Loss of the Torres Straits Mail Steamer
The Torres Straits mail steamer, Singapore, has been totally wrecked off Port Mackay…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1877
3 stories in South Coast's papers
An Extraordinary Cause of Wreck
IT is a curious thing (remarks the Spectator) to find a wreck due, not to the ship striking a rock, but to a rock striking the ship, yet this is what seems to have happened in the rase of the iron…
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IN the stirring little village of stood a quaint, old-fashioned farm-house built beneath the shade of maple and oak trees, Spreading ivy and bright morning glories…
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