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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1927

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Stores for the Wrecked

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

On most of the uninhabited islands the governments of the world have put a store of food, clothes, and tools for the use of shipwrecked sailors…

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Latest Cable News Mail Steamer Delayed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 2

The American mail steamer Sonoma, from San Francisco to Sydney, has been delayed at Honolulu with a damaged tail-shaft. Se will probably…

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Stranded Steamer’s Passengers

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 1

The first batch of passengers from the stranded “Riverina” arrived in Sydney to-day. All declared that everything possible had been done for…

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War Wrecks Work of Red Cross

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 September 1927 · page 8

Now that the war is only a memory there are many people who wonder what the Red Cross stands for to-day and what it is doing. Little doubt is…

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Mail Bag Stolen From Steamer Melbourne

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 November 1927 · page 2

Postal officials are greatly concerned, over the pillaging of a bag of English mail aboard the steamer Marama, and…

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