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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1850

43 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 3

The Wreck of Anglicanism

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 December 1850 · page 6

No one can deny that the State Church it fairly aground. The rafters hung very loose together before it met with the Gorham Charybdis, in the Mediterranean of British…

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Wreck of the Adario. Copy of Log of the barque Adario, from San Francisco towards Sydney. October. 1850

The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Saturday 28 December 1850 · page 341

Saturday, 19.—Fresh breezes and fine weather. At 9.30 A.M., saw the land S.S.W. nine or tea leagues. Ends with same weather, steering west along the land; distance off shore about two miles…

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Wreck of the "Adario." Copy of the log of the barque Adario, from San Francisco towards Sydney, October, 1850

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 28 December 1850 · page 6

Saturday, 19. -- Fresh breezes and fine weather. At 9.30 a. m., saw the land S.S.W. nine or ten leagues. Ends with same weather, steering west along the land; distance off shore about two miles. Saturday, 20. -- Fresh breezes and fine weather. At 0 30 p.m.,…

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