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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1844

26 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

English Extracts. the Midshipman of the Clyde, West India Steamer, and the Governor of St. Kitt's

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1844 · page 4

IT will be seen by our Parliamentary report that Sir Charles Napier brought this case under the notice of Lord Stanley for the second time this session. The two statements…

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Original Correspondence. the Steamer "Rose."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1844 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Aware of the inutilily of making a complaint of any person connected with your establishment, yet in justice to the public, wo have to bring the following facts…

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Original Correspondence the Steamer Rose. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1844 · page 3

GENTLEMEN.—The letter in your paper of this-day, Friday 26th, (signed J. Reid and G. B. White, but without a date), I did not hear of till my return to Sydney this evening…

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Dreadful Shipwrecks and Loss of Life

The Australian · Friday 15 March 1844 · page 2

We regret to state that accounts have been received at Lloyd's, from the Cape of Good Hope, containing the most sad intelligence of a dreadful storm having occurred, on the night of the 26th…

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Total Loss of the Bristol and Dublin Steamer "Queen."

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 16 March 1844 · page 2
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

BRISTOL, MONDAY.--Information has been received here of the total loss of the above steamer, belonging to the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company. She had only been built about four years, of 500 tons…

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First Report From the Select Committee on Shipwrecks

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 18

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the shipwreck of British vessels, and the means of preserving the lives and property of shipwrecked persons, and to whom the reports…

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British Extracts. Shipwrecks

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 4
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

We regret to announce the undermentioned shipwrecks, the particulars of which have, within the last day or two, been received in the City:-- LOSS OR THE "REGULAR," INDIA TRADER.--The…

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English Extracts. First Report From the Select Committee on Shipwrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1844 · page 4

THE Select Committee appointed to inquire into the shipwreck of British vessels, and the means of preserving the lives and property of shipwrecked persons, and to whom the reports…

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More Shipwrecks

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 13 April 1844 · page 4
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

FURTHER accounts were received on Tuesday, of the dreadful havoc occasioned by the violent equinoxial gales of Friday night and Saturday morning last. In addition to the sixty wrecks reported on the books at…

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Exhibition of the Robinson Portable Lighthouse Over the Wreck of the Pegasus Steamer. (From the Berwick Warder.)

The Australian · Saturday 20 April 1844 · page 4

This remarkable invention for the preservation of human life in case of shipwreck belongs to an ingenious young chemist of London, Mr. John Robinson…

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Wreck of the Royal George

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 4 May 1844 · page 53

On Saturday, the 4th December, the divers worked for the last time in searching for guns, to which, their efforts had been exclusively devoted for more than six…

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English Extracts. Wreck of the Royal George. (From an English Paper.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 May 1844 · page 4

ON Saturday, the 4th December, the divers worked for the last time in searching for guns, to which, their efforts had been exclusively devoted for more than six…

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British Extracts Loss of an American Steamer

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 3

ON the 4th ult., the American ship " Shepherdess," from Cincinnati to Pennsylvania, about 11 o'clock at night, when within three miles of the latter city, struck a snag, just above the mouth of Cahokia Creek. The…

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British Extracts. Loss of an American Steamer

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 4

ON the 4th ult., the American ship "Shepherdess," from Cincinnati to Pennsylvania, about 11 o'clock at night, when within three miles of the latter city; struck a snag, just above the mouth of Caholcia Creek. The…

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Shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 3
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

ON Saturday night a most distressing shipwreck took place on the Goodwin Sands, in the total loss of a fine brig called the " Shepherdess," of two hundred tons burthen, Mr. Turner, master, belonging to Bideford,…

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Loss of the Schooner Isabella, of Hobart Town. (To the Editor of the Southern Australian.)

The Australian · Tuesday 27 August 1844 · page 2

SIR,—You will oblige me by inserting the account of the account of the schoonere Isabella, of Hobart Town, Tayes, master, in your widely circulated paper, extracted from the leg book of the Dorset…

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