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Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1870

8 stories in Riverina's papers

The Road Steamer

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1870 · page 4

The London 'Times' gives the following interesting account of the above invention which; as will be seen, is likely to furnish meat important facilities for purposes of…

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Wreck of the Colonist

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1870 · page 3

THE 'S. M. Herald' writes:—We have been favoured by Captain Banks, who proceeded by the Thetis (s.) to the wreck of the Colonist, on Elizabeth Beef, with the following particulars of the trip:—…

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Newspaper Wrecks

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 27 July 1870 · page 4

UNDER this head the San Jose. Mercury makes some very just criticisms in reference to newspaper enterprises in San Francisco, which have proved…

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Thomson's Patent Road Steamer

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 August 1870 · page 4

The 'Engineer' gives the details we subjoin relative to the above invention, which were read by Profess Archer at a recent meeting of the British Association, and which we concieve…

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Wreck of the Oneida—divers at Work

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 10 August 1870 · page 4

THE Yokohama correspondent of the Sacramento Union gives the following graphic account of the descent of the divers to the wreck of the ill-fated…

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Original Correspondence. All communications to this Journal must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer. No notice will be taken of amonymous communications, and no rejected communication will be returned. the Late Steamer Seizure. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 24 September 1870 · page 2

SIR,—Under the head of "Local Intelligence," a paragraph is published in the Exprest of Wednesday last, which professes to be an analysis or critique of the two cases,…

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The Skeleton of the Wreck

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 26 November 1870 · page 4

WHILE Sir Michael Seymour was in the command of the Amethyst frigate, and was cruising in the Bay of Biscay, the wreck of a merchant ship drove…

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The "Captain" Foundered. on Wednesday, September 7Th, 1870

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 14 December 1870 · page 4

0 TIDINGS, and as true, Of grief, Britannia's share, Tha "Captain" and her crew Gone down off Finisterre!…

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