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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1881

7 stories in South Coast's papers

STRANDlNG of the Steamer Chim-boeazo. (From the Herald) Adelaide

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 13 January 1881 · page 2

[?]bound from London, for Adelaide. Melbourne and Sydney, grounded on Marion Beef at 8 a.m. this morning, south by east of Troubridge lighthouse. She is in 17 feet of water, and requires…

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POETRY. Wrecked in Port

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 17 March 1881 · page 4

THE laughing ripples sing their lay The sky is blue, the shore in gay, The breeze is blowing free; For O, the morning's fresh and fair,…

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Wreck of the Steamship Tararua. More Than 120 Lives Lost. Wellington (N.Z.)

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 5 May 1881 · page 3

The steamer Tararua has parted amidships. It is believed that only 12 men are saved. The boats were swamped, and the women and children all perished…

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Wreck of the s.s. Tararua. a Number of Passengers Drowned. (By Special Cablegram to Evening News.)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 7 May 1881 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Saturday morning. —The Union Company’s steamship Tararua, 828 tons, Captain F. C. Garrad, white on the voyage from Dunedin to Melbourne, went ashore…

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Seizure of the Steamer India. (From the Age, April 28.)

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1881 · page 2

THE steamship India was seized last night by direction of the Commissioner of Customs. The circumstances under which seizure was made are singular. The vessel arrived in Hobson's…

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The Wreck of the Queen of Nations. Wollongong

Broughton Creek Mail · Thursday 9 June 1881 · page 3

THE Queen of Nations, Barque bound from London to Sydney was yorked this morning about three miles north of Wollongong Barbour One of the crew was drowned in…

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A Wrecked Existence

The Telegraph and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1881 · page 1

"THE snow has drifted around my heart," sighed a fair young Boston girl, as she and her Brooklyn hostess sat on tho floor, lacing their boots, the other…

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