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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1918

3 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Miscellaneous Your Own Lifeboat

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 5

"Carry your own lifeboat," is the motto of an Italian inventor, G. Piperno, who has visited England with what is probably the most ambitious…

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Enemy Work. New Zealand Steamer Mined. 25 Believed to Be Lost

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 July 1918 · page 5

The Navy Department has issued the following statement:—"Early in the morning of the 26th inst. the steamer Wimmera,…

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Irish Steamer Sunk

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 15 October 1918 · page 2

The Irish mail boat Leinster, 2646 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk. She was voyaging from Dublin to Holyhead when the first torpedo struck her. She was…

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