Attempt to Fire Sheerness Dock-yard
Her Majesty's ship Camperdown, 120 puns, was attempted to be fired in the basin, last evening, by same incendiary. The ffire was first discovered in the midshipman's…
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English News. Calamitous Fire at Devonport. Devonport, Sunday, September 27
The Dockyard at Devonport is on fire. Her Majesty's ships Talavera (72) and Immnogene (26), being in dock, are totally destroyed: the Minden's (72) bows much burnt, but the ship…
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At the moment wheal the stale of the British navy is a matter of the gretest moment to all an unlooked-for circumstances has served to weaken in the most unfortunate manner the national resources of the country…
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THE following account of the fire at Devonport is cut down from a Devonport paper, published a day or two after the occurrence. There appears little doubt, that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extracts. Attempt To-fire Sueerness [?] Attempt to Fire Sheerness Dock-yard
An attempt was made on Friday evening by some incendiary to fire R.M.S Camperdown, of 102 guns, lying in the basin at Sheerness Dock-yard. The fire was first discovered in the Midshipmen's berth, but was extinguished…
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The morning about one o'clock the premises of Messrs. Hughes & Hosking, situate near the Market Wharf. was discovered to he on fire. The alarm spread rapidly through the town, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Herald, with Which Is Incorporated the Colo[?]st. Wednesday, March 3, 1841. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Calamitous Fire!
ABOUT one o'clock this Morning, a fire broke out in the bake-house at the stores of Mr. J. T. Hughes, in Sussex-street, known ns the Albion Flour-Mills, and before two o'clock…
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The most destructive and extensive fire that ever occurred in this colony happened on Tuesday night, or rather on Wednesday morning, in the large stores of Messrs. Hughes and Hosking, and the adjoining…
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It is with feelings of poignant sorrow that we have to record, in this day's publication, the particulars of the total destruction, by fire, of the whole of that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Domestic Intelligence. Awful and destructive Fire at the Albion Mills
One of the most serious and destructive fires that ever occurred in New South Wales took place yesterday morning at the Albion Mills, the property of Messrs. Hughes and Hosking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Herald. with Which Is Incorporated the Colonist. Thursday, March 4, 1841. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Tremendous Destruction of Property by Fire
ABOUT one o'Clock this morning, the bakehouse attached to Messrs. Hughes and Hosking's premises, in Sussex-st., caught fire from the flues of the ovens. It was…
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As we were unable to get in the account [?]ate "fire" in sufficient time for the papers sent to our subscribers in the interior, we now insert the following rather lengthy account from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Herald. with Which Is Incorporated the Colonist. Friday, March 5, 1841. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Late Fire
WHEN Messrs. Hughes and Hosking estimated their loss at £25,000 they did not include the value of the buildings, which alone are estimated at £40,000. In…
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FURTHER PARTICULARS.—From various sources we learn that the report given in Thursday's "Australian" of this dreadful catastrophe, of the origin of the fire, and subsequent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Herald, with Which Is Incorporated the Colonist. Tuesday, March 9, 1841. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Insurances Against Fire
WE lately adverted, in a brief manner, to the important subject of providing for families or individuals, by a policy of assurance upon the life of an interested…
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FURTHER PARTICULARS. — From various sources we learn that the report given in Thursday's Australian of this dreadful catastrophe, of the origin of the fire, and subsequent particulars,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. the Late Fire. To the Editor of The Australia
Sir,—On the subject of our colonial Fire Engines—what a farce it is to employ such futile things in arresting the progress of a great fire; of what use I ask were they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extensive and Calamitous Fire at Dublin. [From the Dublin Evening Mail, Jan. 4.]
On Saturday morning a most calamitous and destructive fire occurred at the extensive promise of Mr John S. Folde. The entire of his splendid printing-office with its valuable stock of type. Is burned to the ground…
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Our readers will not have forgotten the specimens we lately laid before them of the sayings of Mr. Samuel Slick of Slickville. While the tone of Mr. Slick's remarks on the Nova Sectians is…
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