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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1863

10 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Stranding of the P. and O. Company's Steamer, Colombo

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 13 January 1863 · page 3

The P. and O. Company's steamer Colombo, left Point de Galle on the 17th November, with the Australian mails for Suez; some fifteen hours after the weather…

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Total Wreck of the Barque Rebecca

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1863 · page 2

ON CLARKE'S ISLAND.—Captain M'Kellar, of the schooner Urania, has courtesouly furnished us with the following graphic account of the run of the schooner from Melbourne,…

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Federal Wae Steamer Foundered at Sea

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1863 · page 3

The iron-clad war steamer Monitor foundered at sea on the 2nd January, with loss of officers and thirty-eight men. It is again rumoured that Burnside has…

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Capture of the California Mail Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1863 · page 3

The steamer Alabama has succeeded in capturing the Californian mail steamer, with one million-and-a-half dollars on board. Prince Napoleon has again offered to…

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Arrival of the English Mail. [By Electric Telegraphy Through Greville and Bird.] [A portion of the following telegram was issued to our subscribers as far as practicable on Thursday morning last.] Stranding of the P. & O. Company's Steamer Nemesis

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1863 · page 2

The detention of the mail steamer Behan has been occasioned by the stranding of the P. and O. Company's mail steamer Nemesis from Calcutta, upon a rock at the entrance…

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The Steamer's Trips to Smith's Flat. to the Editor of the Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 31 March 1863 · page 3

SIR,—Can you inform us at Smith's Flat, how it is we have always to wait the convenience of the agent in sending the Ulmarra here. Is it because it does not pay the company? perhaps for the want of opposition,…

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New Steamer Building for the Clarence River Trade

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 May 1863 · page 2

Grafton has another steamer building from the lines of the Agnes Irving, but she will be fifteen feet longer. She will be ready for lannchiug in about four months time…

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Wreck of the Boomerang

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 16 June 1863 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Clarence, on Tuesday, we learn that the A. S. N. Company's steamer Boomerang, Captain Chatfield, ran aground on the upper flat in the Fitzroy River on the…

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Arrival and Trial Trip of the Uloom River Steamer

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 14 July 1863 · page 2

THE Grafton, steamer, with the new river steamer Uloom in [?]w, arrived safely at 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday, having made the [?] from Sydney to the Clarence bar in forty-six…

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A Visit to the Wreck of the Mimosa (S)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 October 1863 · page 3

MESSRS. HIXSON MORIARTY, AND Mr. M'NAB, returned on Wednesday morning from the wreck of the Mimosa. We are therefore enabled to give full particulars. The Kembla (s.), left Sydney with the…

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