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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1869

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

The New Road Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1869 · page 2

THE advantages of drawing load on common roads by steam instead of horse power are, under certain circumstances, so great that efforts have been frequently made…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 20 January 1869 · page 2

THE Australasian Steam Navigation Company's branch mail steamer Alexandra has arrived at Glenolg, bringing the South Australian portion of the English and…

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The Wreck of the Hellespont. — Eleven Men Lost

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1869 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT at Pescadera writes to the Alta, November 19th, as follows:— The American ship Hellespont, Captain Cornelius Soule seventy-nine days out from Newcastle…

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The News by the Mail. the Wreck of the Gossamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 February 1869 · page 2

AMONG the terrible shipping disasters of the past month, the loss of the Gossamer, a vessel outward-bound for Adelaide, will possess a specially painful interest for the…

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Latest European News. Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1869 · page 2

THE Australasian Steam Navigation Company's branch mail steamer Alexandra has arrived at Glenelg, bringing the South Australian portion of the English and…

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The News by the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1869 · page 4

THE P. and O. Company's. mail steamer Malta arrived in Sydney harbour on Sunday shortly after seven o'clock p.m. From the news she brings the following items are…

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Wrecks and Missing Vessels

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

IT is to be feared that the .it of casualties already reported from the effect of the late sale will still be supplemented, In as much as the following, vessels known to be at sea have not yet been…

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The Wreck of the Brig Burnett

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 15 May 1869 · page 3

The following fuller particulars of this melancholy occurrence appear in the Maitland Mercury:— The vessel hugged the land at the lighthouse very closely probably with the intention of getting…

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Storms and Wrecks

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 19 May 1869 · page 4

Heavy gales occurred on March 19 and 20, which were attended with disastrous results on some parts of the English coast. At Hoyle, in Cornwall, the National…

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Burning of the Steamer Mittie Stephens—sixty-three Lives Lost

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 31 July 1869 · page 2

DURING the past few days the public mind has been occupied by one of those wholesale calamities which have occurred by the hundred on western waters in the last fifty years,…

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Arrival of the Mail From Europe Arrival of the Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 November 1869 · page 2

THE Australasian Steam Navigation Company's branch, mail steamer has arrived at Glenelg, bringing the South Australian portion of the English and European mails…

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