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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

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

Foundering of a Steamer in the Bay of Biscay.—sufferings of the Crew

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 13 January 1875 · page 4

ON Sunday the steamer Horseguard of Leith brought into Falmouth McCormack and Poster, the third engineer and one of the firemen of the steamer Mary of Glasgow,…

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The Wreck of the Rajah

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 February 1875 · page 2

"TAKE that man below and put him in his berth, you lubbers." And walking aft, Harry Maynard, chief mate of the Rajah (a native craft or country…

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Floods, Gales, Wrecks

The Yass Courier · Friday 5 March 1875 · page 2

THE last seven days have been days of fearful disaster to the residents in the neighbourhood of the Hunter, the Williams, the Paterson, the Hawkesbury, and the Nepean. At West…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. Brisbane

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 3

THE steamer Leichardt has arrived from Cooktown, and reports having picked up. a boat containing four men, belonging to the steamer Gothenburg, which the men reported wrecked on Flinders'…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. (From the S. M. Herald’s Telegrams.) BRISBANE

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 March 1875 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE has just been received that twenty-three of the passengers and crew of the Gothenburg have reached Port Denison, and that all the rest, with the exception of those who drifted away in…

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Wreck the Gothenburg. Narrative of the Survivors

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 24 March 1875 · page 4

THE four [?]who escaped from the wrecked Gothenburg in the captain’s gig, and, were picked up by the Leichhardt, arrived in Melbourne on Tuesday. They are—H. Nelson,…

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The Gothenburg Wreck. — the Diver's Narrative

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 March 1875 · page 2

THE following is the report of Mr. James Putwain, the diver, who has been working at the wreck of the steamship Gothenburgh:—…

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A Mail Steamer on Fire

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 3 April 1875 · page 4

BY the arrival of the Tagus at Plymouth details are to hand of the recent dangerous accident that befel the Royal Mail Company’s steamship Nile, Captain R. Revett,…

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Wreck of the Barque Aurora and Loss of Eight Lives

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 14 April 1875 · page 4

ALFRED ERRIDGE, boatswain on board the barque Aurora, and others of the survivors, Shave arrived at Poole, whore the vessel was owned by Messrs. Ballard and Willis. The…

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The Home-wreck

The Burrowa News · Saturday 8 May 1875 · page 4

A FEW years since I visited Devonshire to make the acquaintance of some distant relations, whom circumstances had prevented me from before seeing. Amongst others there was one who lived…

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Special Telegrams. Awful Shipwreck on the Cornish Coast. London

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 May 1875 · page 2

The mail steamer Schiller, from New York to Liverpool with the Australian mails (vid San Francisco) on board, has been totally wrecked. Two hundred and fifty passengers…

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The Home Wreck

The Burrowa News · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 4

Months rolled past, and Herbert began to find his position, at home far from agreeable. His father had sunk into a mere nonentity through his mother's superior energy. Hence, in her hands…

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The Home-wreck

The Burrowa News · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 4

These favourable symptoms Mrs. Hardman reported to Dodbury, who, seeing his daughter's perfect resignation, thought it might be not imprudent to return home, especially as young…

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The Home-wreck. (Concluded.)

The Burrowa News · Saturday 29 May 1875 · page 4

Dodbury sent instantly to Mrs. Hardman such a letter as was calculated to break the news not too abruptly to her. No time was mentioned for i Herbert's arrival so that suspense and some…

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Total Loss of the Steamer Rangatira

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 30 June 1875 · page 2

The Australian Steam Navigation Company, by their efforts to open up and encourage direct communication with Fiji, have sustained the loss of one of their finest screw…

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Wreck of the Mail-steamer Schiller

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 2

A TERRIBLE disaster has occurred off the Scilly Islands. On the night of May 7, the mail-steamer Schiller, on her voyage from New York to Ply[?], ran on for Re[?]iver…

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The Wreck of the Schiller

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 7

THE New York Herald has received by-cable the following account of the wreck of the Schiller:— For several days previous to the 7th of May, the weather was thick and hazy, during which time it…

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Wreck of the Brig Ben Nevis.—narrow Escape of the Crew

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 July 1875 · page 2

SHORTLY after eleven o'clock last night, the captain and crew of the Ben Nevis—which vessel left Newcastle, coal laden for Melbourne, on the previous Friday—arrived at this port…

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Arrival of the Suez Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 24 July 1875 · page 3

THE2. and 0. Company's mail-steamer Pera arrived off Glenolg on Wednesday with the English mails viu Suez. As usual, most of the principal items of news now…

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Extraordinary Robberies on Board a Mail Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 October 1875 · page 2

ONE J. Sprungli, a Swiss, has just been arrested at Lisbon on a charge of robbery on board the Pacific steamer Liguria, from Liverpool. For the last two years complaints…

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