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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1850

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

Dreadful Mortality on Board the Star of China Schooner Sailed Hence for California on the 28th June, with 68 Emigrants

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 26 January 1850 · page 3

A Letter, of which we subjoin an extract, has been received in Sydney from a passenger on board the Margaret brig, which sailed from this port for San Francisco on…

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Wreck of an Emigrant Ship.— Ninety-nine Lives Lost

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 23 February 1850 · page 6

The Boston (American) Evening Journal of the 8th October has the following:—A severe gale from N.E.. commenced Saturday evening (6th instant), and raged with great…

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Recapture of the Schooner Helen

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 20 April 1850 · page 8

ON the arrival of The Sabine at Upolo, Navigator's Islands, in January last, information was obtained that the schooner Helen, of Sydney, had been piratically…

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A Shipwreck on the Coast of Africa horrible Recital

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 18 May 1850 · page 8

THE Messager du Mudi, of the 30th of October, relates the following account of the shipwreck of the brig La Lucie, of Agde, on the coast of Africa. The narrator is "one of the three men who were the heroes…

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The Wreckers on the Essex Coast

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 18 May 1850 · page 6

CONVICTION OF TWENTY - SEVEN SMACKS MEN. —On Monday last the magistrates for the Tendring Hundred of Essex were engaged during the greater part of the day in…

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Canto 12Th. Cola suspects Edoona's love for Cola. A shipwrecked European

Bathurst Free Press · Saturday 7 September 1850 · page 6

" SISTER." said Oota— what debate Hadist then with sprit dreams of late? During thy illness all was ill Save Cola— Cola— Cola still…

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