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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1830

10 stories in Sydney's papers

Wreck of the Schooner Liberty

The Australian · Friday 22 January 1830 · page 3

The Liberty schooner, M'Mechan master, cleared out for Newcastle and the Manning River on attempting to clear the Heads of Wednesday, about two P. M…

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Wreck of the Schooner Liberty

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1830 · page 2

We regret to announce the total wreck of the schooner Liberty, belonging to Mr. Matthew Gibbons, of Sydney, which struck on a rock at the North Head, when leaving this port for Manning…

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The Liberty Schooner

The Australian · Friday 29 January 1830 · page 3

Mr. M. Meckan, late master; Mr. Dudge, late mate; and Mr. Budge, passenger on board the Liberty schooner, requests us to to publish a contradiction of the statement contained in our…

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Loss of the Schooner Liberty. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor. Sydney, Jan. 23, 1830

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 10 February 1830 · page 3

SIR, The Sydney Gazette, under the information of Mr. M'Miggan. has reported to the public, that the schooner Liberty would have been…

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The Schooner Darling

The Australian · Friday 19 February 1830 · page 3

On Monday the Chief Justice, as Judge of the Court of Vice Admiralty, expressed his willingness to hear arguments in the prolonged case of the King v. the schooner…

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Court of Vice Admiralty. THURSDAY,—FEB. 18. The King v. The Schooner Darling

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1830 · page 2

Mr. Therry applied to the Court this morning, that the second default be pronounced against the schooner Darling The parties had been cited conformably to the directions of His Honor; no…

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Court of Vice Admiralty. Saturday, February 21. the Schooner Darling

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 4 March 1830 · page 3

Mr. FOSTER moved that the order for the amendment of the warrant obtained in the case of the King v. Darling Schooner, be discharged, on the ground that as it…

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Wreck of H.m.s. Success

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 1 April 1830 · page 3

We have been favoured with the sight of a letter from an officer of H. M. S. Crocodile, dated Hobart Town, March 21, giving the authentic particulars of…

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Select Poetry. a Land Shipwreck. (From the English Traveller,)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 June 1830 · page 4

In the height of their carousing, all their brains Warm'd with the heat of wine, discourse was offered Of ships and storms at sea; when suddenly, Out of his wild giddiness, one conceives…

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Wreck of the Lord Liverpool Packet

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1830 · page 3

WE regret to announce the almost total wreck of the Lord Liverpool on the evening of Tuesday last. She left Sydney, for Newcastle, on the…

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