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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1873

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Arrivals and Departures of English Mail Steamer, Via Suez, 187

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 July 1873 · page 2

ARRIVAL AT SYDNEY. January.. 17 February.. 14 March.. 14…

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Wreck of the City of Washington. London, July 7

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 July 1873 · page 2

The steamer City of Washington (Inman's line), Captain Lochead, has been wrecked on her voyage between Liverpool and New York. All hands were saved…

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The Wreck of the Washington. London, July 10

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 July 1873 · page 2

The steamer Washington was wrecked within ten miles of the seene of the Atlantic disaster, near Prospect…

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The Wreck of the Washington. London, July 18

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 July 1873 · page 2

The certificate of the captain of the steamer Washington, wrecked near Prospect, has been suspended for twelve months…

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Wreck of the Steamer Rangitoto. (From the Empire.) [Per Anglo-australian Telegram Company.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 August 1873 · page 4

McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co.'s fine steamer Rangitoto was totally wrecked on July 30, on Jackson's Point, at the entrance to Queen Charlotte's Sound, Cook's Straits. The steamer was wrecked in…

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WRECK. London, August 11

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1873 · page 2

The Dunmail was wrecked shortly after leaving Liverpool for Melbourne. The passengers and crew were saved…

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Seizure of a British Steamer. London, August 14

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 August 1873 · page 2

A Spanish war vessel has seized a steamer bearing the British flag, and which was about to land arms for the Carlists…

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The Darling River Navigation. Arrival of the Excelsior Steamer at Walgett. (From our own Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1873 · page 2

Walgett—the terra incognita of New South Wales Bishops, Ministers (both lay and clerical), clergymen (high and low), sheep inspectors, postal inspectors, and police inspectors, cads, carriers, and…

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Wreck of a Tea Ship. London, September 1

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 September 1873 · page 2

The R. J. Robertson, from Foo Chow to Adelaide, with a cargo of teas, has been wrecked…

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Seizure of the Schooner Lavina, and Massacre of Four of Her Crew by the Natives of New Ireland

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 September 1873 · page 2

The following particulars of this sad occurrence have been kindly furnished to the S.M. Herald by Captain Neil Brodie, late master of the ill-fated vessel, who with the remnant of his crew arrived in…

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The Steamer Murillo. London, September 4

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 September 1873 · page 2

The Spanish steamship Murillo, which is supposed to be the vessel that ran into and sank the Northfleet, has been seized at Dover, and is being taken to London in custody of the Admiralty…

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A Steamer Burned on the Potomac— Fifty Lives Lost

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 October 1873 · page 3

Fredericksburg, August 8.—The steamer Wawaset, running on the Potomac River, between Washington and Curryman, took fire about noon to-day, at Chatalon Landing, and…

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The Pacific Mail Steamer Macgregor. (From the Melbourne Argus, December 8.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1873 · page 4

The Macgregor, the new steamship which is to take the first mails from Sydney to San Francisco under the new contract, arrived in Hobson's Bay on Saturday, and was at once taken alongside the…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer "Nubia." (From the Evening News' Melbourne Correspondent.) [By Electric Telegraph.] Saturday, 2 p.m

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1873 · page 2

The P. and O. Co.'s Royal Mail Steamship Nubia, arrived at Queenscliff at 8.30 this morning, with the European and Indian mails. The correspondence and letters from England via…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer "Nubia."

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1873 · page 2

The Suez mail steamer Nubia reached Sydney on Tuesday, and the mails for Maitland were delivered yesterday morning, We take the following extracts from the Home News and the European Mail of the…

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