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28 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
The day was fair, and with a fav'ring breeze, The stately bark walks proudly thro' the seas; The jovial sailors crowd the swelling sail, And the wide yards receive the southern gale…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Tuesday morning last, between two and three o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out on board the steam-packet Thetis, which is one of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We understand that several persons belonging to this place are visited Baccalieu since a notice was given in this paper of the circumstunce of an unknown vessel having been wrecked there; and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have received the following letter from a gentleman on board the Tamar, which arrived from Launceston yesterday. "GENTLEMEN—I send you with this,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We last week recorded the stranding of several vessels at Ramsay, without being able to communicate the particulars. The following are the heartrending details:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the Malchless we have the Col[?]ial Times and Tasmanian to the 21st ult. The former pan[?]r contains the account which is appended, o' the wreck of the George…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Immediately an the ariival in Hobart Town of those saved from the wreek of the George the Third, His Excellency commanded an investigation before Commisioners appointed—viz. Messrs, Montage and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday, the Committee of Enquiry (Captains Montagu, Forster, and Mo[?]arty) resumed its labours. The third Mate, Steward, and Corporal Bell of the 50th regment were examined—nothing new was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have this, week the melancholy task to detail one of the most awful and unforeseen visitations of Providence that frail an mortal man is subject to. The convict ship George the Third, of 400 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DR. Wyse, the Surgeon-Superintendent, was next examined. He deposed as follows:— The making of the land was received with much joy by all on board. The captain and officers and myself had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →By the Dublin Puchet, from Launceston which arrived on Monday afternoon, the distressing intelligence of the lass of the Female Convict ship Neva, from Cork to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The barque Nera, 337 tons, Captain B. H. Peck, left Cork on the 8th day of January last, with 150 Prisoner women, nine free women, and fifty-six children on board, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Of the many reports that have been spread, relative to the total wreck and destruction of the Enchantress, we believe the following may be relied on as correct…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Of the many reports that have been spread, relative to the total wreck and destruction of the Enchantress, we believe the following may be relied on as correct,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN,—On the 16th of May last, we secured the vessel with the tower chain to the Government Buoy," which is moored about three-quarters of a mile S S.W. of the Settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Various statements having found their way into the public papers relative to the wreck of the above unfortunate vessel, and the cause of it, I beg leave to hand you a few particulars,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This ill fated vessel arrived off Norfolk Island on the 14th of May, on the north side of that Settlement, and came round to the southern or usual landing place, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Various statement shaving found their way into the public papers relative to the wreck of above unfortunate vessel, and the cause of it, I beg leave to hand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We have to announce the loss of another ship on the Actæon Reef, at the entrance of he Derwent. This makes the third vessel that has been lost on the same Reef, within three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wo have been favored with a sight of a Letter from Hobart Town, dated August 29, to a respectable firm in Sydney; in which the following particulars of the loss…
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