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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea
28 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 2
The steamer Fifeshire is ashore 20 miles south of Cape Guardafui, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The vessel is leaking badly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE steamer Macleay struck a reef near Broughton Island on Wednesday night and immediately turned turtle and sank. There are only two survivors,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No steamer arrived at Nelligen, from Sydney, on Monday as usual owing to the wharf laborers' strike. The coastal vessels generally are laid up all over the State, as well as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Peterborough, after about 25 years' service in the Sydney and South Coast trade, has been sold by the Illawarra Company to Mr. David Drake, of Balmain. The little steamer was for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After all the women and children were gone, I began to think it was time to take my own passage. Nothing, I hope, would have induced me to leave the sinking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Members of the Chinese crew of the steamer Netherlee, lying at Woolwich Dock, Parramatta River, on Monday evening, engaged in an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A mysterious and sensational incident occurred at Barry Docks, Cardiff, early on Saturday morning. Dock workers had just returned to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The South Coast steamer Brooklyn was wrecked at the entrance to Crookhaven Heads last night at ten o'clock…
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