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Southern Highlands · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1901

9 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Shipwrecked at our Doors!

Bowral and Robertson Free Press · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 4

The crowd had long disappeared. The streets were nearly deserted and silent, save for the steady swish of the down-pouring rain, and the clattering ramble of the carts that passed over London Bridge…

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Wreck in the Pacific

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 11 September 1901 · page 2

An incident of the cruise of the Island steamer Ysabel through the Pacific was the picking up of a shipwrecked crew from the American…

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A Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Wrecked

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 1

While proceeding on a steam trial from her constructor's yard at Newcastle to Portsmouth the torpedo boat destroyer was wrecked on the Dowsing…

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A. Torpedo-Boat Destroyer Wrecked

The Mittagong Express · Tuesday 24 September 1901 · page 1

While proceeding on a steam trial from her constructor’s [?] at Now-castle to Portsmouth the torpedo boat destroyer was wrecked on the Dowsing…

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The Wreck of the Cobra

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 September 1901 · page 4

London, Sept. 21—The tozpedoboat destroyer Cobra, which was wrecked on the Dowsing choal on Wednesday morning, had only been…

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The Wreck of the Cobra

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 September 1901 · page 2

London, Tuesday.—In connection with the loss of the torpedo-boat destroyer Cobra, off the coast of Lincolnshire, on Thursday morning, it was…

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Wreck of the Pegasus

The Mittagong Express · Friday 1 November 1901 · page 5

About half-an-hour after midnight on Thursday morning, 20th July, 1843, the steamship Pegasus, having started from Leith, on the east coast of Scotland, on…

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Farther Wrecks

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 November 1901 · page 1

London, Friday—The Rale is subsiding, and detailed accounts are now being published showing the enormous damage wrought during its…

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Mishap to a Large Steamer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 December 1901 · page 1

Brisbane, Saturday.—The steamer Duke of Devonshire is aground on Hunter's Reef. She is in [?] feet 6 inches of water forward and 38 feet…

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