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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1899

14 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers

This Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner

Forbes Times · Saturday 14 January 1899 · page 3

A CONSIDERABLE amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a few hours after being successfully floated. Great…

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The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner

Western Champion · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 14

A considerable amount of welldeserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total…

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The Hereward Wreck. Sympathy with the Owner

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 24 March 1899 · page 2

A considerable amount of well-deserved sympathy was expressed for the owner when it became known that the Hereward had become a total wreck a few haurs after…

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Wreck in the English Channel. London, April 1

Forbes Times · Saturday 8 April 1899 · page 6

A terrible disaster oocurred in the English Channel on Thursday. The mail steamer Stella, belonging to the London and South-Western Railway Co., left Southampton…

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A woman the Solitary Surviver of a Shipwreck

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 22 April 1899 · page 1

On April 3rd, 1886, it was publicly announced that Queen Victoria had written to Miss Elizabeth Mouatt, expressing her sympathy with the…

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Wreck of the Lock Sloy Adelaide, Tuesday, Noon

Forbes Times · Saturday 13 May 1899 · page 5

THE Cape Borda lighthouse-keeper telegraphs that a lad named May has arrived there from Rocky River, on the south side of Kangaroo Island, with information that the ship Loch Sloy was wrecked…

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The Finding of the Steamer Perthshire

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 2

The career of the Perthshire in mid. ocean reads like a story from fiction Two days after she left port she broke her shaft and for fifty odd days or so…

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Telegrams Sydney, Friday. Terrible Wreck

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 2

The ship Carlisle Castle from Liverpool to Fremantle, was wrecked near Rockingham, seventeen miles from her destination. There is no trace of any survivors and it…

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Wreckers

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1899 · page 2

A determined attempt was made to wreck the southern train near Ashfield station last night…

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The Roller Steamer

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 2 September 1899 · page 2

The roller, steamer has long been, a dream of marine engineering. Hitherto it has, remained, a, dream, In the Ernest Bazin, it looks, like being…

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The Biggest Steamer

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 8

Every few months, the astonished Sydney public are. awakened in the. morning by an, announcement in their newspaper [?] the steamer so and so…

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The Barque Drot Tragedy. a Terrible Affair. Shipwrecked Sailor Killed and Eaten by His Companions

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

THE details of the barque Drot tragedy were received on Saturday by the R.M.S. Alameda. A dispatch from Charleston (S.C.), dated September 2, says:—The British steamship Woodruff, from Hamburg…

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Denton Grange Wrecked

Western Champion · Friday 15 December 1899 · page 11

The transport ship Denton Grange is ashore at Las Palmas. The cargo includes a number of traction engines, 140 ambulance vans, 170 waggons,…

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Steamer Sunk

Western Champion · Friday 22 December 1899 · page 11

Captain Logan, of the R.M.S. Arcadia, reports seeing a large steamer sunk on the east side of White Top rocks, near Albany…

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