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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1860

9 stories in Riverina's papers

The Wreck of the Royal Charter

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 4

The Royal Charter, auxiliary steam-ship, forming one of the Eagle line of Packets between Melbourne and Liverpool, arrived at Queenstown on the 24th of…

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ADELAIDE, Monday Morning, 10 a.m. By Electric Telegraph. From our own Correspondent. European Intelligence to November 18. Total Wreck of the Royal Charter. 400 Lives lost and half a million of Treasure. Apprehended War with France, Enrolment of 30,000 Naval Volunteers

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 13 January 1860 · page 4

The Salsette, bearing the Overland Mails, arrived at Nepean Bay on Friday evening. She was detained at Suez until the, 29th of November, waiting the…

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Wreck of the Royal Charter Latest Particulars

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 20 January 1860 · page 3

THE following narrative of this awful catastrophe is from the pen of the Times' special reporter. It bears date 28th October, 1859…

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Wreck of the Steamer James Hartley

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 3 February 1860 · page 2

The following account of the wreck of the steamer James Hartley, ou the passage from Shanghai to Hongkong, is taken from the Overland Register of the 29th…

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"ADELAIDE" By Electric Telegraph English News to the 28th of December. Resignation of Lord Pal merston. Revolution in Hungary. Proposed purchase of Venice. Extinctincs of the Pope's Jurisdiction. Recovery of £300,000 from the Royal Charter's Wreek. Wreck of the Blende Castle, 50 lives lost

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 10 February 1860 · page 4

The Northam, with European Mails, arrived at Kangaroo Island, on Sunday the 5th instant. The principal items of news we give…

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Recovery of the Gold by Divers From the Wreck of the "Royal Charter."

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 17 February 1860 · page 3

It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot-where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The…

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Wreck of the Mai[?] Steamer [?]Ian

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 24 February 1860 · page 3

The Royal mail Screw steamer Indian, Captain Smith, composing one of the line of the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company, which sailed from Liverpool on the…

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Miscellaneous. Appalling Shipwreck. Eight Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 30 March 1860 · page 3

The details of the dreadful loss of the clipper ship Flora Temple, Captain Johnson, master, from Macao for Havannah, to which we briefly alluded a few days…

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Arrival of the English Mail Steamer Malta. English News to March 26. Important European Intelligence

The Adelong Mining Journal and Tumut Express · Friday 11 May 1860 · page 4

The Mail Steamer Malta arrived at Nepean Bay on Friday last. The dates she brings are from England to March the 26th. Her news is of the most important…

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