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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1853

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Wreck of the Osmanli, Steamer, in D'estree's Bay, Kangaroo Island

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 December 1853 · page 7

We deeply regret to record the loss of this splendid screw steamer on its voyage from Melbourne to Port Adelaide. The following are the particulars, as far as we have been able at present to ascertain them…

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Wreck of the Osmanli

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 19 December 1853 · page 386

The Adelaide Times of the 7th instant, says—A correspondent enquires why Captain Corbitt, late of this steamer, has published no version of its unaccountable wreck. We must say that the more we hear of this…

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Wreck of the Osmanli

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 19 December 1853 · page 384
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

WE deeply regret to record the loss of this splendid screw-steamer on its voyage from Melbourne to Port Adelaide. The following are the particulars, as far as we have been able at present to ascertain them…

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