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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
18 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
IT has been briefly announced that an emigrant vesel which left Hamburg for Australia a short time since, with nearly four hundred persons on board was lost on the coast of Holland during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CAPTAIN MAIDES, of the Grafton steamer, which arrived at the Company's wharf on Thursday last, reports that at three p.m. on Wednesday, the 6th instant, on his passage from Syndey to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday afternoon intelligence was received that the brig Gresian. 'of Hobart Town, and last from Sydney, was a total wreck on the Nine Mile Beach, which lies between Red Head and Lake…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY telegram, we learn that the C. and R. R. S. N. Company's steamer Rainbow has been lost; but the information that has reached us is of a very meagre character, and gives no particulars; not has the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer New Moon left the Macleay bar at 9 a.m. on the 2nd instant: 3 p.m. encountered heavy S.S.W. gale; was forced to bear up for Trial Bay. 8.30 blowing a perfect hurricane,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report was brought up from Bellambi on Sunday, overland, stating that the Reaper, schooner, of 40 tons, from the Richmond River, with a cargo of cedar, for Sydney, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE heavy gale, which swept along our coast on the 2nd and 3rd instant, has left a fearful record of its fatal effects. We are already in possession of the particulars relating to the loss of four ships, but it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Julia, schooner, Captain Inglis, left the Macleay River on the 2nd instant, bound to Sydney, with a full cargo of grain, the wind at the time being from S.S.W. to S. As it was blowing fresh, with light…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CAPTAIN ELLIS, R.N., late naval agsnt, died on board the Northam, on the 6th July. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, 27th June…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday morning the schooner Atlantic was observed in the bight northward of Nobby's apparently disabled, and bearing away towards Port Stephens. At the same time a large steamer, supposed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steam-tug Lowest[?] a vessel of about 60-horse power, and valued at £3000, left Newcastle about twelve o'clock on Friday, destined for Sydney, whither she was going in order to tow up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The A. S. N. Company's steamer Samson was towed into Newcastle on Tuesday last by the steamship Balcutha, in a very crippled state. Captain Adams, of the Coonanbara, steamer, which arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The H.R.N.S.N. Co's steamer Paterson, Captain W. Summerbell, sta[?]ed from Newcastle for Sydney about six o'clock on Friday evening. The weather was then comparatively calm, and there was no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Urara (s.), which arrived at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, we learn that the Lighthousekeeper at Port Stephens reports the barque. Tybee' which sailed from Newcastle, on Friday, the 30th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer New Moon, bound from the Macleay to Sydney, was lost at Hannah Bay, near Port Stephens, on Saturday night. One seaman, named Richard Day, was washed on shore; but he can…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following is a copy of a letter received from the pilot stationed at Bellambi, and dated the 1st instant:—"The Breadalbane, barque, Saabye master, went ashore this morning about 2½ miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A short distance from the Gertrude, the schooner Jane, another of the coal-laden fleet which left Newcastle on Friday morning, was [?]ast ashore, about the same hour, and became a total wreck—all hands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Gertrude, brig, 175 tons, the property of Dr. Bowker, and Captain Boyce, of Newcastle, left that port in company with several other coast-laden vessels between nine and ten o'clock on Friday…
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