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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1826

3 stories in Sydney's papers

Dreadful Shipwreck of the Ogle Castle East-indiaman

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1826 · page 4

At day-break on Thursday morning, Nov. 3, a large ship, with a poop and figure head, painted yellow sides and ports, was observed under the topsails, standing towards the south sand head…

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The Shipwreck

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1826 · page 3

During the months of February and March, in the year 18 —, the coast of Kent was visited by a succession of violent storms, which caused a greater quantity of damage to the shipping and…

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Most Dreadeul Shipwreck. [From the Mirror, March 25th, 1826.]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1826 · page 3

THE [?] of shipwrecks, fertile an they are in heartrendi[?] narratives in all she vari[?] ties of [?] and sufferings searcely present an inst[?] of a en[?]mity of the sort more melnncholy, and at the same [?] more [?] than [?]…

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