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Northern Rivers · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1878

6 stories in Northern Rivers's papers

To Traveller. STEAMER[?]

Northern Star · Saturday 23 March 1878 · page 4

THE Steamers "PLATYPUS" [?] and "BONNIE DUNDER" run regularly to [?] Sydney between Lismore and other Intermedia to Towns on the River thereby placing Resi[?]dents in nearly…

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Loss of the Steamer Blackbird

Northern Star · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 4

WE have just received intelligence from Melbourne to the effect that the steamer Blackbird, Captain M'Cormack, with passengers and coals, from Newcastle to…

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Wreck of the Loch Ard. Miss Carmichael's Narrative. (From the Warnambool Standard, June 8.)

Northern Star · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 4

WE areindebted to Mr. McIntrye, missionary for Heytesbury Forest, for the following particulars concerning the loss of the ill-fated ship Loch Ard:—Having just arrived from…

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Wreck of the Loch Ard

Northern Star · Saturday 29 June 1878 · page 4

THE following evidence was given at an inquest holden last week:—Thomas Pearce said he was a midshipman, lately of the ship Loch Ard. There wore 17 passengers on…

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Wreckf of the James Service

Northern Star · Saturday 17 August 1878 · page 4

ANOTHER tale of disaster comes from the sea, and, as in case of the Loch Ard, is accompanied (so far as can be ascertained at present) with sad loss of life. The wreck…

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Humour. Went Ashore

Northern Star · Saturday 30 November 1878 · page 2

"SHE'S pretty hot, sin't she?" said a backwoods passenger, addressing the engineer of a Mississippi steamer, that was racing with another boat…

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