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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

5 stories in New England's papers

Burning of a Mail Steamer and Loss of 400 Lives

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1875 · page 4

EARLY on the morning of the 19th December, the community was startled by the intelligence that the magnificent steamer Japan, belonging to the Pacific Mail Company, had been…

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Wreck of the Steamer Helen M'gregor

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 2

THROUGH the courtesy of the proprietors of The Grafton Argus, Messrs. Page, Ave are Enabled to furnish our readers with a few particulars (received by telegram from Grafton…

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Total Destruction of the Jason Schooner by Fire at Maryborough

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1875 · page 3

A correspondent of the 4 'Gympie Times' of the 12th instant, writes as follows:—The Jason, as you are perhaps aware, arrived a short time back from the South…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail Steamer, at Adelaide

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1875 · page 4

THE following are extracts from telegrams in Saturday's Herald':—Adelaide, Friday. The mail steamer Golconda was sighted…

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Terrible Shipwreck

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1875 · page 7

WE have news from Madeira that the ship ' Stuart Hahnemann,' of Liverpool, capsized and sank 10 days from Bombay. Of those on board the following were…

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