Shipwreck of Prince Henry, in 1120
Many shipwrecks have been attended with far greater loss of lives, and with far more dreadful circumstances; but move can ever have produced so general an emotion…
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17 stories in Sydney's papers
SHIPWRECK. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald
GENTLEMEN,—On the 16th February, the cutter Ceylon, left the Coal River, in company "with the Admiral Gifford schooner, and Water Witch cutter; a light air from the S. E. during the day,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea. (For the Sydney Herald.)
There is an old proverb which saysâ "Misfortunes never come single." The truth of this adage has been lamentably proved to the people of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hobart Town Extacts. ([?]rom the Hobart Town Courier of Feb. 28.) Trade and Shipping. Sailed on the 26th, the schooner Jess, J. Bell master, for Sydney
On the 27th, the schooner Currency Lass, J. Briggs master, for Sydney.—Passenger, D. Eagar, Esq. We regret to learn by the Singapore Chronicle of the 24th October, received here by the brig Mars,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Extracts. Narrative of the Schooner Maria Eliza. (From the Newfoundlander of Sept. 19.)
We have been kindly supplied with the following interesting particulars relative to the Maria Eliza. The annals of the trade cannot, we believe, furnish a second instance of a vessel having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Select Poetry. the Wrecked Convict Ship. (From the Metropolitan.)
[?] drivesâshe drivesâloud the vex'd waters roar, And leap in foam tow'rds the rock-bound shore, Seeming with loud and mocking mirth to urge, Amid the madness of the boiling surge,…
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There is an old proverb which says—"Misfortunes never come single." The truth of this adage has been lamentably proved to the people of New South Wales and her dependencies. The last year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Office, Sydney, 21st July, 1834. the Ann Jamison Wreck
NOTICE is hereby given, that Tenders will be [?]ved of this Office, addressed to the First Police Magistrale.[?] Thursday the 31st inslant, nom per[?]s willing to…
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May not the Editor be pardoned indulging in a very natural feeling, by which he is powerfully affected at the inscrutable Providence of Him whose mercies he has so singularly…
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Now what are the considerations arising from a perusal of this tale of horror? what are--what must be the feelings of Mr. and Mrs. Kentish in particular? Feelings of unbounded gratitude to God for their rescue!…
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The Ship Edward Lombe from Londo n, via Hobart Town, consigned to the house of Messrs. J. B. Montefiore and Co. of Sydney, was wrecked off the middle head…
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We know not, nor are we very anxious to know, whether some of our readers may deem us gloomy for indulging in moral and suitable reflections, naturally arising out of the events of which we are the chronicler…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following full account of this melancholy Shipwreck, appears in Thursday's HERALD. Wreck of the "Edward Lombe."
We are under the painful necessity of recording a melancholy event, the first of the kind that has occurred in the harbour of Port Jackson,—the total wreck of the ship Edward Lombe, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ann Jamison Wreck Police Office, Sydney, 22d August, 1834
NOTICE is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at this office, addressed to the First Police Magistrate, until Thursday the 4th September next, from persons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Song. To the air of "Home, Sweet Home!" Said to have been sun by the fair fraii ones who arrived by the Steamer from Sydney, art nine o'clock on the night of Tuesday, the 26th of August, and who being is full spirit for a concert, en[?] in a style superior [?] Catalini's," on their war from the wharf to the [?] Factory—to [?] edification of the musical [?] of Parramatta, who were then about hastening [?]
From towns great and small, and from country we come, From all sorts of "places" we thus hasten [?] For the kind Captain graciously smiles on us there,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(COPY). On board H. M. Col. Schooner Isabella, At Sea, October 31, 1834
SIR, Having received orders and instructions to proceed with my company to the Terranka coast of New Zealand, for the purpose of recovering nine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extract From the Voyage. an Unpublished Moral Poem, by a Traveller Shipwrecked at New Zealand
New Zealanders, tho' Barbarians and Cannibals, less barbarous and cruel, and infinitely less [?]nilly, than their CIVILIZED Christian Visitors. O God! what difference 'twixt man and man,…
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