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References
- ↑ Madagascar. Scottish Built Ships. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
- ↑ "Rennie's Steamer Service: Natal and Cape Colonies", R. N. Porter, The South African Philatelist, Vol. 90, No. 6 (December 2014), Whole No. 927, pp. 178-182.
- ↑ "Loss of the Steamer Madagascar", The Hobart Town Daily Mercury, 3 February 1859, p. 2. Retrieved from Trove, 6 May 2019.
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