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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1871

27 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 2

Wreck of the Ship Loch Levin

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1871 · page 3

THE Loch Levin, ship, from Melbourne, to London has been lost on King's Island, Bass's Straits, the captain having been drowned. The Coorong and Taurara, steamers, on receipt of the news, at once…

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Fearful Shipwreck. the Captain Saved After Being One Hundred and Nine Days on the Wreck.—passengers and Crew Starved

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 21 November 1871 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Nebraska we have received, through the countesy of Mr. Craig, the following particulrs of the wreck of a brig, and the fearful sufferings of the crew and passengers:- The Nebraska arrived at Honolulu at 3 p. m. on the 21st of…

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Capsizing of the Ketch Tim Whiffler and Loss of Three Lives

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1871 · page 2

THE Bungaree, tug, has just returned (says our Newcastle correspondent) from her morning cruise in search of any towage, and brings a seaman named Berthes Welop, who was picked up off Bird Island, early this morning, floating on a booby hatch,…

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English News. Via Suez. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Sydney, Monday night. Loss of the Australian Mail Steamer Rangoon

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1871 · page 5

THE P. and O. Company's steamer Behar, has arrived at King George's Sound, en route to Sydney, and by the arrival of the branch steamer at Adelaide, at 1 a.m. on Monday, we are in receipt of the sad…

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Wreck of the Ranooon. European and Indian Mails for Australia Lost. Three Native 'Wreckers' Supposed to Be Lost. (From the Ceylon Observer, November 4th.)

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1871 · page 2

POINT DE GALLE, NOVEMBER 2ND.—The hour appointed for the Rangoon's departure wa[?] 6 p.m., and at that hour although she had not received the local mails on board, she weighed anchor in order to clear the harbour With daylight. Arrived at the…

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Another River Steamer for the Clarence River

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 12 December 1871 · page 2

THE avantages arising from the expeditions transit of goods, and the intercommunication, generally, with the various centre of industrious humanity, have never been more signally er[?]mp[?]ed than in the passenger and general traffic of the…

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Wreck of the Schooner Active

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 26 December 1871 · page 2

THE schooner Active belonging to Messrs. Broomfield and Whitaker, of Sydney, a report of whose loss appeared in the Herald's telegram from Caldw[?]ll, was employed in the pearl shell and [?]-de-mer trade, and advices had been received of…

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