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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1886

10 stories in South Coast's papers

From Sydney to Moruya by Steamer. (By our Wandering Reporter.)

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1886 · page 2

Having occasion to visit the pleasant and prosperous little city of the the south—‘Moruya,’ I took passage in the Illawarra S. N. Co’s Steamer, ‘Kiama,’ punctually at…

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Si[?]king of a Large Steamer

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1886 · page 2

From a cable message which appears elsewhere it will be seen that the Cunard liner Oregon has been sunk through being in collision with another vessel not named…

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Fatal Shipwreck

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1886 · page 3

A TELEGRAM from Auckland to the Herald says : — “Another shipping disaster, involving, It is feared, great loss of life, bat occurred on the New…

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Shipwreck at Green Cape. Seventy-one Lives Lost

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 2 June 1886 · page 2

NEWS was received hew early on Monday morning, that the A. S. N. Company’s steamer Ly-co-moon had been totally wrecked on a reef in the immediate…

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The Wreck of the Lyee Moon. (From the " Bcho,')

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 2

The excitement throughout the day over the wreck of the Lyce Moon was intense, not only in Sydney and suburbs but also in all the colonies, if we may judge by the…

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Wreck of the Ly-ee-moon

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1886 · page 3

THE Coroner, Mr. Peden, Mr. Rawlinson, who was present at the inquest on behalf of the crown, and Dr. McKenzie, in the capacity of Government medical officer, returned to…

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Wreck of the Ly-ef-moon on Sunday Night, 30Tk May, 18S6

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 2

She steamed away from Melbourne's port, -And as she left stand, May a fond and kind farewell was waved them from the land…

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After the Wreck

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1886 · page 3

THE incidents of the terrible disaster of the twenty ninth of May are still fresh in our memories. They have been told by the various newspaper correspondents that…

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Stranding of the Steamer Corangamite

Moruya Examiner · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 2

Ninety-six of the passengers by the steamer Corangamite reached Sydney shortly before. 10 o’clock last night in the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company’s…

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Stranding of the Steamer Corangamite. the Vessel Likely to Become a Total Wreck. Passengers Arrived Safely

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 11 December 1886 · page 2

NINETY-SIX of the passengers by tho steamer Corangamite reached Sydney shortly before 10 o’clock last night in the Dlaw[?] Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Kiama. As the…

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