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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1892

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

A Steamer That Runs on Land

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 17 February 1892 · page 3

A CURIOUS steamer, which it is stated can be propolled on land by means of its own engine, has been constructed at the Ljunggren Engineering Works at Kristiansstad, in Sweden. It is intended for the…

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Total Wreck of Two Street Lamps. Shepherd-street in Darkness

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 16 November 1892 · page 2

SOME mischievous, and perhaps good-for nothing person who, to all appearances had nothing else to do, played great havoc with a couple of gas posts in Bowral on…

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The Spectre Captain. Queer Acts of a Ghost Which Haunts a Steamer in Brooklyn Basin

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 December 1892 · page 2

" I'll never go out near the old Taber again," said a well-known boatman of East Oakland one Sunday as he looked towards the black hulk of the steamship William Taber…

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