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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
14 stories in Illawarra's papers
FREDERICK Wilson, one of the crew of the Hellespont, came up to this city last night in company with the survivors of the ill-fated vessel only the second mate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Among the terrible shipping diss[?] of the past month, the loss of the Gossame[?] vessel outward-bound for Adelaide, will possess a specially painful interest for the colonists. This…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MIDWAY between the, ill of Portland and the Lizard, 100 miles or more from either, a promontory which mariners have good cause to dread as far out into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following statement regarding the loss of the Hibernia has been made by three of the passengers:— We commenced out voyage from New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE regret to have to record the total wreck of the fine ship St. vincent, belonging to Messrs. Patter, Wilson, and Co., of Glasgow, which recently arrived from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE exceedingly regret to announces the loss of the P.M. C. S. S. Herman. The following is Captain Newell's account of this accident. —I was ordered to take command of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE schooner I vanhoe, which arrived in harbour yesterday morning, has brought up three sailors, who were wreeked in the barque Syringa, whilst on her passage from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A HEAVY gale from S.E. set in last night, and blew very hard, with intervals of heavy rain, which still continues. the sen rose very rapidly, and broke with great violence across…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the arrival of the s.s. Fire King, the total loss of the schooner Secret is confirmed. Captain M'Kinnon, her commander, and three of her crew arrived by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →H.M.S. ROSARIO returned yesterday from a cruise among the various groups of Islands in the south Pacific, and by Captain Palmer; the commander, we have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Argus of the 20th instant contains the following particulars of the foundering of the steamer Reliance on the 17th :— From Captain Paxton's statement it will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TELEGRAM, received on Tuesday evening, informs us that the schooner Boomerang was wrecked on Tuesday upon a reef outside the Kennedy Shoal, about thirty miles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE mail has brought news of another shocking marine disaster,—that the P. and O. Company's Carnatic, on its way to Bombay with the English mail of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A SERIOUS accident occurred on Friday, resulting in the total loss of the above. named vessel, but providentially the whole of crew were saved. The…
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