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

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1878

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

Wreck of an American Steamer London, February 4

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 9 February 1878 · page 2

The steamer Metropolis was wrecked on the coast of Carolina. A hundred persons were drowned…

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The Lifeboat Work in 1877

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 2

During the year which has just closed (says the Daily News of January 2) the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution have rendered…

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Miscellany. the Lifeboat Story of 1877

The Burrowa News · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 1

During the year which has just closed the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution on different parts of the coasts of the United Kingdom rescued…

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Terrible Shipwreck and Loss of Life

The Burrowa News · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 2

NEWS is just to hand says Monday's S. M. Herald) that the ship Loch Ard, from London to Melbourne, was wrecked on the O[?]way coast near the Gellibrand…

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The Wreck of the Loch Ard

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1878 · page 4

WE regret to find that the evidence given by Mr. Thomas Pearce. the only surviving member of the crew of the Loch Ard, tends to prove that the loss of that vessel added…

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Poetry. [?]At Went Ashore

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 6 July 1878 · page 4

[?] were so enraged At [?]ys who came to swim, They [?]w’d catch the first who pluged A[?] make quick work with him…

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The Wreck of the Loch Ard

The Burrowa News · Saturday 27 July 1878 · page 1

O'er oceans vast, from far-off Albion's shore, The ship Loch Ard bore to this Austral strand Her living freight, that ne'er should any more; Hall with rapturous shouts the promised land…

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Wreck of the James Service

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 August 1878 · page 7

ANOTHER tale of the disaster comes from the sea, and as in the case of the Loch Ard, is accompanied (so far as can be ascertained at present,) with sad loss of life. The…

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Wreck of the Harlaw. Shanghai, August 2

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 7 August 1878 · page 2

The Harlaw, ship which sailed from Sydney on Juno 22, Has gone ashore on the coast near here in a hurricane, and will probably become a total wreck. Part…

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The Wreck of the Dunbar. a Poem by the Late Mr. Samuel Bennett

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 20 August 1878 · page 3

Her broad wing spreading to the breeze, she sailed in all her pride For the shores of far Australia -- o'er the waste of waters wide; France on her weather quarter -- on her lee our father-land…

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Wreck of the Cutter Resser and Murder of the Crew. Newcastle

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 September 1878 · page 2

Captain Allen, harbour-master at Newcastle, received a telegram from Cardwell this morning, reporting that the cutter Resser had been wrecked on King's Reef…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Thursday evening. Wreck of the City of Newcastle

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 September 1878 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday, noon. The steamship City of Newcastle, Captain Summerbell, from Sydney, with passengers and cargo, struck on the rocks…

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Arrival of the Steamer Chimborazo. (From the H. M. Herald.)ADELAIDE

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 17 October 1878 · page 6

THE Chimborazo arrived at Glenelg this morning. She stopped three days and four teen hours at the Cape. Her actual steaming time was thirty-eight days three hours. The…

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