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Mid North Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1882

11 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Disastrous Shipwreck. (By Telegram From Port Macquarie.) 5th January, 1882,.11 30 a.m

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 6 January 1882 · page 2

THE Wotonga steamer, (A.S.N. Co.) Captn. Maclean, left Sydney last Sunday morning for Brisbane, with several passengers, including Honorable T. Perkins, W. G…

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Steamers Wrecked

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 10 February 1882 · page 2

THIS continual wrecking of steamers on the coast is becoming monotonous. And as one of tho ill-effects of mon[?] my is that it provokes listlessness, and carelessness, the…

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The Wreck of the Fiona

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 17 February 1882 · page 2

THE circumstances connected with the wrecks of steamers on the coast appear to have a wonderful identity. There is a sort of evidence given before the Marine Board…

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Wreck of the Prima Donna Off [?] Supposed Loss of Five Lives

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 14 April 1882 · page 3

We have to record another marine disaster on the coast of New South Wales, only a few miles from Sydney, by which, it is to be feared, five men have lost their lives. The…

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Wreck of the Barque Don Guillermo. (From the Papers.) Brisbane

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 9 June 1882 · page 5

The barque Don Guillermo, which left Brisbane for Apia on 17th January, has foundered at Vavau, with 600 tons of copra aboard. During a hurricane the vessel’s…

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The Steamer “Austral”

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 30 June 1882 · page 3

THE London Times thus refers to the great steamer Austral, now on her way to these colonies :—This latest addition to the Orient line will, it may be predicted, effect…

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Latest Telegrams. SYDNEY, 13th July 1882 5 p.m. London. Monday. Wreck

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 14 July 1882 · page 5

The Dutch man-of-war Ander has been wrecked—eight people drowned. Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone has determined to accept…

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Public Meeting, Wingham. Steamer Trade

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 25 August 1882 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting was held at the School of Arts Wingham, on Saturday last to consider certain matters in connection with the steamer trade to the Manning River…

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The Wreck of the Wohiora

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 10 November 1882 · page 2

IT is just possible that the wreck of the ill-fated steamer Woniora was, as suggested by the Herald, one of those terrible occurrences that can only be accounted for as…

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Foundering of the Orient Steamer Austral. (By Special Telegram.)Saturday. 11th Nov., 1882

The Manning and Hastings Advocate · Friday 17 November 1882 · page 3

The Orient Steamer Austral foundered at her moorings, Neutral Bay, at four o’clock this morning. No lives lost…

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[?] of the Steamer [?] Clarence Bar. [?] Persons Still on the Wreck Received Thursday, 2 p.m

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 30 December 1882 · page 3

The steamer "New England," which left [?] yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon for Sydney the bar at the Clarence [?] with great force, and subsequently…

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