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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1917

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Steamer Salved

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 17 April 1917 · page 2

The steamer Now York' has been docked with a "hole sixteen feet by twenty feet in her starboard side, the machinery being uninjured…

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Telegraphic News. From Our Correspondent SYDNEY. Monday, 4 p.m. Explosion on Steamer

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 7

The steamer Cumberland left Sydney on Thursday last for England. When a few miles off Gabo Island an explosion took place…

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Accident on Steamer

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 2

While Joseph Fisher and Leonard Miller, seamen on a steamer lying at Miller's Point, were painting the side of a vessel yesterday afternoon a bale of wool fell…

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Latest Telegraphic News. SYDNEY, Tuesday. Steamer Matunga Missing

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 August 1917 · page 2

The Burns-Philp steamer, Matunga, from Sydney to Rabaul, is missing. The vessel was last heard of on August 5th, when she wirelessed…

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Telegraphic News. Sydney, Friday. Large Steamer on Fire

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 28 September 1917 · page 2

A large steamer which arrived on Monday, from Melbourne was found to be on fire at midnight on Monday. The fire brigade and the…

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