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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

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

The Loss of the Steamer La Plata

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Thursday 4 February 1875 · page 2

The following narrative of the loss of this vessel in the Bay of Biscay, as briefly alluded to in our last, is by Cuthbert Hogg, the third engineer:— “We left Gravesend on the 26th…

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The Wreck of the Blenchcathra. (From the A[?] of Monday)

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 13 February 1875 · page 3

THE following is the ace [?] the week of [?] vessel when she reached King’s Island on Wednesday night, 3rd February. Me Hudson, the chief officer, had the first watch,…

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The Wreck of the Gothenburg. Brisbane

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 2

The Government are anxious to arrange for the dispatch of the Tinonee, to search about the islands in the vicinity of the wreck of the Gothenburg ; but, unfortunately,…

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Wreck" of the Gothenb[?] Fafe of [?] and Passen Gers, (From the S. M. Herald.) BRISBANE

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 9 March 1875 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE has just been received that twenty three of the passengers and crew of the Gothenburg have reached port Denison and that all the rest, with the exception of…

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Wreck of the Helen Macgregor. Grafton

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 16 March 1875 · page 2

The steamship Helen Macgregor. of 300 tons. Commanded by Captain Turner. and which left Sydney on Monday, 8th instant. bound for Grafton. was wrecked to-day. she…

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Total Wreck of the Californian Mail Steamer

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 11 May 1875 · page 2

The London Steamship Schiller, homeward bound with the March Australian Mails, via San Francisco, was totally wrecked off the! Scilly…

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Arrival of the English Mail, Via Torres Straits. Recovery of a Shipwrecked Boy

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 2

NARCISSE PELATIER DE Sr. GILLS, a boy on board the French ship St. Paul, was wrecked on Russel Island, in 1858, with three hundred and odd Chinese on board, all…

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Loss of the A. S. N. Co.’s Steamer Rangatira. —Latest Particulars

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Lord [?] learn of the complete wreck of the A. S. N. Co.’s steamer Rangatira on a reef off the coast of New Caledonia. Captain Woods is a…

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Extraordinary Bqbbkries on Board a Mail Steamer

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 2

One J. Sprungli, a Swise, has just been at rested at Lisbon on a charge of robbery on board the Pacific at earner Ligu[?], from Liverpool. For the last two years complaints…

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An Aerial Steamer

The Gulgong Evening Argus and Home Rule Mining Record · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 2

MAN has long envied the birds. He moves to and fro always on the dull earth, whilst they flit from tree to tree, and fly about in the free air. David is not the only one who…

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