Wreck of the Eliza
The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 26 October 1844 · page 2
ON the morning of Sunday, the 27th May, about two o'clock, the principal keeper of Kinnird lighthouse, while on his watch in the light room, was attracted by the noise of some one knocking at the door of the house…
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The Dispatch · Saturday 2 November 1844 · page 2
LOSS OF THE BRIG "AMELIA." -- The Amelia, 200 tons, Captain M'Dougall, left Sydney for Manilla, on the 11th March last, and had favorable weather till the 27th of April last,…
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The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 9 November 1844 · page 4
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser
Within these few weeks, two new iron steamers, the Severn and Avon, fitted with the Archimedean screw, and high-pressure engines, were started in opposition to the old line of steam packets between Bristol and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sailing Directions for Entering Port Otago; Or, New Edingburgh. (From a letter of Captain Hay, of the schooner "Orotava," to Lloyd's agent, at Wellington.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 November 1844 · page 2
We left Wellington on Monday, the 5th of August, 1844. At three o'clock the pilot left us; and, as we had a fresh breeze from the north, we soon left Port Nicholson astern. On…
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The Australian · Saturday 7 December 1844 · page 2
Intelligence of the loss of this splendid steam frigate with eight other vessels was brought over a few days since by the mail packet from South America, and it has been too truly confirmed by…
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