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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea
21 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
News by the E. and A steamer Eastern, which arrived at Sydney from China and Japan on Friday morning, shows that the Chinese river pirates have taken full…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Brighton and the 22 footer Eva were in collision about 100 yards off Bradley's Head on Sunday afternoon, when the sailing best was smashed up, the damage…
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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamer Tathra foundered at sea on January 4, while on a trip from Craig Cove, Ambrym, to Epi in the New Hebrides…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A violent cyclonic disturbance occurred early this morning along the South Australian coast, the wind blowing, at times, with terrific force…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Wongonella, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday morning from Ocean Island brought to Sydney Captain Kristersen and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The White Star liner Titanic, the largest steamer in the world, collided with an iceberg on Sunday evening, and sank off Cape Race, the south-cast point…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is a very long time since anything so appalling has occurred as the wreck of the great litter Titanic, on her first voyage from England to New York, which occurred this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Almost every conceivable circumstance combined to make the loss of the Titanic one of the most appalling disasters that has ever been recorded. The enormous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NAMBUCCA HEADS, Saturday Morning.—The well known North Coast steamer Belliger, belonging to Messrs A. and E. Ellis, of Sydney, has been totally wrecked…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An extraordinary marine mishap occurred here when the steamer Alameda ploughed her way through the Coleman Dock-the finest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →After a brilliant engagement off Millford on Monday night, August 9th, in connection with the naval manoeuvres, when both the Red and Blue sides claimed a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At Bunbury, Messrs. Hawkes and Tangye, railway employers, went out fishing in Mr. R. Tangye's motor boat Avera to Koombana…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Further details of the disastrous railway collision, in which 11 passengers were killed and 39 injured, and which occurred last night on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A band of robbers has stolen L1000 from a bank he o. The men wrecked the building by using nitro-glycerine to force an entrance into the bank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Illawarra and South Coast Company's new cargo steamer Bermagui was launched at the Ailsa Shipbuilding Yards, Troon, Scotland, on Friday, according to a cable received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ship G. W. Wolf, in ballast from Buenos Ayres to Newcastle, was wrecked in Flinders Group on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Mr husband for five years was a martyr to bleeding piles," says Mrs. Lily Thompson, of 278, Swan Street, East Richmond, Melbourne. "The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Daily Mail" of 13th February wrote:— The explosion which sank the Braz an ironclad Aquldaban on the nign 1st January in the Bay of Ja[?] was a terribly dramatic disa[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A steamer has been built to be used as a tug on the waters of the Barren Jack dam, and will be required to tow pants containing 100 tons of sand. She will also perform any…
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