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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

9 stories in South Coast's papers

Arrival of the English Mail Steamer Somerset Via Torres Straits. Brisbane

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1875 · page 3

THE Torres Straits Steamer Somerset left Singapore on the 15th December, and Batavia on the 18th. She passed the Legislator on the 23rd, and the Flintshire on the 27th. She left…

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Fearful Gales Floods & WRECKS. Wrect of the Gothenburgh (s), 116 souls believed to have perished. Stranding of the Mail Steamer Nor manby. The Floods in the Hunter District. Dreadful Destitution at Maitland

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 2

THE Evening News of Wednesday says:— Although we were prepared for for disastrous reports in consequence of the late bad weather those to hand far exceed our expectation. The…

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The Wreck of the Steamer Gothenberg

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 2

FURTHER particulars of the wreck of the unfortunate; steamer, Gothenberg, A telegram from Brisbane-dated Saturday .the 6th instant, says: The Bunyip (s), picked up two men from the…

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Reported Wreck of the Steamer Blackbird

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 3

A TELEGRAM was received yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Scott wife of tho chief officer of the Blackbird (s.) as follows .—“Grafton, Sunday 14th March. Arrived in Grafton safe ; ship…

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Wreck of the Helen Macgregor. Grafton

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 17 March 1875 · page 3

A TELEGRAM to the S. M. Herald, says :—The steamship Helen Macgregor, of 300 tons, commanded by Captain Turner, and which loft Sydney on Monday, 8th instant hound for…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer Cyphrenes

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 20 March 1875 · page 2

THE Mail stoamer Cyphrenes brings American newspaper to the 7th February, Wu extract the following from our files :— The Cyphrenes reached San Francisco, on the…

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Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1875 · page 4

CAPTAIN M’KINNON, of the Liverpool ship Horss, from San Francisco, [?] Queenstown reports that on October 8th, at 10 p.m., in passing in the vicinity of [?]eno in latitude…

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Wreck of the Bernard and Isabel

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 12 May 1875 · page 2

ON Sunday morning last at 9.30, the ketch Bernard and Isabel, which had been engaged in the coasting trade between Sydney and Shoalhaven for the post eighteen months, became a…

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Total Loss of the Steamer Rangatira

The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek, Ulladulla and South Coast Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 3

THE Australian Steam Navigation Company, by their efforts to open up and encourage direct communication with Fiji, have sustained the loss of one of their finest screw steamers, the…

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