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17 stories in Sydney's papers
SIR—I observe a paragraph in your paper on the 19th instant, calculated to injure me and the above steamer. Now, I will give you the whole particulars, if you will kindly insert them in your…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The first idea of those who hear of an iron ship is, probably, of something amazingly strong, but bo heavy as to be kept afloat with difficulty, and liable to go down "like a stone." as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS elegant vessel has arrived safe in port after a very lengthy passage. She is considerably larger than the Seahorse, and originally belonged to the St. George Steam…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL night the booming minute gun l[?]nd peal'd along the deep And m[?]urnfully the rising sun Look'd o'er the tideworn steep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE understand that it is the intention of the owners of this fine vessel to despatch her forthwith to China, unless sufficient encouragement offer in the way…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY forenoon, by the assistance of Mr. Dawson's cutter, the wreck was not only removed considerably farther up Farm Cove, but also brought much [?]earer the western side…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday se'nnight, between eight and nine o'clock, Southend was visited by a most tremendous strom of wind and rain, the severity of which has not been equalled for many years, and its effects…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our readers (says The Glasgow Chronicle, of March 21,) are aware that a fine fast sailing steamer, named the Telegraph, was lately built for the river trade, for the purpose of competing with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE readers of the Courier are aware that a fine fast-sailing steamer, named the Telegraph, was lately built for the river trade for the purpose of competing with the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Spanish brig Nuevo Belbaino, Captain Jose Alaejos, when passing through Torres Straits, on her way from Sydney to Singapore, rescued six English sailors from one of Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →POSTSCRIPT.—We stop the press to announce the melancholy intelligence of the loss of the Waterloo, on Sunday, the 29th of August, at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. By this fearful event…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have to record the most awful scene which the inhabitants of this town ever witnessed—the stranding in Table Bay of two ships, the one the Abercrombie Robinson, with troops for Algoa Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have to record the most awful scene which the inhabitants of this town ever witnessed—the stranding in Table Bay of two ships, the one the Aberrombie Robinson, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In reference to the disastrous shipwrecks mentioned in our last, the South Africans says:— The rottenness of the Waterloo's timbers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EXTRACT from the Isabella's letter, left on Booby Island, dated August 21st, 1842:— Sailed from Sydney July 27th.—Saw the Clifford on a reef, Sir Charles Hardy's west…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Extract from the Isabella's letter, left on Booby Island, dated August 21st, 1842:— "Sailed from Sydney July 27th. Saw the Clifford on a reef, Sir Charles Hardy's west Island, N. and by E ½ E.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The loss of this vessel on her passage to Moulmain, our readers will remember, has already been announced on the authority of letters found by the John Brewer and the…
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