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FATAL COLLISION. IN SYDNEY HARBOUR. MEN-O'-WARSMEN DROWNED. By Tel«er«ph. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received January 5, 2.36 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The steamer Dunmore collided with a pinnace containing seventy bluejackets off Garden Island. Fifteen of the bluejackets .were drowned. Garden Island lies a short distance off Pott's Point, on the southern shore of Port Jackson. Ihe island (which derives its name from the fact that a number of men of the Sirius, one of the first of the convid, fleet, formed a garden there) is used as an ordnance depot for the storage of material belonging to ships of war. It is the largest island m the harbour, containing nine or ten acres. Besides naval stores the island has t hospital and several foundries. The Dunmore is a wooden screw steamer of 277 tons, built in 1891 at Blaokwall, N.S.W., and owned by L. G. Fuller. She is commanded by Captain N. Hansen
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1909, Page 8
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155EXTRA EDITION. Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1909, Page 8
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