On the [?]th Instant, Drowned While Bathing
Ho! ho!- do ye tompt me so. Pale dwellers upon the land? Seem I to come for love to your home, Skirting the yellow sand?…
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Poet's Corner. the Drowned Hamlet
Up from his orient star-gemmed couch the sun revived arose, And, as beseemed a guardian true, his searching gaze bestows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Serious Accident." To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—As one of my children was entering Mr. Norrie's shop yesterdsy afternoon, she saw a man fall from an omnibus, and thinks the wheels must have passed over him. He was carried away by some men up…
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I was once [?] deeply drowned. That when the drag my body found, Twas void of motion, void of breath, And to sensation dead as death…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Loss of the St. Abb's East Indiaman.—twenty-two Persons Drowned. To the Editor of the Times
SIR,—As the father of one of the young military officers to unhappily lost in the St. Abb's, I venture to ask the i[?]tion of the following letter. It is from the only cadet saved out of the six who were passengers in this ill-fated vessel, and is addressed to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deaths by Drowning. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Searcely a week passes without [?] fatal accident being chronicted in your columns of sailors drowned at night by falling into the water whilst proceeding on board their respective ships at the different wharves of this harbour. I would, therefore, beg…
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dreadful Collision in the Channel
It is our melanchaly task to announce that a most fearful collision took place in the channel, off Filke-tone on Sunday evening, February 3, 18[?], between the Josephine W[?], Captain Canney, one of the London and New Zealand line of packet ships, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fearful Collision Off Folkestone.—loss of the New Zealand Packet Ship Josephine Willis.— Seventy Lives Lost
The Josephine Willis, of the New Zealand Line of Packets, has been wrecked off Folkestone, by coming in collision with the steamer Mangerton; upwards of seventy lives were lost. The following particulars respecting this fatal catastrophe, from the…
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IT is our melancholy task to announce that a most fearful collision took place in the channel, off Folkestone, on Sunday evening, February 3, 1856, between the Josephine Willis, Captain Canney, one of the London and New Zealand line of packet ships, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 81 →Collision at Sea and Loss of Life
At 1 a.m., on Saturday, 10th instant, as the Tuistle steamer was proceeding on her trip to Newcastle, whilst between the north and south heads of Broken Bay, she most unfortunately came into collision with the schooner Fortitude, of Sydney, Captain Fittock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision Between the Steamer Thistle and the Brigantine Fortitude.—total Loss of the Latter, with Two of Her Crew
The arrival, on Saturday afternoon, of the Os[?]roy, from Newcastle, placed us in possession of particulars relative to a collision, which occurred early on Saturday morning, between the Thistlr, steamer, and the schooner For Rude, bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Collision Hetween the Steamer Thistle and the Schooner Fortitude. Judicial Inquiry
YESTERDAY an inquiry wu held before the Steam Navigation Hoard of New South Wales, touching the circumstances attending the collision on the night of thc 9th May, between the steamer Thistle, Captain Wilson, and the schooner Fortitude, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collision Between the Steamer Thistle and the Brigantine Fortitude. -- Total Loss of the Latter, with Two of Her Crew
The arrival, on Saturday afternoon, of the Collaroy, from Newcastle, placed us in the possession of particulars relative to a collision, which occurred early on Saturday morning, between the Thistle, steamer, and the schooner Fortitude,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New South Wales Steam Navigation Board. the Late Collision Between the Steamer Thistle, and the Schooner Fortitude. (Before the Chairman. H. H. Browne, Esq., J.P., W. S. Deloltte, Esq., J.P., and B. Darley. Esq., J.P.)
An investigation was held yesterday, before the Steam Navigation Board, relative to the late collision between the steamer Thistle and the schooner Fortitude, on the morning or the 10th instant, which resulted in the loss of the latter vessel together…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Late Collision.—resumption of Thb Judicial Inquiry
YESTERDAY, at 2 o'clock, pursuant to adjournment, the Steam Navigation Board met, aud resumed the investigation into the circumstances of the late collision between the steamer Thistle and the schooner…
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IT has very seldom, if ever, been the case, that we, the loyal subjects of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, whether in England, or in any of her numerous colonies, have sought to remedy the defects…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatal Accident at the Burwood Mines— Two Men Crushed to Death
Yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, about three o'clock. Peter Baily, and Thomas Straw, two miners, in the employ of the Newcastle Coal and Copper Company, who had undertaken a contract to cut a new tunnel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Accident in the Harbour. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—It has often occurred to me that if all steam vessels plying here were to adopt the same mode as the steamers upon the Thames and other crowded waters in the United Kingdom, many fatal accidents might be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Accidents on the Liverpool Railway. One Man Killed and Several Injured,—vebdict of Manslaughter
An accident of a very painful nature occurred on Friday afternoon last, on the line of railway, near Liverpool, resulting in the death of a labourer named Daniel Murphy, and in personal injury, more or less serious, to…
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