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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1926

2 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The Dorrigo Wreck

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 7

A party searching for traces of the missing crew of the steamer Dorrigo found a body at Hook Point The body was clad only in a singlet. A…

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What Might Have Been. Radio and Shipwreck

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate · Thursday 15 April 1926 · page 4

That the absence of radio apparatus on the ill-fated steamer Dorrigo was at least indirectly responsible for the death of 22 seamen is the…

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