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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1827

4 stories in Sydney's papers

Shipwreck. From the Journal Des Debat[?]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1827 · page 4

The Ph[?] of [?] contains the following details, which cannot be perused without creating a lively interest:---A ship called "La Mereaux [?]uit E[?]fans, sailed from Cape [?] for Havre, on the morning…

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[?]etrp. Wreck of the Comet. (From Blackwood's Magazine for September.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 March 1827 · page 4

[The melancholy t[?]le of Captain and Mrs.Sutherland forms too premi[?] a feature in the events of the fa[?]l night of the wre[?]k of the Comet, not to impress itself deeply upon the attention of any person…

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The Wreck of the Nassau

The Australian · Wednesday 13 June 1827 · page 3

We have been favored with the following particular and interesting account of the loss of the brig Nassau, which left Sydney the 9th of June 1825, on the island of Tristan d'Acunha; it has been drawn up by a passenger on board of…

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Wreck

The Australian · Friday 14 December 1827 · page 3

Some particulars have been furnished us of the wreck of the schooner Olivia, belonging to Mr. James Lucas. She was bound from Launceston to Sydney, and was laden with wheat, coffee, and potatoes. Her…

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