Wreck of the Water Witch. to the Editor of the Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser
The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 6 January 1840 · page 2
PORT MACQUARIE, DEC. 26.—Sir,—Perhaps before this time you may heard of the wreck of this fine little vessel, as he Fanny left yesterday, for Sydney, and was unable to…
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The Sydney Herald · Monday 13 January 1840 · page 1
The following are the particulars of the wreck, by grounding, of the barque Equitable, on Fultah point. It is taken from the report sent up by the pilot. We understand the Pilot, dispatch…
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The Australian · Tuesday 14 January 1840 · page 3
The following are the particulars of the wreck, by grounding, of the barque Equitable, of the Fultah point. It is taken from the report sent up by the pilot. we…
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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 15 January 1840 · page 2
The following are the particulars of the wreck by grounding of the barque Equitable off Fultabpoint. It is taken from the report sent up by the priot. We understand the pilot, dispatch vessel,…
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Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 1 February 1840 · page 3
We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter detailing the total loss of this fine vessel, belonging to Glasgow:--"The ship left Bombay on the 14th of April,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vessels Entered Outwards. Success, schooner, 82 tons, Catlin, for New Zealand, with goods. Agent, J. Jones
The Colonist · Saturday 8 February 1840 · page 2
THE SARAH AND ELIZABETH.-This vessel will have to go on the Patent Slip to repair damages caused by her grounding while at anchor on Thursday morning. Captain Davidson lays the whole blame…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sketches in Sydney. No. Viii. the Parramatta Steamer
Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 18 February 1840 · page 2
A sharp descent down any thing but an even road brings you to what is termed the Steam Wharf, consisting of an odd building on your left, some two or three empty drays "choking up the way," and a…
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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 25 February 1840 · page 4
On Monday morning the three masted steam schooner the Archimedes, fitted up anew for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages of the Archimedes c[?]w as a propeller, proce[?]ded down the river…
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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 16 March 1840 · page 7
On Monday morning the three masted steam-schooner Archimedes, fitted up anew for the purpose of demonstrating the advantages of the Archimedes screw as a propeller, proceeded down…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ship-wrecked Fishermen and Mariners Benevolent Society. Instituted 1839. Patroness—the Queen. President. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn, G. C. B. Vice Presidents. President for Scotland—Vice Admiral Sir D.Milne, K. C. B. President for Ireland—Vice Admiral R. D. Oliver
The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 30 March 1840 · page 6
His Grace the Duke of Grafton; the Right Hon. the Earl of Euston; the Right Hon. the Earl of Haddington; the Right Hon. the Earl of Manvers; the Right Hon. the Earl of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Original Poetry. The Steamer
The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 7 May 1840 · page 3
Vix [?]conspectu Siculæ telluris in altum Vela dabant læti, sp[?]ma[?]que salis [?]re ruebant. Triumphant over wind and tide, T[?]e subject ocean's queen and pride,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spain. By the Iberia steamer, which arrived at Fal[?] sunday. we have [?] the following [?] from our correspondent [?] Lisbon:— Lisbon, March 23
The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Tuesday 28 July 1840 · page 3
"I regret to have to [?] what, however, I have but to much reason to believe [?] the case, to allow my concealing it from you that the Portuguese Government, in reply to Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Launceston Ship News. Stranding of the barque, Ocean Queen, and total wreck of the City of Edinburgh
The Sydney Herald · Monday 10 August 1840 · page 2
Considerable excitement prevailed in town on Saturday morning last, when it became generally known that the barque Ocean Queen, Capt. Nixon, which vessel has been long and anxiously…
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Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 11 August 1840 · page 3
Considerable excitement prevailed in town on Saturday morning last, when it became generally known that the barque Ocean Queen, Captain Nixon, which vessel has been long and anxiously expected at this port, had been driven ashore at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Van Diemen's Land Stranding of the Barque Ocean Queen and Total Wreck of the City of Edin Burgh (From the Launceston Advertiser, July 30.)
The Australian · Tuesday 11 August 1840 · page 2
Considerable excitement prevailed in town on Saturday morning last, when it became generally known that the barque Ocean Queen, Captain Nixon, which vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stranding of the barque, Ocean Queen, and total wreck of the City of Edinburgh
Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 12 August 1840 · page 2
Considerable excitement prevailed in town on Saturday morning last, when it became generally known that the barque Ocean Queen, Captain Nixon, which vessel…
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The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Thursday 13 August 1840 · page 3
Mr. Donaldson, agent for Lloyd's in Sydney has received the subjoined account of the loss of the barque City of Edinburgh, in Bass' Straits Flinder's Island, Bass' Straits…
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Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 26 August 1840 · page 4
It was in the autumn of 17 -- that I left Italy, in company with my daughter, the last child of that family of brave and fair ones…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Suspected Shipwreck, and Murder by the Natives
The Colonist · Saturday 29 August 1840 · page 2
ON Sunday last, an express arrived from Encounter Bay, bringing intelligence of a vessel being wrecked on the coast to the eastward, and the crew and passengers, or some of them, having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Description of the Armed Steamer Nemesis
The Australian · Thursday 10 September 1840 · page 3
Length between perpendicular, 165 feet; beam 29 feet; depth 11 feet; tonnage (old measurement) about 660 tons; keel plates 7-16 inch thick: bottom plates [?] inch:…
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