Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Shipwrecks & the sea, all years

Riverina · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1866

7 stories in Riverina's papers

Items by the Mail. the Wreck of the Duncan Dunbar

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1866 · page 4

THE Times correspondent writing from South-hampton on Saturday morning, November 4, says:—The passengers and crew of the Duncan Dunbar have reached this port on board…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Later English News. Per Queensland Government Mail Steamer Souchays. [Via Torres Straits.] February, 26

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1866 · page 4

THE mail steamer Souchays, Captain Blick, arrived at the bar at 5.30 p.m. from Batavia, bringing English news to January 16. She made the passage hence to Koepang in 21…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Telegraphic. Arrival of the English Mail. Sydney, Thursday, March 15. The English Mail has arrived at Adelaide. Wreck of the London, steamer. Appalling Loss of Life

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 17 March 1866 · page 2

The English Mail has arrived at Aldelaide. Wreck of London, steamer. Appalling Loss of Life. Two Hundred and twenty persons drowned,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Arrival of the English Mail. Wreck of the steamer London, and great loss of life. Death of Dr. Woolley, G. V. Brooke, and others. The New Reform Bill. Terrific Gales Loss of Four Thousand Vessels Projected Tunnel Threatened rupture between Russia and Prussia. SYDNEY, Thursday, 2 p.m

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 19 March 1866 · page 2

THE branch Mail Steamer arrived at Adelaide early this morning. The "Bombay" arrived at King George's Sound on Sunday with the January mails…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wreck of the London

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 31 March 1866 · page 2

"Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known." Psalm 77th, 19th Verse. Thy way is in the sea,…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Select Poetry. the Wreck of the London

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 24 May 1866 · page 4

STRONG and beautiful, fleetly borne, Like a sea-bird from our shore, The London sped, with her white wings spread O'er the happy hearts she bore…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wrecks at Newcastle, with Loss of Life

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Thursday 19 July 1866 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Thursday, 4 p.m.—Shortly after 1 o'clock to-day a steamer, supposed to be the Cawarra from her peculiar bows and poop, was signalled to t[?] northward. At this time a…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →