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A sketch, from a New Zealand newspaper, of the sinking Helen B Sterling.

Newcastle schoolboy’s shipwreck story

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:May 7, 2020
Post category:History Miscellaneous Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Stockton schoolboy Leslie Harris was 10 years old on January 5, 1922, when he went aboard the four-masted schooner Helen B Sterling, along with his mother Edith and his father…

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