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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1861

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

Wreck of the Golden Star and Loss of Nineteen Lives

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 March 1861 · page 3

Intelligence reached Liverpool on Tuesday of the total loss of the ship Golden Star, bound from Mobile to Liverpool. On the 29th ultimo the ship, pressed by…

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Terrible Story of A. Shipwreck

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 27 March 1861 · page 2

The following narrative of the loss of the steamer Jersey City, on Long Point Reach, the 24th November, while on her way from Toledo to Buffalo, appears in the American papers :—…

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Total Wreck of a Liverpool Ship, and Loss of Twelve Lives

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 10 April 1861 · page 4

Liverpool, January 25.—We regret to announce the total loss of the ship Florence Graham, Captain James Dickson, of and for this port, on Thursday…

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Arrival of the Benares Mail Steamer. Monday, 10.45 a.m

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 17 April 1861 · page 2

THE " Benares" Mail Steamer has arrived. Mr. Wentworth and family are passengers. The Queen opened Parliament on the…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer Northam at Adelaide, with News to the 28Th. April. Free Press Office. Monday, June 10th, 3 p.m

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 12 June 1861 · page 2

The Northam mail steamer arrived at Adelaide, with news to 28th April. Fort Sumpter surrendered to the revolutionists of South Carolina, after forty…

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Wrecks of Humanity. Why Should They Sink

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 13 July 1861 · page 2

The excitement of 'the chase' has always been supposed to have a healthful tendency; but there is a kind of chase which breaks down the constitution, debilitates the frame, and shortens…

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SYDNEY. We published the following as an "Extraordinary ". on Saturday afternoon last Arrival of the Steamer Northam at Melbourne with the English Mail. Sydney, Saturday, 4-15 p.m

Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Wednesday 18 December 1861 · page 2

Among tho passengers per Northam, we have Sir Stuart A. Donaldson. Tho American confederates continue to retire from their position before Washing…

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