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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1895

4 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Two Serious Wrecks

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 June 1895 · page 3

THE French mail steamer Don Pedro, running between Havre and La Plata, in the Argentine Republic, has struck on a submerged rock on the north-west coast…

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Wreck of the Catterthun

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 10 August 1895 · page 4

The Eastern and Australian S.S. Company's steamer Catterthun, 2179 tons, struck a reef in the vicinity of Seal Rocks of 2.25 a.m. on Thursday, and sank within…

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Wreck of the Catterthun

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 August 1895 · page 2

The survivors of the wreck of the steamer Catterthun have arrived in Sydney by the steamer Electra. The Chinese saloon steward tells a terrible story of the fate of…

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The Wreck of the Catterthun

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 28 August 1895 · page 3

The salvage steamers Sterling and Mermaid, dispatched from Sydney nearly a week ago to locate the wreck of the Catterthun, and endeavour to recover the specie on…

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