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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1846

31 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

New Steamer Mail From Panama to Collao

The Australian · Thursday 23 July 1846 · page 3

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company of London have entered into a contract, for five. yours, with, the Home Government, dated the 29th August, 1845, for the consideration…

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Massacre of Three of the Crew of the "Thomas Lord "--Wreck of the Schooner "Heroine."

The Sentinel · Thursday 13 August 1846 · page 3

THE schooner Thomas Lord, Captain Seagrove, which arrived on Thursday morning last from Copang, brings most distressing intelligence to Sydney. She sailed from this Dort on the 23rd December, 1845, in search…

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Melancholy Shipwrecks of the Ida and John Minturn.--eighty Lives Lost

The Sentinel · Thursday 20 August 1846 · page 1

THE following are the particulars of the Joss' of the two vessels, the lda,;560; tons (British 'barque): and. the John Minturn (American vessel; the wrecks of which were reported at Lloyd's on…

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Collision of a Steamer & Cutter Two Lives Lost

The Citizen · Saturday 31 October 1846 · page 2

Last Saturday night, about nine o'clock, the Thistle, steamer, on her passage from Hunter River to this port, came in contact with a small cutter called the Black Swan, by which…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. Monday Evening, November 16. MR. J. Howson's Benefit. Auber's celebrated Opera of Les Lac Des Fees, or the Fairy Lake. First time these seven years of the Wreck Ashore. By the kind permission of Colonel Bloomfield, Mr. Howson will be assisted by part of the Splendid Band of Her Majesty's 11Th Regiment

The Spectator · Saturday 14 November 1846 · page 500

Mr. J. HOWSON begs to inform his Friends and the Public generally, that his BENEFIT takes place on the above evening, when he trusts that the entertainments selected for the occasion, and his past endeavours to give satisfaction, will ensure…

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Wreck of the Schooner Heroine

The Australian · Thursday 19 November 1846 · page 2

The following letter, published in the Java Courant, gives a more detailed account of the loss of the above schooner, than has not been published in this journal:—…

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Wreck of the Schooner Heroine

The Citizen · Saturday 21 November 1846 · page 7

The following letter, published in the Java Courant, gives a more detailed account of the loss of the above schooner, than has yet been published in this journal:--…

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CERTIFICATES, &c., Continued. 1. Report of a Survey, made this 29th day of June, 1844, upon the steamer Seahorse, at anchor in Johnson's Bay, in the Harbour of Port Jackson, New South Wales. INTERNALLY

The Spectator · Saturday 12 December 1846 · page 1

Upon examination of the engine-room, I found the pipes and parts of the machinery in a broken and defective state, caused apparently by effects of violent concussion; the connecting ends of steam pipes to both engines are snapped off"; both hotwell…

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Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 December 1846 · page 2

THE Frontier Port which arrived this morning, 5th November, brings most lamentable accounts of five shipwrecks which have taken place during a violent gale from the south-east. We are happy to say that these…

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Wreck of the Barque "Mona," and Four Other Vessels

The Australian · Tuesday 15 December 1846 · page 2

We regret to state that the fine barque Mona, Capt. Sayera, which soiled from this port for the Cape of Good Hope, on the 27th July last, and arrived there on the 17th October, was…

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Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 19 December 1846 · page 343

The Frontier Post which arrived this morning, 5th November, brings most lamentable accounts of five shipwrecks which have taken place during a violent gale from the south-east. We are happy to say that these…

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