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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1885

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The Christmas Fairy, Chapter I.—saved From the Wreck

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 1

SHE was the only one saved—a tiny, delicate, fragile child, of barely three years old. A large passenger ship from Sydney had gone to pieces in a heavy gale one September…

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