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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1859

7 stories in Murray's papers

Awful Shipwreck on the Irish Coast. Four Hundred Lives Lost

The Border Post · Wednesday 20 July 1859 · page 3

The “Terrific Register” would hardly supply the details of a worse catastrophe than that of the wreck of the emigrant ship Pomona, on the Irish coast, at the close of…

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Total Wreck of the Admella. Loss of Several Lives

The Border Post · Saturday 13 August 1859 · page 2

The steamer “Admella,” trading between Melbourne and Adelaide, was wrecked off Cape Northumberland, on Saturday morning, August 6th, about 5 a.m. The vessel struck…

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Latest Intelligence. by Electric Telegraph. Friday Evening. From the Wreck of the Admella

The Border Post · Saturday 13 August 1859 · page 2

Coast 7.30 a.m. Both Boats were tried again this morning and beaten back, About a dozen survivors yet on the wreck. As soon as the boats crew have recruited a little, they…

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Latest Intelligence. by Electric Telegraph. 8.30 Saturday Evening. the Wreck of the Admella

The Border Post · Wednesday 17 August 1859 · page 1

Life boat from shore has a rope attached to the wreck. Sea running high; three other boats being in attendance near the wreck. 9 a.m…

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Seizure of the Steamer Lady Augusta

The Border Post · Wednesday 31 August 1859 · page 1

A correspondent writes as follows, concerning the proceedings in a case, the unfavorable termination of which was yesterday announced…

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Colonial. Wrecks of the Barque Marina and Ship Sapphire, in Torres STRAITS.(From the Sydney Empire.)

The Border Post · Saturday 24 December 1859 · page 2

The A.S.N. Company’s steamship Eagle, Capt. Chatfield, which arrived from Port Curtis last night, brings the crew of the barque Marina, which was wrecked on Raine’s Island, in Torres…

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Miscellaneous. the Burning of the Schooner Pearl, of Anatam, and Massacre of Her Crew

The Border Post · Saturday 31 December 1859 · page 2

[The following account of the massacre of the crew, and burning of the schooner Pearl, of Autum, is politely furnished by a lady. whose husband was a passenger on board the…

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