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South Coast · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1868

9 stories in South Coast's papers

Arrival of the Panama Mail Per Liakoura, Hurricane In, the West Indies. Unparralleled Disasters. Eighty-two Wrecks. ElGHT Hundred Lives Lost

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1868 · page 2

THE Sol[?]ent arrived at Aspenwall, bringing intelligence of a fearful hurricane which occurred at St. Thomas on the 29th October. The…

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Flood and Wrecks at Canter-bury New Zealand

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 February 1868 · page 3

By the barques Camille, and Anne, which arrived in port yesterday, from New Zealand, the former from Aukland, the latter from Bluff Harbour, we are put in possession of…

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Great Storm and Shipwrecks

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Wednesday 4 March 1868 · page 4

THE wet weather of Sunday, when the temperature was very high, changed early on Monday very suddenly. At about one a.m. a heavy fall of snow accompanied the rain,…

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Thu Wreck of the Bosphorus. Forty-[?] Lives [?]

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 March 1868 · page 4

The following fuller particulars of, the loss of the Bosph[?] steamer are taken from the Port Elizabeth Telegraph:-On Oct. 19 no [?] being proc[?] at Simon’s…

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Loss of the American Schooner Growler and Crew

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 4

The United States Consul at Victoria, V. L., reports the loss of the American schooner Growler, while on her. voyage from that port to…

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Shocking Shipwreck.—Forty Lives Lost

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1868 · page 3

A DESPATCH from her Majesty’s consul at Valpaoaiso, has been received at the Board of Trade, reporting the following lamentable shipwreck:—The British ship Wallase…

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Withdrawal of the Steamer Coolangatta

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1868 · page 2

THE trite saying of “the cat playing with the mouse,” until she lost it, has been truly exemplified in the withdrawal of the steam drougher Coolangatta, from the [?]yer…

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Total Wreck of the Ketch Chippewa

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 21 November 1868 · page 2

WE have received information of the total wreck of the ketch Chippewa, trading between this port and Sydney. which took place about 10 o'clock on Thursday…

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The Wreck of the Chippawo

The News, Shoalhaven and Southern Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 12 December 1868 · page 2

DURING the past week the Government pants have been endeavouring to raise the ketch Chippewa, recently wrecked off the Crookhaven Heads, but owing to the want…

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