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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1867

5 stories in South Coast's papers

The Storm at Wollongong. Wreck of the Ketch Margaret. Death by Drowning of Pilot Edwards

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 26 June 1867 · page 2

At the time of our going to press on Thursday night last we stated that the South Coast was being visited by ope of the most severe storms of wind and rain that had oocurred for many…

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Heavy Gale. Loss of Two Pilot Boats at the Heads. Drowning of Pilots Robinson and Beeder and Five of the Crew. Drowning of Robert Green, of the Shipping Butcher's Boat. Loss of the Schooner Otago, at Newcastle. Expected Floods to the South

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 3 August 1867 · page 4

SCARCELY have the effects of the late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Wednesday’s Sitting. in the Assembly. Steamer Pearl

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1867 · page 2

Mr. Forster asked the Secretary for Works.—“ 1. From whom, under what circumstances, for what purpose, and on what terms, was the steamer Pearl…

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Wreck of the Matedor and Bright Planet

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 14 September 1867 · page 2

I regret to record the loss of the two vessels above named. On Saturday last about 9 o’clock, the Matedor went ashore at the same place as the Moselle, about eight or nine months ago, and…

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Wreck of the A. S. N. Co’s Steamship Telegraph

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1867 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to record the total loss of one of our finest, and decidedly fastest steamships in the colonies. The Telegraph has only recently been placed in a…

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