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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1835

28 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

Another Ship Wreck

The Colonist · Thursday 10 September 1835 · page 3

IT is our painful duty to record another sacrifice of property, to the obstinancy, of our rulers in refusing to establish outside pilots. On Tuesday last, at 10 o'clock of the day, in fine weather,…

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Law of Shipwreck. "A wreck, a wreck! resounds along the strnnd, And man becomes a tiger for the prey."—Byron

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 27 October 1835 · page 2

By the Act of the 3d Edward, 1st cap 4th of the same King, and cap. 2, it is enacted, that if a man, a dog, or a cat escape alive out of any ship, such ship…

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Wreck of the Schooner Friendship at Norfolk Island

The Colonist · Thursday 10 December 1835 · page 4

SOME time since, we gave an account of the loss of the above-named vessel; by which it appeared that the prisoners behaved in a most. praiseworthy manner, rendering every…

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Another Shipwreck

The Sydney Herald · Monday 14 December 1835 · page 3

Despatches were received at the Brigade Office, early yesterday morning, from the Governor, at Parramatta, containing intelligence that the ship Hive, Captain…

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Wreck of the Hive

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 16 December 1835 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE reached Sydney on Sunday morning, that the ship Hive, Captain Luscombe, from Dublin, with male prisoners, was on shore to the southward of…

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English Extracts. Blowing Up of the Earl Grey Steamer

The Colonist · Thursday 17 December 1835 · page 5

ON Friday evening, July 24, a few minutes before 6 o'clock, a dreadful accident took place, occasioned by the bursting of the boiler of the Earl Grey steamer, while she was lying at the Steam-boat-quay,…

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Wreck of the Hive

The Colonist · Thursday 17 December 1835 · page 4

INTELLIGENCE was received in Sydney on Sunday morning that the ship Hive, Captain Luscombe, with male prisoners from Ireland, was on shore at Jervis' Bay. Dispatches were at the…

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Domestic and Miscellaneous Intelligence Shipwreck of the Hive

The Australian · Friday 18 December 1835 · page 2

By the Tamar, which left the above vessel on Wednesday, we hoar that there is every reason to expect that she will be ultimately got off and saved, though at present…

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