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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1868

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Dreadful Hurricane in the West Indies. Eighty-two Wrecks. Eight Hundred Lives Lost. (From the Panama Star and Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 7 January 1868 · page 3

The Royal Mail steamship Salent arrived at Aspinwall on the 12th November, at 8-15 a.m., bringing mails and passengers from Southampton. She brings also intelligence, of a fearful hurricane…

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Discovery of the Fate of the Ship General Grant, [?] Marvellous Wreck[?]

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1868 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE has been received by the P.N.Z., and A.R.M. Co.'s steamship Tararua, from New Zealand, that the brig Amherst had arrived at Invercargill, from the Auckland Islands, with ten of the passengers…

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Discovery of the Fate of the Ship General Grant. Marvellous Wreck

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1868 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE has been received by the P. N. Z., and A. R. M. Co.'s steamship Tararua, from New Zealand, that the brig Amherst had arrived at Invercargill, from the Auckland Islands, with ten of the passengers…

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Wreck of the Ship General Grant. (From the Southland News, January 14th.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1868 · page 1

ONE more sad story of disastrous shipwreck and loss of life at the Auckland Islands has to be placed on record. Early yesterday morning a telegram was received announcing the arrival at the Bluff of the…

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Wreck of the Ship General Grant. (From the Southland News, January 14th.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1868 · page 1

ONE more sad story of disastrous shipwreek and loss of life at the Auckland Islands has to be placed on record. Early yesterday morning n telegram was received announcing the arrival at the Bluff of the…

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Blowing Up of a Greek War Steamer. Supposed Loss of Fifty Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1868 · page 4

A MOST disastrous explosion oocurred in the Mersey on the 20th November, at about twenty minutes past six o'clock a.m. It appears that the Greek war steamer Bubulina (formerly the famous Confederate…

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Blowing Up of a Greek War Steamer. Supposed Loss of Fifty Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1868 · page 4

A MOST disastrous explosion occurred in the Mersey on the 20th November, at about twenty minutes past six o'clock a.m. It appears that the Greek war steamer Bubulina (formety the famous Confederate…

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The Late Shipwreck at the Auckland Islands

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1868 · page 1

THE following sensible suggestions (says the Argus) for the benefit of shipwrecked people on the Auckland Islands are from Mr. J. P. Meadows, of the whaling brig Amherst, who writes to us from Bluff Harbour:…

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Wrecks and Disasters

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1868 · page 2

FOUNDERING OF THE SCHOONER TERRARA.—This vessel, the property of Messrs. W. Hewlett and Rice, left Sydney for the Macleay River on Tuesday, the 4th instant, and at two a.m. on Wednesday, when off…

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The Late Shipwreck at the Auckland Islands

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1868 · page 1

THE following sensible suggestions (says the Argus) for the benefit of shipwreeked people on the Auckland Islands are from Mr. J. P. Meadows, of the whaling brig Amherst, who writes to us from Bluff Harbour:…

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Wrecks and Disasters

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1868 · page 2

FOUNDERING OF THE SCHOONER TERRARA.—This vessel, the property of Messrs. W. Hezlett and Rice, left Sydney for the Macleay River on Tuesday, the 4th instruit, and at two a.m. on Wednesday, when off…

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Total Wreck of the Brig Esperanza, at Bird Island. Loss of Ten Lives, Including the Captain, and His Wife and Child. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

ONE of the most distressing and painful wreeks that has taken place on our coast for some time occurred on Sunday last. The well-known brig Esperanza, Baker, master, coal laden, bound for Melbourne, was…

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Wreck of the Barque Chelydra.—one Man Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

THE barque Chelydra, 300 tons, Captain Lowe, from Melbourne, bound to Newcastle to load with coal, was lost near Port Stephens on Sunday. The fallowing particulars from our Newcastle correspondent were…

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Wrecks of the Cheetah, Abbey, and Raven, Schooners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 3

The Cheetah, Abbey, and Raven, schooners, were all wrecked near Crowdy Head, last Saturday week, the 15th instant, but without any loss of life, the whole of those on board, getting safely on shore…

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Total Wreck of the Brigantine Kellermont

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

THE brigantine Kellermont, the property of Mr. Robert Drysdale, of this city, went on shore on Sunday morning last, in Broken Bay, and became a total wreck. Captain Hamilton and the crew, who…

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Total Wreck of the Brig Esperanza, at Bird Island. Loss of Ten Lives, Including the Captain, and His Wife and Child. (From the Herald.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

ONE of the most distressing and painful wrecks that has taken place on our coast for some time occurred on Sunday last. The well-known brig Esperanza, Baker, master, coal laden, bound for Melbourne, was…

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Total Wreck of the Brigantine Kellermont

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

THE brigantine Kellermont, the property of Mr. Robert Drysdale of this city, went on shore on Sunday morning last, in Broken Bay, and became a total wreek. Captain Hamilton and the crew, who…

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Wreck of the Barque Chelydra—one Man Drowned

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 2

THE harque Chelydrn, 300 tons, Captain Lowe, from Melbourne, bound to Newcastle to load with coal, was lost near Port Stephens on Sunday. The following particulars from our Newcastle correspondent were…

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Wrecks of the Cheetah, Abbey, and Raven, Schooners

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1868 · page 3

The Cheetah, Abbey, and Raven, schooners, were all wrecked near Crowdy Head, last Saturday week, the 15th instant, but without any loss of life, the whole of those on board, getting safely on shore…

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Wreck of the Brig Fortune.—ten Lives Lost

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 17 March 1868 · page 2

IN addition to the loss on the New Zealand coast of the Echunka, the steamer Wiliam Miskin, the Star of Tasmania, the Water Nymph, and schooner Otago (particulars of which were published in the Sydney…

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