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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1880

5 stories in South Coast's papers

Wreck of the Ketch Margaret

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 1 January 1880 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from the Kiama correspondent of the S. M. Herald to that journal on Monday last, says:— "The ketch Margaret, Captain Peterson…

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Perilous Position of a Steamer in the Bay of Biscay

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 19 February 1880 · page 4

THE British India Steam Navigation Company's ship Eldorado, 3300 tons, with 95 passengers on board, and a Lascar crew of about GO, put into Plymouth Sound on…

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Wreck of the steamer "Our Own."

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1880 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE was received in Shoalhaven by the steamer Illawarra. on Saturday afternoon last, setting forth that the s.s. Our Own wa stranded near the beach south of Point [?]…

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Heavy Gale at Newcastle. Wreck of the Susanne Godeffroy, and Ten Lives Lost

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1880 · page 3

NEWCASTLE.—Tuesday.—Shortly after 8 this morning a large full-rigged ship was observed off the port drifting into the bight. The lifeboat was ordered into readiness and promptly…

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MISCELLANEOUS. Wreck of the Godeffroy. Decision of the Marine Board

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 21 October 1880 · page 4

THE following are the concluding paragraphs of the decisions of the Local Marino Board inquiry, held at Newcastle last week. The proceeding paragraph recapitulates the incidents of the…

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