The Koonya was a wood carvel screw steamer built in 1887 at Hobart, that was wrecked when it stuck the shore at Doboy reef whilst carrying passengers &...
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Koonya may refer to: Koonya (1887), a wood carvel screw steamer built in 1887 Koonya, Tasmania, a populated place on the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia...
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the Scottish Prince". The Queenslander. Queensland, Australia. 12 February 1887. p. 258. Retrieved 17 December 2019 – via Trove. "The Scottish Prince". Gold...
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Spanish cruiser Reina Cristina (category 1887 ships)
the Spanish Navy built at the naval shipyard at Ferrol and launched 2 May 1887. Reina Cristina spent her early years in Spanish waters. In 1894 she was...
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Spanish cruiser Don Antonio de Ulloa (category 1887 ships)
Spain. Her keel was laid in 1883 and the vessel was launched on 23 January 1887. Don Antonio de Ulloa took an active part in Spanish military action against...
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Norfolk Bay Post Office opened on 1 February 1884 and was renamed "Taranna" in 1887. It closed in 1970. Taranna was first stop on the Convict tramway to Port...
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Cossar HMAS Woomera Southern Sydney Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya Illawarra Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen...
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Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes (category 1887 ships)
was built by the naval shipyard at Cartagena and launched on 9 September 1887. She had two funnels. Her main armament was built by Hontoria and sponson-mounted...
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February 1886. The ship was launched on 11 December 1886 and completed in 1887. The vessel fought in the Rif War before being assigned to Spain's fleet...
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Ada and Ethel (category Maritime incidents in October 1887)
(16 km) southeast of Seal Rocks, New South Wales, Australia, on 26 October 1887. On 9 January 1886, Mr. Roderick of Eagleton, New South Wales, launched a...
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February 1886, launched on 13 November 1886, and completed on 22 September 1887. She had a steel hull and one funnel. She had a large beam for her length...
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favourite steamer Kate being employed on the service. and during January 1887 the Kate was used by a number of gentlemen gave Captain Crombie, of the four-masted...
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Spanish cruiser Don Juan de Austria (category 1887 ships)
Spain. Her keel was laid in 1883 and the ship was launched on 23 January 1887. The cruiser was completed in 1888 or 1889. She had one rather tall funnel...
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Cossar HMAS Woomera Southern Sydney Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya Illawarra Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen...
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Cossar HMAS Woomera Southern Sydney Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya Illawarra Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen...
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incorrectly refers to the ship as the Duncan Dunbar. The incident inspired the 1887 play The Wreck of the Dunbar which was filmed as The Wreck of the Dunbar...
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North Coast Steam Navigation Company. A Francis O’Beirne Born Sydney, N.S.W. 1887 Received his Certificates of Competencies 2nd Mate on 22 July 1909, 1st Mate...
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$400 Damage to Little Vessel". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. 1887-12-06. Retrieved 2020-08-04. Lampee, Charles I. (1959). "Memories of Cruises...
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Cossar HMAS Woomera Southern Sydney Adelphoi Advance (1872) Advance (1874) Koonya Illawarra Adele Adolphus Agnes SS Bombo Comboyne Hawkesbury Packet Queen...
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discharge thus preventing him from shipping on another vessel In January 1887 a large strike began to take hold in the Illawarra coal mines and the vessel...
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