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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Shipwrecks & the sea
12 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers
"ON board City of Gratton. December 31. 1882. To those brave men. Antonio Costa. Vito Loseocco, and Peter Jules, of the schooner C. Walker, and to other good friends at Yamba, Huka. Grafton, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steam tug Francis Hixson is now considered a hopeless wreck, as the sea is making a clean breach over her. The public censure the captain, officers, and crew…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A SPECIAL meeting of the Committee of Management of the National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales was held at the Exchange on Friday afternoon. Captain Hixson, President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Francis Hixson is a total wreck. The Platypus has come in twice her length by the morning tide, and it is expected she will come in sufficient to-morrow morning to admit of her cargo being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Sydney Exchange, this afternoon, Captain Hixson presented each of the four men who saved the survivors fro the wreck of the s.s. New England, with a gold medal of the Shipwreck Society…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ceremony of presenting the gold medals, awarded by the National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales, to the four brave men who so nobly rescued 11 persons from off the ill-fated New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Marine Board was held on Thursday. Present—Captain Hixson (president), M'Bean, Robertson, Jenkins, Broomfield, and Commander Lindemann (secretary)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE district presentations to the seamen of the C. Walker and Mr Lemaire, were made on Friday night, in the hall of the School of Arts, which was as full as it could well hold; a large number having to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Marine Board held an inquiry on Monday into the circumstances attending the loss of the schooner Colleen Dhas. 103 tons, which occurred on the Richmond River bar on the 1st April. Peter O'Brien, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE C. and R. R. S. N. Company's steamer Coraki, which has been employed in the trade between Sydney and the Richmond River since 1879, was lately withdrawn, owing to her being too small to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Commissioner of Trade and Customs in Victoria has received the subjoined communication from Miss Carmichael, one of the two survivors from the wreak of the illfated ship Loch Ard, at Moonlight Head, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SOME time ago Mr A. Kethe. J.P., whilst travelling in the northern portion of the colony, visited the Brunswick River and Byron Bay, and whilst there was impressed with the fact that the residents of…
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