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Illawarra · Shipwrecks & the sea
13 stories in Illawarra's papers
A PASSENGER from Honolulu by the M[?] Taylor, which arrived last evening, gives the following account of the loss of the United States ship of war Saginaw:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An inquiry was commenced at Melbourne on the 18th instant befor the Steam Navigation Board into the cause of the wreck of the steamer Barwon, off Cape Bridgewater, on the 3rd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tine inquiry into the loss of the s.s, Barwon off Cape Bridgewater on the 3rd instant on the passage from Adclaide Sydney, was opened by the Steam Na…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The news of the wreck of the steamship Auckland, on her passage from Melbourne, was received in this city late on Saturday night, and caused no small degree of surprise and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. D. M'Naught, late of this city, who is at, present on a visit to England, and who was on board the Queen of the Thames when she was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope, describes, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. D. M'Naught, late of this city, who is at present on a visit to England, and who was on board t o Queen of the Thames when she was wrecked off the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent, writing from Rarotonga on the 11th July, sends the following items to the N. Z. Herald:—The John Williams, missionary barque, arrived here…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FROM the Oma[?] times of the 1st we clip the following:—"We regret to have to report the wreck of the pride of the port—the barque Premier, and almost new…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have been favoured (says the 'Fiji Times' of the 5 instant) with the following particulars of a dreadful tragedy, by a gentleman who accompained the Strathnaver in her labor cruise:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Malacca, with the officers and crew of H.M. ship Me[?] wrecked at St. Paul's Island, arrived in Sydney Harbor yesterday morning at half past 10. From the officers of the M[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHORTLY after 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning the firing of guns from Signal Hill conveyed to the citizens the unwelcome intelligence that a vessel was in distance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Pilotka (Florida) Herald publishes the account of a desperate attack on a river steamer by alligators. "The steamer, whilst going up the Ocklawaha River, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The early arrival of the steamer with the English mail from Suez, and of the S. S. Rangoon with the Australian mail at Galle on the present occasion, intensified the feeling of delay attendant…
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