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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
18 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
WE are this week called upon to chronicle the total loss of the schooner Coquette, Captain BROWS, which took place on Thursday. It appears from the few particulars that have reach[?] as that the Coquette, from Sydney arrived of the Clarence Heads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE intelligence of the suicide of the greatly-respected captain of the Great Britain steamer was communicated by telegram last night at a late hour, and the news spread rapidly through the city. In the places…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FOR the frist time, probably, in the history of Anglo-Australian inter-communication, the latest newe from England, and the most expeditions in transit by the long sea-route, has been brought by a colffer. a kind of craft proverbial for alow progress…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Polmaize which left Keppel Bay on Friday last, for London, is wrecked. She encountered a stiff south-easter, and struck a reef to leeward of Masthead Island at twenty minutes past four o'clock on Sunday morning. There was a very high sea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, WEDNESDAY.—At the inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the Polmaise, Captain Seaward said that on getting to sea he found his own chronometer ninety miles out, and the ship's twenty miles, and that the had Intended to go to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE first intimation which reached Dover of what proved to he one of the most fearful shipwrecks of modern dale was the arrival in the harbour at three o'clock on January 23rd, of the good lugger Mary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON the 26th ultimo, the steamer Vesta, after safely towing the schooner Princess Louise to sea, in endeavouring to re-enter the port in the vening, evidently mistook the channel, and struck on the south spit, where she has become a total wreck:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY cable, we learn that the steamer Atlantic, 4000 tons, full of passengers, from London and bound to New York, was totally wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia, on the 20th of March last, and nearly six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EVERYONE must rejoice, that there is some prospect of the cruel commander and crew of the Spanish steamer Murillo being brought to book for their horrible inhumanity. We have heard it argued that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CAPTAIN W. O. [?]ER, late master of the [?], and R.R.S. N. Company's steamship Fire King, recently wreeked on the Manning River, arrived at Sydney at one o'clock on Wednesday morning, in the Morpeth (s.). The following particulars of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON the first day of the month information was received from Philadelphin that the Atlantic steamer, out eleven days, with rough passage, falling short of coal on March 31st,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Intelligence lins been received of tho loss of the iron schooner Prince of Wales, belonging to Mr, Edward Lowther, of Sydney, and laden with a cargo of grain for Messrs. Nipper and Sec, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS vessel, so well appreciated by the public travelling between this port and the Clarence River, has been from necessity withdrawn from the line for the last five weeks, it having been necessary to supply new bo[?]lers and place her in such thorough…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE New Zealand Herald contains the following telegram re porting the total lo[?] of the steamer Rang[?]toto, trading between Melbourne and New Zealand, at Queen Charlotte's Sound, on the 30th July:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FROM papers to hand by the Wonga Wonga, it appears that the gale that has passed over Auckland has been felt with undue severity in the south, and many vessels have succumbed to its fury. The following are the particulars ascertained from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following particulars of this sad occurrence have been kindly furnished by Captain Neil Brodie, late master of the illfated vessel, who, with the r[?]mnant of his crew, arrived on Sunday in H. M. schooner Beagle:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BY the arrival of H.M. schooner Renard, we have been placed in possession of the following particulars respecting the wholesale and most terrible slaughter of the crew of the barque Pluto, which have been politely furnished:—The Pluto, barque, 286…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR BOOTH asked the Colonial Treasurer,—I "Is there a record kept of the names of the vessels wrecked on the count of New South Wales, and the names of the persons last in them? 2 Will the Hon, the Colonial…
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