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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889

13 stories in South Coast's papers

Exciting [?] of a Ship-wrecked Crew

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1889 · page 4

A TERRIBLY [?] blew on the north-west court of England on November 19. During the afternoon the harbor master at [?]…

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Alleged Murder of a Steamer. [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1889 · page 4

LATE on Saturday evening a murder is alleged to have been committed in [?] when a [?]…

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A Mail Steamer Cut in Two and [?]lown Up

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Saturday 18 May 1889 · page 4

THE Belg[?] steamer Co[?] de [?], which was reported as missing was [?] by the steamer Princesses [?] on her passage from Doves to…

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Wreck of the [?] [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1889 · page 4

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Cable Steamer Injured

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 19 June 1889 · page 2

The cable steamer, Shera[?]l Osborne, bound for New Zeas[?]ad has returned to port, having shipped tremendons seas greatly damaging instruments in cable testing room…

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Terrible Experience on a Floating Wreck

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 3 July 1889 · page 4

THE Atlas Line steamer Claribel, on her last voyage to New York, saved part of the crew of the vessel J. S. Moulton, while the vessel was a floating wreck and surrounded…

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Wrecked Steamer

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 31 July 1889 · page 2

The captain and crew of the barque Malsgate arrived in Moreton Bay in an open boat, they report the loss nf vessel three hundred miles east of Clarence Heads…

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The Wreck of The Lady of Lorne. a Terrible Experience. Port Macquarie

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1889 · page 4

THERE sailors from the ketch Lady of Lorne, which was last near the Solitary Islands last week, have arrived hare by steamer from the Bellinger, The mute…

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The Wrecked Steamer centennial. SYDNEY

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 28 August 1889 · page 2

Two of she crew of the steamer Contennial which collided with n steamer in the harbour mid sank, ara missing and supposed to have been crushed to death in their bunks. A…

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Total Wreck of a Barque

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 28 August 1889 · page 2

The Barque Windhover bound from Newcastle to Batavia has been totally wrecked off B[?] Bay. The captain and crew after 3 days in an open boat reached Thursday Island on…

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Steamer Accommodations

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 16 October 1889 · page 2

On Monday last, Merres R. H. Harv[?] and W, Book, interviewed Mr. [?]…

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Fire on an Atlantic Steamer

The Broughton Creek Register, and Kangaroo Valley and South Coast Farmer · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 4

The White Star Royal Mail Steamship Britannic which sailed from Now York on the 4th of September, with 89 saloon and 169 steerage passengers, arrived off…

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Opposition Steamer for Moruya

The Moruya Times and South Coast Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1889 · page 2

So long and sorely have the people of this district been oppressed with the exorbitant freight rates imposed by the L S. N. Company, that it is in no way surprising that when a…

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