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96 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
SIR,—Permit me through your columns to call the attention of the proprietors of the Parramatta steamer, to the state of their landing place at Redbank. I have observed several narrow escapes from serious…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Permit me through your columns to call the attention of the proprietors of the Parramatta steamer, to the state of their landing place at Redbank. I have observed several narrow escapes from serious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE are under great obligations for the privilege of publishing the following extracts from a letter written by a prominent and distinguished officer of the United States' Navy to his estimable wife, resident in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamship San Francisco was caught in a gale on the night of the 24th of December, and disabled. Soon after a heavy sea swept her decks, and washed overboard 240 passengers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have lately observed in your columns frequent complaints of the annoyance caused by some of our coasting steamers firing guns on their arrival in harbour, and regret to find that the proprietors of these…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The blue-book, which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852. It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long night, and dark fogs are the fit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY (January 6), a meeting of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was held at the offices, John-street, Adelphi. Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the total loss of the magnificent new iron ship Tayleur, together with 400 passengers and several of the crew, on her way from this port to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the total loss of the magnificent new. Iron ship Tayleur, together with 400 passengers, and several of the crew, on her way from this port to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS vessel left for Melbourne at 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon last, and returned to port on Saturday, about 11 a.m. The [?]ole cause of his return was the extraordinary variation of the compa[?]ses, which will be seen by an extract from the log at foot…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the total loss of the magnificent new iron ship Tayleur, together with 400 passengers and several of the crew, on her way from this port to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 79 →Wo cannot but think that there is much misapprehension abroad upon the subject of the aberration of the compass under the influence of the iron-built ships. In a letter which appears i[?] the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tayleur, a new ship or 2200 tons register was wrecked at Lambay, about 20 miles from this city, on Saturday, the 21st January. The sad disaster is attributed to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the [?] instant we published a summary, of the events that had transpired up to that period since the 20th of March, when our narrative of events was despatched by the Chusan. Our papers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DEAR SIR, — We, the undersigned, cabin, passengers of the schooner Matchless, on the termination of our voyage from San Francisco and Honolulu to this port, would adopt this method of expressing our thanks for the gentlemanly deportment and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PERHAPS after contending with a driving gale and stormy sea all day, the sky is moonless, clothed with clouds, and the night exhibits at every point the blackness of darkness to the toil-worn mariner. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Blue Book under the above title, which is annually presented to Parliament, has just been published for the year 1852. It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry sales, long nights, and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →IN order to constitute a legal wreck, goods must have come to land. In other circumstances, the law distinguished them by uncouth and barbarous appellations, handed down from the jurisprudence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Intelligence was received in town yesterday that a large American ship, the Robert Kelly, Captain Laurence, master, bound from Liverpool to New York, with 690 passengers on board, went ashore at 6 o'clock on Monday evening, at a place called Jack's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Hester, 840 tons, Captain Victor, and Doelwyck, 740 tons, Captain Zeeman, sailed from this port in company on the 4th April, bound for Batavia; on the night of the 21st April, they both struck on Kenn's Reef, about 300 miles north-east of Port…
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