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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
14 stories in Illawarra's papers
The Australian September Mails were delivered in London on the 19th November. Her Majesty now resides at Windsor, and is in good health…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the night of the 2nd instant, Secretary Seward received a despatch from Mr Hale, our Consul-General at Alexandria, Egypt, stating that he had arrested John H. Surratt, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The San Francisco papers publish full details of the wreck of the British barque Coya, Captain Paige, bound from Sydney, Now South Wales to San Francisco, at New Year's Point, San…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Schooner Tawera, J. Keenedy, master, arrived yesterday with the Auckland portion of the survivors form the wreck of the screw steamer Star of the Evening, namely,—andrew Johnson, carpenter;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Tawera, J. Kennedy, master, arrived yesterday with the Auckland land portion of the survivors from the wreck of the screw steamer Star of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The mail steamer Avoca arrived at Melbourne this morning, bringing news to the 14th February. The Imperial Parliament was opened on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—In your issue of the 29th instant I observe a letter from Mr J. Shoobert, in which that gentleman states you were wrong in two particulars in the report you gave of the wreck of the Moselle, at Bulli…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GEORGE BELFOUR, chief officer of the schooner Cyclone, who, with his shipmates, arrived in Newcastle on Sunday, having walked from Nelson's Bay, says :—"The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The above fast and favorite steamer which has for some time past been undergoing alterations and repairs at Sydney arrived in our port yesterday, after making one of the quickest passages ever run between Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MORE unaccountable and unexpected shipwreck never occurred in the annals of this port. The Goldseeker strayed away into the offing when she ought to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are informed that Mr D'Flon, of Bellambi, has purchased the hull of the Catherine, which was recently wrecked in Wollongong harbour. Appeals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EARLY on Tuesday morning last, this vessel—ketch—commanded by Captain Ross, arrived in this port from Bulli laden with timber and coal. Immediately after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scarcely have the effects of late disastrous floods softened down in the public mind, ere it is our painful duty to record a terrible disaster on the return of boisterous weather. On Sunday last, about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I regret to record the loss of the two vessels above named, on Saturday evening last, about nine o'clock. The Matedor went ashore at the same place that the Moselle was lost about eight or nine months ago,…
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