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Murray · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

13 stories in Murray's papers

The Wreck of the Gothenburg. Latest Particulars. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 11

The steamer Leichardt arrived to-night with the men rescued from the Gothenburg. They say the passengers were Judge Wearing; Mr. Pelham, his associate; Mr. Wheatley, Crown…

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Wreck of the S. S. GOTHENBURG (From Associated Press Telegrams.) BRISBANE March 3

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 3

The steamer [?] which has arrived from Cooktown reports that at daylight last Thursday (February 26 [?] a containing [?] men which had [?] washed away from the…

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Wreck of the Steamer Gothenburg

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 10 March 1875 · page 3

The above named steamer, which has been plying between Adelaide and Port Darwin, left Palmerston on 16th February, on her return voyage to Adalaide…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. (From the “ Sydney Morning Herald.”)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 1

By the arrival of the A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Lcichardt we arc enabled to give the particulars respecting the loss of the Gothenburg, gleaned from the joint…

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E Wreck of the S.S. Gothenburg. (From Australian Associated Press Telegrams.) Brisbane, March 5

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 3

The survivors from the Gothenburg, wrecked on 24th February, on the Barrier Beef, have landed at Port Denison. The names are—J. Griffith, Richard Bills, Geo. Cover, R. Brazel, J. Marks,…

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The Wreck of the Gothenburg. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 11

Putwain, the diver has recovered a box of gold containing 3500oz. from the wreck of the Gothenburg. The collector of customs claims it. BRISBANE, Saturday…

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Wreck of the Helen M‘gregor. Sydney, Friday Night

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 11

The Grafton steamer Helen M‘Gregor, bound for Sydney, was totally wrecked at Clarence Heads this evening, and several lives are reported to be lost…

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Family Readings. Uncle John’s Shipwreck

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 10 April 1875 · page 20

“Dear Uncle, I am so glad you have como; for I want to know who that curious-looking man was that you had with you when we were at your house last Wednesday week,”…

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European Telegrams. Wreck of an Atlantic Steamer. London, May 8

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 15 May 1875 · page 11

The reported arrival of the Californian mails on the 4th inst, was false. The steamship Schiller, homeward bound from New York, with the Australian and New Zealand…

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Wreck of the Californian Mail Steamer. Terrible Loss of Life

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 19 May 1875 · page 4

London, 8th May.—The steamship Schiller, homeward hound from New York, with the Australian and New Zealand, mails via San Francisco, and over 260 passengers, has been…

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Wreck of the Bernard and Isabel. (From the Kiama Independent.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 22 May 1875 · page 4

On Sunday morning last, at 9.30, the ketch Bernard and Isabel, which had been engaged in the coasting trade between Sydney and Shoalhaven for the past eighteen months, became a total wreck within the…

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Colonial Telegrams. Wreck of the S. S. Rangatira. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 11

The A.S.N. Co.’s steamer Rangatira has been lost on a reef at the entrance to the harbor at Noumea (New Caledonia). No lives were lost. The French authorities sent their steamer, but it…

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Stranding Op the Mail Steamer Ceylon

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 17 July 1875 · page 11

The outward-bound mail steamer Ceylon, which left the bay at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, had not arrived at Queenscliff at a late hour that evening, and it was consequently feared that she had got…

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