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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1856

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

Loss of a Sardinian War Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4

A Sardinian war steamer, which was bringing to Constantinople a great number of sick from the ambulance at Balaclava, has foundered, and all on board perished…

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Colonial Intelligence. Sydney. Wreck of the Brig Gazelle, and Horrible Massacre of All on Board

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1856 · page 3

On the 21st of last August, the brig Gazelle, Captain W. T. Parkin, sailed from Sydney bound to Woodlark Island, having on board a quantity of stores for…

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The Steamer Leichardt

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 26 July 1856 · page 6

We have been favoured by Messrs. Acraman, Main, Lindsay, and Co., with the following extract of a letter received from their agent at the Goolwa, and…

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Select Tales. the Dead of the Wreck

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1856 · page 7

THE 29th of October, 1828, opened with as clear and as beautiful an autumual morning as ever dawned upon the plains of Abraham; and for once I arose era the sunbeams began to…

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New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. Thursday, November 13. Wrecks at Newcastle

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1856 · page 6

Mr. TOWNS moved for the production of certain papers in relation to the late shipwrecks at Newcastle.—The motion was put and passed. TRUST FUNDS BILL…

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Recovery of Treasure From the Wreck of the Steamer Pacha

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 December 1856 · page 2

OUR readers will remember that at midnight of the 21st of July, 1851, the steamer Erie ran into the steamer Pacha off Mount Formosa, in the Straits of Malacca, the collision being…

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