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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1856

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

Loss of Her Majesty's Steamer Polyphemus. Admiralty, February 5th

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 26 April 1856 · page 4

The following telegraphic message has been received from her Majesty's minister at Copenhagen, dated 4th instant. "The Polyphemus was totally lost on the 29th…

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Colonial News. Manning River. Total Wreck Oe the Gipsy, Steamer

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 7 May 1856 · page 2

This grout calamity to the proprietors of the boat and the district generally, occurred as the ill-fated vessel was crossing the bar last Thursday, the 24th instant, about 3 o'clock P.m., happily…

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Wreck of the Meg Merrilies, at Corner Inlet. To the Editor of the Argus

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 4 June 1856 · page 2

Sir,—It is my melancholy duty to have to inform you that as I was coming down the river from port Albert on Saturday about 2 p.m., I [?] two vessels at the mouth of Corner Inlet,…

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Fifteen Days' Later News. Arrival of the Champion of the Seas, and Steamer Victoria, with News to 8ru March. Russia Concedes " the Litigated Points.—satisfactory Prospects of Peace.— Arrival of the James Baines at Liver

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 2

BY the steamer London, which arrived at four o'clock this morning, we have received English news to the 8th of May. We hastily tike the following from the following of Saturday…

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Wreck of Five Ve Sels at Newcastle

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 15 November 1856 · page 3

On the arrival of the collaroy at Morpoth last evening captain Muthall reported that the storm by the rough weather on the beach at…

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