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SS Admella book out soon!

This day 150 years ago, on 6 August 1859, a cold winter's night, the steamship Admella ran aground on what is now known as Carpenter Reef, with the loss of 89 lives, many of them children.

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Bulldust & Bough Shades: Over 100 years of horse racing in ‘The Alice’

by Lorraine Day
52 pages
Paperback ~~$15.00~~ $10.00
Almost the entire population of Central Australia at the turn of the century had more than a passing interest in racing,

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Reef of Despair: The wreck of the SS Admella – COMING SOON!!

When the news of the colony's worst maritime disaster reached Adelaide from Mount Gambier at 3.30pm on Monday 8 August 1859, hundreds of people congregated at the telegraph office, and both Houses of Parliament adjourned.


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