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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1832

9 stories in Sydney's papers

The Wreck of the Rothsay Castle. (From the Atlas of August 28.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1832 · page 3

The vessel left Liverpool on the morning of Wednesday week, as was her usual course, for Beaumaris and Bangor. Her passengers were chiefly persons bent on a pleasure excursion to…

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The Rothsay Castle Steamer. Additional Particulars. [From a private letter.] (From Bell's Weekly Messenger of August 29.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 January 1832 · page 4

I left Beaumaris in the Prince Lle[?] for Liverpool. We had three of the surviving passengers of the ill-fated Rothsay Castle on board. One of them I found to be an extremely intelligent…

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To Captain Biddulph, commanding the Sophia Jane Steamer. Sydney, Jan. 30th, 1832

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 1 February 1832 · page 3

DEAR SIR We are deputed by the persons whose names are underwritten, to express their sense of the humanity shewn by you in assisting the…

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Wreck of the Madeira Packet, and Piratical Seizure of the Caledonia, by PRISONERS, at Moreton Bay

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1832 · page 2

We regret to announce the total wreck of the whaling schooner, Madeira Packet, belonging to Mr. Thomas Street, which took place at the latter end of November last, on…

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NARRATIVE Of Captain Browning, late Master of the Caledonia schooner, who was taken from Moreton Bay by pirates, on the 16th of December, 1831

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 17 May 1832 · page 2

Our readers may perhaps recollect, that in the month of December last, a schooner called the Caledonia, belonging to Messrs. Mackay and Folkard of Sydney, was taken…

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Murders on the South Seas. Copy of a Letter saved from the Meredith, wrecked at New Zealand, addressed to Messrs. Smith Brothers. British Consulate, Woahoo, Sandwich Islands,; June 1, 1832

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 20 September 1832 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—I beg leave to inform you, that Henry Carter, master of the cutter William Little, of Liverpool, was murdered by his crew in or near the Bay of St. Louis, on the coast of California,…

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Notes of a Novice. No. [?] Falconer's "Shipwreck." "Why then blow wind[?] swell billow, and swim bark!. The storm is up and all is on the hazard."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1832 · page 3

It is worth going to sea if it were only for the purpose of rightly appreciating the beauties of that admirable poem "Falconer's Shipwreck." To one who has never" gone down to the sea in ships," the…

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LOSS of the Schooner Schnapper

The Sydney Herald · Monday 24 December 1832 · page 2

We have been favoured with the following account of this melancholy affair:— On the 7th June, 1832, the schooner anchored at Wilia, one of the Hobarts. In consequence of…

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The Hapaeel Islands. Loss of the Colonial Schooner Schanapper, & Massacre of Part of Her Crew at Whyaa

The Australian · Friday 28 December 1832 · page 4

Some short mention was made of this unlucky affair in our preceding No. Since that issued from the Press, a full detail of particulars has come within our knowledge…

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