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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1869

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Shipwreck, Robbery, and Murder in the North

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 23 October 1869 · page 2

The Margaret and Jane, schooner, arrived here yes-terday, from Somerset, Cape York, in fifty-six days, having on board the master and five of the crow of the ship Tynemouth, laden with coals from Newcastle,…

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Wreck of the Victoria Tower, Clipper Ship

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 23 October 1869 · page 2

The startling and altogether unexpected intelligence that the fine new iron clipper ship Victoria Tower, of the White Star lino, which baa been daily expected here from Liverpool, had gone ashore to the westward of…

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Original Poetry. the Wreck of the Burnett. [?]Dicatkd to the Newcastle Lifeboat Crew

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 9 November 1869 · page 4

like storied monarch of the boundless deep Rears Nobby's crest above the rippling wave. Frowning defiance seeming watch to keep Upon the broad expanse, which now will lave…

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Wreck of the Euromedha

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 9 November 1869 · page 2

Captain Scaplehorn, late muster of the abovenamed vessel, together with his crew, arrived this morning by the Adventure, whaler. She was from Ho Ho, with a cargo of 500 tons sugar, 121 packages hemp, and 71 cases…

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Exciting Scene at Boulogne. Several Bathing-machines Wrecked

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 9 November 1869 · page 4

On Tuesday morning, a very exciting, and what nearly proved to be a tragic scene, oc-curred on the sands at Boulogne. The night before, a strong gale of wind had been…

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Wrecked in Port

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 27 November 1869 · page 4

[?] Yates' new story will not add greatly his requtation. It is never dull, and it [?] along with a certain vivacity which [?] of long practice in the novelist's art,…

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Wreck of the Hyderabad at Zanzi. Bar-loss of Twenty Five Lives

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 7 December 1869 · page 2

The following letter from Mr. John Kirk, Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar, dated Zanzibar, 21st September, 1896, has been received by Mr. C.Gonna, Chief Secretary to the Government in the Political…

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The Steamer Monopoly

The Newcastle Chronicle · Tuesday 28 December 1869 · page 2

IN our last issue we hurriedly pointed out the evil effects of our local steamers entering into such a mutual arrangement that the one cannot act independently of the other,and having…

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