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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1907

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

When Paul, the Apostle, Was Shipwrecked

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 2

On one of his visits to his, village home, Admiral Geinsborough attended the parish church. The lesson was from that portion of Scripture that…

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The Missing Steamer Monawai

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2

THE Union Liner Monowai, which was eight days overdue from New Zealand, reached Sydney on Sunday morning in tow of the steamer…

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Shipwreck

The Braidwood Express and People's Advocate · Friday 18 October 1907 · page 2

The Steamer Trilby, timber laden for Sydney while crossing the bar at Port Macquarie yesterday, drifted on to the North Pit She eventually filled and…

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Shipwrecked on a Cannibal Island

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 19 October 1907 · page 3

A cake of soap is said to have saved the lives of five men and a boy off the coast of New Guinea. Tho story, as told in the smoking-room…

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Short Story. Among the Wreckage

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 October 1907 · page 1

Business with Sir Augustus Harris took me some years ago behind the scenes of Drury Lane Theatre while the great battle scene in one of…

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Toll of the Sea. Terrible Wrecks From Which Few Were Saved

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 2 November 1907 · page 4

Byron rightly says thai "Man's dominion stops at the shore," for, despite the inventions and improvements of a hundred years, the sea…

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Facing Death. Crew of Wrecked Vessel. Thrilling Scene

The Age · Tuesday 3 December 1907 · page 5

The fully-rigged French ship Leon has gone ashore three miles north-east of Qu[?]ty, at perhaps the most dangerous spot on the west coast of…

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Steamer Mystery. New Light on English Woman's Death

The Age · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 5

The New York correspondent of the London "Daily Mall" wrote on 17th October:— The body of Miss Gardiner, the…

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