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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1852

4 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

Wreck of the Isabella Watson

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1852 · page 6

THROUGH Capt Brooks, of the Emma, intelligence was received of a large ship, with passengers, name unknown, being ashore on a rock near Point Nepean, on Sunday night. The Sea Belle arrived in the Bay…

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Disasters at Sea. Total Loss of Her Majesty's Steamer Birkenhead

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1852 · page 6

The Birkenhead left Simon's Bay (Cape of Good Hope) at six o'clock on Wednesday evening, February 25th, with the troops enumerated, and at two in the morning struck on a rook just off Cape…

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Destruction of the Royal Mail New Steamer, "Amazon," and Loss of One Hundred and Forty Lives

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 May 1852 · page 6

It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we have to announce a most dreadful catastrophe which has befallen the Royal Mail new steam-packet Amazon. We have to deplore nothing less than the…

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Latest English News. Arrival of the First Steamer From England

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1852 · page 4

THE Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, Chusan, Capt. Downs, arrived at Sydney on Tuesday evening last, from Southampton May 16, St. Vincent May 30,…

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