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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1837

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

Outrage on the Coast of Africa. Capture of the schooner Vesta, of Liverpool, by the natives of Point Clara

The Sydney Herald · Monday 6 November 1837 · page 4

Intelligence has just arrived in this town of a shocking outrage that was committed at midnight, on the 28th of December last, by the natives of St. Clara, on the river Gaboon. It happens that the latter to the…

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Ardent Troughton, the Wrecked Merchant. By the Author of "Rattlin the Reefer," &c. &c. (From the Metropolitan Magazine, June, 1837.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1837 · page 4

After all my vain attempts, which I then thought I might, in some measure, attribute to the stiffness of my right arm, I grew silent and melancholy. I longed…

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Ardent Throughton, the Wrecked Merchant. From the Metropolitan Magazine, June, 1837. (Concluded from our last)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 16 November 1837 · page 4

Here was a luxurious addition to our usual fare. However, this happy etent had nearly been attended with disastrous consequences. In my haste to offer the…

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Domestic Intelligence. WRECKS

The Sydney Times · Saturday 30 December 1837 · page 2

WRECK OF THE CUTTER VULCAN. -- The following is an extract of a letter addressed to John Nicholson Esq., R. N., Harbour Master: -- "Newcastle, December 23, -- Sir, It is with the greatest feelings…

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