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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1857

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

Steamer Niagara Burned. Over Eighty Lives Lost. Particulars of the Catastropile

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 January 1857 · page 3

Yesterday morning our city was thrown into a state of great excitement by a report that the steamer Niagara of the Collin wood Line was burned to the water's edge, off Port…

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Poetry. the Shipwreck of the Northern Eelle

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 4

What tribate shall we give the brave, Who fight the glorious fight, who stand or fall in freedom's canse Defenders of the right…

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The Easterly Gale. Wrecks in Port. Loss of the Barque Fame, Dismasting of the Barque Indus and Other Causualties

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 5 August 1857 · page 2

During the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly [?] remembered for some years past accompanied with heavy nd incessant…

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Melancholy Shipwreck. Loss of the Dunbar with All on Board

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 4

On the arrival of the steamer Grafton, yesterday morning, from the Clarence River, Captain Wiseman reported that portions of a wreck were floating about…

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The Bathurst Free Press. "Magna est veritas st prosvalebit." Saturday, August 29, 1857. Wreck of the Dunbar

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 2

Tub fearful catastrophe which it fell to our painful lot to chronicle on Wednesday last, in necessarily very brief terms, has so entirely absorbed the sympathy of…

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Poetry. the Late Wreck.—three Sonnets by [?] Halloban

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 16 September 1857 · page 4

"Oh! I have suffered With those that I saw suffered a brave vessel, Who had no [?] some noble creatures i her [?] all to pieces! Oh! the cry did knock…

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Another Wreck at the Heads Loss of the Catherine Adamson with Twenty-one Lives

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1857 · page 2

It is our painful duty to report another [?] astrous shipwreek at the Heads, within a [?] of sixty-five days of the destruction of the [?] which, as our renders will recollect occurred…

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