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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
16 stories in Illawarra's papers
The barque Jennie Oswald, Captain Gascogne, anchored in Morton Bay on Tuesday evening, on her voyage from Sir Charles Hardy's Islands. Terres Straits, for Melbourne, From intelligence received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Balclutha with the South Australian portion of the English mails of January last, reached Adelaide about midnight. The mails were received at King George's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Those who remember the days when steam communication between Wollongong and Sydney was limited to the "Old Billy," a craft that would occasionally occupy two or three days in the voyage between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at two a.m. after a passage of 105 hours. The P and O. Company's steamer Madras, Captain Studd, from Galle, reached King George's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Rangatira arrived at Glenelg at two a.m., after a passage of 105hours. The P. and 0. Company's steamer Madras, Captain Studd, from Galle, reached King…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dispatches have been received at the War Department from General Butler, at Ship Island, giving an account of the operations of his department previous to the capture of New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We extract from the China Mail, of May 8th, the following account of a desperate piratical attempt to capture the Iron Prince, a screw steamer, formerly employed in the colonia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The divers who, during the late prevalence of westerly winds, have been engaged in attempting to recover some of the remains of the unfortunate Dunbar, have succeeded in bringing up some very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From telegrams placed at our disposal by the police authorities, and from information obtained from Sergeant M'Donald, we are enabled to furnish the following, particulars with regard to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the Rangatira, which arrived on Saturday morning, we have received our files of New Zealand papers to the 20th instant. We deeply regret to have to record the total wreck of the Intercolonial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We regret to have to record the loss of the fine steamer Prince of Wales, belonging to the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, at Camden Haven, about 180 miles to the north of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the arrival of the Diamantina (s.) from the Manning River, we have received the particulars of the loss of one of the finest steamships in the colony. The Prince of Wales was a new ship, built…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 21st July for Panama, was burnt to the water's edge on the 27th off Manseanellas. Out of 330 persons on board only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advices from Nassau state that the steamer Herald was fired upon and chased into that port by the Federal frigate Adirondale and that the mail steamer British Queen was boarded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Advices from Nassau state that the British steamer Herald was fired upon and chased into that port by the Federal frigate Adirondac, and that the mail steamer British Queen was boarded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A severe storm raged in this neighborhood on Sunday night, the 19th. Several casualties occurred eurred in the Mersey, but happily unattended with loss of life. At an early hour on Monday…
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