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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1845

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Dreadful Shipwreck. Wreck of the Cataraqui Emigrant Ship, 800 Tons 414 Lives Lost

The Examiner · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 58

BY yesterday's overland mail from Port Phillip, we received Melbourne papers, contaning the following melancholy account of the dreadful fate of the Cataraqui:--…

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Dreadful Shipwreck. Wreck of the "Cataraqui" Emigrant Ship, 800 TONS. 414 Lives Lost

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 2

It is our melancholy duty to lay before the public n the particulars of the most awful shipwreck which has ever occurred in these colonies—the total wreck of the Emigrant ship Cataraqui, upon the iron…

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The Wrecks.—king's Island. To the Editor of the Melbourne Courier. Midge, coming up the Bay, 12th September, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 2

SIR,—I beg to enclose you a memorandum of the circumstances of the total loss of the ship Cataraqui, emigrant ship, bound from Liverpool to Port Phillip, with 370 emigrants, which…

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Appalling Accident. Wreck of the Ship Cataraqui, From Liver Pool, and Loss of Four Hundred and Fourteen, Lives. From the Melbourne Papers. Narrative of Mr. Guthrie, Chief Officer of the Cataraqui. (From the Port Phillip Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 2

THE Cataragui, Captain C. W. Finlay, sailed from Liverpool on the 20th April, with 369 emigrants, and a crew, including two doctors, Mr. C. Carpenter and Edward Carpenter (two…

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Wreck of an Emigrant Ship.— Four Hundred and Fourteen Lives Lost

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to lay before our readers an account of one of the most disastrous shipwrecks on record. The Cataraqui, from Liverpool to Melbourne,…

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Appalling Accident. Wreck of the Ship Cataraqui, From Liverpool, and Loss of Four Hundred and Fourteen Lives. From the Melbourne Papers. Narrative of Mr. Guthrie, Chief Officer of the Cataraqui

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 244

The Cataraqui, Captain C. W. Finlay, sailed from Liverpool on the 20th April, with 369 emigrants, and a crew, including two doctors, Mr. C. Carpenter and Edward Carpenter (two…

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Dreadful Shipwreck--414 Lives Lost

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 148

IT is our melancholy duty to record one of the most awful shipwrecks that has ever occurred--the total wreck of the emigrant ship Cataraqui, upon the coast of King's Island…

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Dreadful Shipwreck. 414 Lives Lost

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 3

The Port Phillip Papers, received yesterday, bring intelligence of one of the most dreadful shipwrecks it has ever fallen to the lot or the Journalist to record. The following account is condensed from a…

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Awful News. Wreck of the Emigrant Ship "Cataraqui," From Liverpool to Port Phillip. 4 14 Lives Lost!

The Australian · Saturday 27 September 1845 · page 3

THE overland mail from Melbourne, yesterday, brought us the dreadful tidings of the loss of the above vessel, upon the iron-bound coast of King's Island, at the entrance of…

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The Wreck of the Cataraqui

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 September 1845 · page 2

A CAREFUL perusal of the different accounts of the wreck of the unfortunate Cataraqui leads us to the conclusion that this awful event was caused by a gross…

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Wreck of the American Brig Falco. (To the Editor of the Auckland Times.) Table Cape, New Zealand, 27th August, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 September 1845 · page 2

MY DEAR SIR,—The gentleman who will deliver you this, is J. B. Williams, Esq, the American Consul, who came lately to Port Nicholson in the brig Falco, which has been…

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The Wreck of the Cataraqui

The Australian · Tuesday 30 September 1845 · page 3

News of the wreck of this immigrant vessel will not merely reach London, but spread through every family in Bedfordshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire, and Nottinghamshire…

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Dreadful Shipwreck. Wreck of the Cataraqui, Emigrant Ship, 800 Tons. 414 Lives Lost

The Sentinel · Wednesday 1 October 1845 · page 2

IT is our melancholy duty to lay before the public the particulars of the most awful shipwreck which has ever occurred in these colonies--the total wreck of the Emigrant ship "Cataraqui," upon the iron…

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Wreck of the American Brig Falco. (To the Editor of the Auckland Times). Table Camp, New Zealand. 27th August 1845

The Sentinel · Wednesday 1 October 1845 · page 3

MY DEAR SIR,--The gentleman who will deliver yon this, is J. B. Williams, Esq., the American Consul, who came lately to Port Nicholson in the brig Falco, which has been wrecked on these…

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Dreadful Shipwreck

The Sentinel · Wednesday 1 October 1845 · page 2

THIS week it is our painful duty to lay before our readers an account of one of the most awful shipwrecks on record. The emigrant ship Cataraqni, Captain Finlay, from Liverpool to Melbourne,…

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Wreck of the American Brig Falco. (To the Editor of the Auckland Times.) Table Cape, New Zealand, 27th August, 1845

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 252

My dear Sir,—The gentleman who will deliver you this, is J. B. Williams, Esq., the American Consul, who came lately to Port Nicholson in the brig Falco, which has been…

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Wreck of the "Cataraqui."

The Examiner · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 69

A public meeting of the citizens of Melbourne, convened by the Mayor on a requisition presented to him for that purpose; assembled at one o'clock yesterday, at the Royal Hotel, Collins- street, when the Rev. A. C. Thomson was called to the chair…

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The Literary Examiner. the Wreck of the "Cataraqui."

The Examiner · Saturday 18 October 1845 · page 84

The shore is melting in the horizon blue, While distance veils it with a pearly hue; But many a 'kerchief still is waved on high. The breeze that floats in silent mourning by…

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English Extracts. Dreadful Shipwreck of a Dutch Indiaman. (From the Times, July 18.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 November 1845 · page 2

A SHIPWRECK with more heart rending circumstances than has happened for some time was yesterday made known at Lloyd's by the arrival of the ship Chance, Captain Roxby, from Sydney, in the London Docks,…

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The "Cataraqui." "The Cataraqui, emigrant ship, was totally wrecked on King's Island, on the morning of the 4th or August, 1845, when four hundred and fourteen persons met a watery grave."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 November 1845 · page 2

T'WAS a night of stern horror—the Storm—king was shrieking— And the white frothy sea in commotion ran high: Loud roar'd the huge tempest, in thunder-tones…

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