EXTRACTS. Wreckers
The Island of Sunda is one of the worst situated for navigation, and the best for wreckers, of any among the Orkneys, and the story goes, that a worthy minister of that dangerous isle—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipwrecks & the sea, 1849
27 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
Loss of the Brig Mary, of Liverpool. (From the Nautical Magazine.) Extract of a letter from H.M. Schooner Bramble. By Lieut. Commander C. [?] Y[?]
AT 5h. 30m. P.M., [?]ked off Double Island I oint, and whils[?] standing out our masthead man observed a boat making for the land. Having no doubt the crew were in distress, I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Cutter Ellen.— Four Lives Lost
WE regret to announce the loss of this vessel between the Heads, on Friday night last. She was bound for Brisbane Water, and on the southerly wind coming an, about eight o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Ship Canton, and Loss of Twenty Lives
By the Rosetta Joseph we regret to say intelligence has been received of the total wreck of the ship Clinton, 507 tons, Captain David Friend, and the loss of twenty lives. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Cutter Ellen.—four Lives Lost
We regret to announce the loss of this vessel between the Heads, on Friday night sen'night. She was bound for Brisbane Water, and on the southerly wind coming on, about eight o'clock,…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Wreck of the Ship Canton, and Loss of Twenty Lives
By the Rosetta Joseph we regret to say intelligence has been received of the total wreck of the ship Canton, 507 tons, Captain David Friend, and the loss of twenty lives. The…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Wreck of the Barque Princess Royal. (From the Melbourne News, February 26.)
THE barque Princess Royal, Captain Sinclair, from Hongkong, for this port, struck at three o'clock on Saturday morning, on Lonsdale Reef, outside the Heads, and became a total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Barque Princess Royal
THE barque Princess Royal, Captain Sinclair, from Hongkong, for this port, struck at three o'clock on Saturday morning. February 24th, on Lonsdale Reef, outside the Heads, and became a…
Continued on Trove, page 65 →Wreck of the Brig Scamander, and Loss of Seventeen Lives
By the Marian Watson, from the Isle of Pines, intelligence has been received of the wreck of the brig Scamander, 192 tons, Captain Rule, from Sydney the 27th January (bound for the Isle of Pines on a sandal-wood…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wreck of the Brig Scamander, and Loss of Seventeen Lives
By the Marian Watson, from the Isis of Pines, Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the brig [?] 192 tons, Captain Rule, from Sydney the 27th January (hound for the Isle of Pines on a sandal-wood…
Continued on Trove, page 75 →St. Paul's Shipwreck
THE ship has now reached the shore, but before relating the escape of the passengers and crew I shall endeavour to give the reader some idea of what must have been their privations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Occurrence on Board an Irish Steamer
A DREADFUL loss of life happened on board the steamer Londonderry, on her voyage from Sligo to Liverpool, last Saturday, (December 2). The stories given by the Irish papers were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dreadful Occurrence on Board an Irish Steamer
The steamer Londonderry, Captain Johnston, one of the vessels belonging to the Northwest of Ireland Steampacket Company, and at present plying between Sligo and Liverpool, left Sligo at four o'clock on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Loss of the Schooner Minerva
WE regret to announce the total loss of the schooner Minerva, 110 tons, Captain Hovendon, by fire, at sea, on the 27th March. The vessel was the property of the Captain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loss of the Schooner Minerva
We regret to announce the total loss of the schooner Minerva, 110 tons, Captain Hovendon, by fire, at sea, on the 27th March. The vessel was the property of the captain, and…
Continued on Trove, page 94 →Shipwrecks and Melancholy Loss of Life. (From the Moreton Bay Courier, May 26.)
WE have a painful duty to perform in this day's issue, in recording a series of casualties en the coast during the late gales, by which it is estimated that about twenty-two of our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipwrecks and Melancholy Loss of Life
We have a painful duty to perform in this day's issue, in recording a series of casualties on the coast during the late gales, by which it is estimated that about twenty-two of our…
Continued on Trove, page 158 →Dreadful Wreck Oe an Emigrant Ship. Nearly 200 Lives Lost
With the deepest regret we have to record one of the most frightful catastrophes that probably ever occurred on this part of the English coast, viz., the total loss of a large emigrant ship, on the Long Sands, with nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →