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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1862

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Newcastle. Fearful Gale—loss of the Cumberland Schooner and Five Lives. Sunday, 9 p.m

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 15 April 1862 · page 2

AT daylight this morning a south-west gale set in. The Atlantic, schooner, made the port, and anchored under Nobby's about 9.30 a.m. The Rapid, tug-boat, went out to…

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Launching of the New Steamer for the Clarence

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1862 · page 3

The Agnes Irving, iron paddle steamer, for the Clarence and Richmond Company, was launced on the 29th March…

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Total Loss of the Prince of Wales Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1862 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Diamantina (s.) from the Manning River, we have received the particulars of the loss of one of the finest steamships in the colony. The Prince of Wales was a new ship built expressly for…

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Wreck of the Golden Gate

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1862 · page 3

The steamer Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 21st July for Panama, was burnt to the water's edge on the 27th off Manseanellas. Out of 330 persons on board…

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Arrival of the English Mail. at Adelaide. (From the Herald.) Prorogation of Parliament. Turbulence in Ireland. Increase of Distress in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Forgeries on the Bane of England. Frightful State of Affairs in America. Conscription in the United States. Dreadful Outrage at Athens, in Alabama. Suffering of M'clellan's Army. Defeat of Garibaldi in Calabria. Garibaldi Wounded and Taken Prisoner. Burning of the Steamer Golden Gate, and Loss of 329 LIVES 25,000 Additional French Troops for Mexico. London, August 26th

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 October 1862 · page 3

THE Australian June mails were delivered in London on the 16th and 21st August. Her Majesty was to leave Scotland for the Continent September 1st. After visiting the…

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Wreck of the Prince of Wales —Consignees' Meeting. (Abridged from the Courier.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1862 · page 3

A MEETING of the consignees of the Prince of Wales, steamer, took place on Friday last, 7th instant, in the Municipal Council Chambers, for the purpose of taking into…

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The Steamer Lying in the Stream. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1862 · page 3

SIR,—Perhaps some of the functionaries connected with the C. and R. R. S. N. Company could inform the public how it happens that frequently the steamer hauls away from Fisher's wharf, the evening previous to her…

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