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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1885

5 stories in South Coast's papers

Yvonne a Steamer Romance

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 22 January 1885 · page 1

IT is Sunday— and the ateamer is out on the open sea. A long, dark, handsome steamer it is; and it cuts a white path for itself through the sapphire waters, and leaves a shadowy, brown wavering track behind it…

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Yvonne: a Steamer Romance. (Continued.) Chapter Ii

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 29 January 1885 · page 1

A long, low, red-brick manor-house; a sweeping, undulating park before it; a forest of rustling pine-trees stretching away out behind it; and a strong hot summer's sun…

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Yvonne: a Steamer Romance. Iii

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 5 February 1885 · page 1

A STORM on the open sea, and the steamer is out in it. The great waves are flying from side to Bide, roaring, seething, runuing, rushing;…

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The Wreck of the Cahors

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 25 June 1885 · page 2

A TELEGRAM from the Herald's Correspondent at Brisbane on Friday last, says:— The following account of the wreck of the Cahors, drawn up by a committee of the passengers, was…

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Cast Ashore

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 8 July 1885 · page 2

In the gathering gloom of the winter's night Came the croak of the fateful raven, And the wash of the sea in its dangerous glee On the strand of a rock-bound haven…

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