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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1879

12 stories in South Coast's papers

MISCELLANEOUS. Frightful Collision on the Coast. Sinking of the Steamer Bonnie Dundee— Loss of Five Lives

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 13 March 1879 · page 2

THE most serious stoamboat collision that has taken place on our coast happened last night between the Melbourne Steam Company's steamer Barrabool (Captain Clark) and the…

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Original Correspondence. The Steamer, "Our Own." to the EDITOr of the Telegraph

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 15 May 1879 · page 2

SIR,—Would you kindly insert the following in your valuable journal:— Well, Mr. Editor, I suppose you as well as others are aware of what wilful and fatuous lies…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Wreck of the S. S. Monaro

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1879 · page 3

ANOTHER of our coasting steamers, the Monaro, has succumbed to the fate that has befallen too many others, notwithstanding that the coast of New South Wales is, from a navigator's point of…

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Wreckers at Work

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 June 1879 · page 4

A STORY is told of the wreckers in Cornwall. —A ship was reported as coming ashore on a Sunday when all hands were at church. The clergyman seeing his congregation…

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Original Correspondence. [We do not identify ourselves with the opinions expressed by correspondents.] Wreck of the Monaro. To the Editor of the Bega Standard

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

SIR,—Having read in your paper that I am being blamed for not looking after the interests of consignees of cargo on board of the wrecked steamer Monaro, ind that she had…

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Wreck of the Monaro. To the Editor of the Bega Standard

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 5 July 1879 · page 2

SIR,—Having read in your paper that I am being blamed for not looking after tho interests of consignees of cargo on board of the wrecked steamer Monaro, wd that she had…

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MISCELLANEOUS. The Wreck or the Steamer Tambaroora

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 31 July 1879 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from Brisbane, to the S. M. Herald on Thursday last, says:—Captain Cottier, of the Lady Bowen (s.) arrived at Keppel Bay to-day, and reports that…

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Monaro Wreck Case

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 2

AT the District Court at Moruya on Saturday last, before Judge McFarland, Mr. R. Gentle sued Capt. Cain for the value of a case of saddlery recovered from the wreck and sold…

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Monaro Wreck Case

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 2

AT the District Court at Mornay on Saturday last, before Judge McFarland. Mr. R. Gentle sued Capt. Cain for the value of a case of saddlery recovered from tho wreck and sold…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. Sydney. Wednesday, 4 P.M. Shipwreck

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 August 1879 · page 3

THE ship Ivanhoo, bound from Melbourne to San Francisco, become a total wreck on the Tasmania coast, 40 miles from Tamar Heads…

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Steamer Accommodation. (To the Editor of the [?]Stamford.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 2

DEAR SIR.—Tho owner of a steamer, being willing to put her on tho trade between Sydney, Eden, Tathra. and intermediate ports, if any inducement offer, has…

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Steamer Accommodation. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—The owner of a steamer, being willing to put her on the trade between Sydney, Eden; Tathra, and intermediate ports, if any inducement offer, has…

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