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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1891

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Wreck of the Utopia

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 2

IN connection with the deplorable disaster to the Utopia, which resulted in the drowning of 570 unfortunate Italian immigrants in in Gibraltar Bay, it was decided by the…

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Terrible Time at Sea. a Steamer on Fire in a Gale. MELBOURNE

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 4 July 1891 · page 2

IT is very seldom that sailors are called upon to undergo similar experience to that of the office [?] and crew of the C[?], which arrived [?] from London. The Culgoa is one of the many…

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