sighted off the Bluff, N.Z., in tow of two steamers. The Melbourne Cup…

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The Missing Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 30 October 1901 · page 2

The fine steamer Monowai, which had been missing for five days, was picked up by the steamer Mokoia, which had been sent to look for her. It appears that the…

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The Ariadne Wreck

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 6 November 1901 · page 2

Thomas Caradoc Kerry, George Mumford, and Eric John Hussey Freke, the three men charged with having caused the loss of the yacht Ariadne, have been committed for trial…

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Collision with a Ferry Steamer

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 18 December 1901 · page 2

At 11 o'clock on Saturday night the Colonial Sugar Co.'s 1500-ton steamer Fiona collided with the ferry steamer Lady Hampden near Darling Island, and carried…

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