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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1849

6 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers

Wreck of the Rarque Princess Royal

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 10 March 1849 · page 3

The barque Princess Royal, Captain Sinclair, from Hongkong, for this port, struck at three o'clock cm Saturday morning, on Lonsdale Reef, outside the Heads, and became a total…

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Wreck of Two German Emigrant Slips

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1849 · page 4

On the nights of Monday and Tuesday last, two German Emigrant ships, with 300 or 400 passengers on board, were wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. They were both from Bremen…

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Shipwrecks and Melancholy loss of Life

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 23 June 1849 · page 2

WE have a painful duty to perform in this day's issue in recording a series of casualties on the coast during the late gales by which it is estimated that about twenty-two of our fellow creatures have perished. For the details of these…

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Frighful Wreck of an Emigrani Ship

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1849 · page 3

The barque Floridan, 500 tons, Mr. E. D. Whitmore, master, bound from Antwerp to New York, the property of Mr. E. D. Hulbert, of that city, chartered by a German company to convey…

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"Wreck of the "Sarah Louisa," and Ross of Two Lives

Bathurst Advocate · Saturday 4 August 1849 · page 1

On Thursday this fine brig began to drag her anchor, about 1 o'clock p.m. When the second was let go, the vessel continued dragging until 7 a.m. on Friday, when the larboard chain snapped, and…

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Wreck of an Emigrant Ship and Loss of Life

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 6 October 1849 · page 7

INTELLIGENCE of the total wreck of the Hannah, freighted with nearly two hundred emigrants, bound to Quebec from Newry, was reported during the week at Lloyd's…

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