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199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 10
During the fourteen years the Royal Mail Steampacket Company has been established it has lost eight ships, three in the Gulf of Mexico, one in the Bay of Biscay, one on the coast of Spain, and the rest in the West Indies. The value of those ships,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the passengers by this illâfated vessel, Mr Richard Henry Davis, has banded to us a Cape paper, the Argus, containing a narrative of the destruction of the ship by fire, and the saving of the lives of the whole of the passengers and crew. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I rely upon your never-failing obligeance to give publicity to the following. The French man-of-war steamer Duroc was wrecked on Mellish Reef on the 12th August last, after four days departure from New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I rely upon your never-failing obligeance to give publicity to the following. The French man-of-war steamer Duroc was wrecked on Mellish Reef on the 12th August last, after four days departure from New…
Continued on Trove, page 144 →SIR,—In returning my most sincere thanks for the immediate publicity you gave to my letter on this lameatable subject, I am happy to say that I have been informed by Mr. Baines, a member of the Northern Expedition (who was at Timor at the time) that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE French Consul, Monsieur L. F. Sentis, has politely favoured us with the loan of a file of the Moniteur, from which we have translated the following facts regarding the wreck of the above vessel, and the subsequent history of the captain and crew. That…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE French Consul, Monsieur L. F. Sentis, has politely favoured us with the loan of a file of the Monteur, from which we have translated the following facts regarding the wreck of the above vessel, and the subsequent history of the captain and crow. That…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →It could [?]ly have been expected that the terricic h[?] which visited this coast on the night of Tuesday last, and during a portion of Wednesday, would terminate without having caused serious [?] at sea. We have already heard of the loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN accordance with our practice for some yeurs past, we have prepared a variety of information on such subjects as are likely to be most interesting to the English and foreign reader, which we publish this morning expressly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Colombo on Saturday, at three o'clock, in one of the coaches [?] were engaged by the banks to convey a military force to Calt[?], and reached there at half-past six p.m. We went next morning, the 7th, to the scene of the wreck,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following is the report of a sub-committee, consisting of the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., president of the Royal National Life-boat Institution; Admiral Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B.; Captain Washington, R N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the whole of Monday and yesterday this port was visited by one of the severest easterly gales remembered for some years past, accompanied with heavy and incessant rains. Casualties along the coast were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE months of December and January last will long be remembered for their melancholy catalogue of wreeks, which strewed nearly every part of our sea-girt isle. Whilst, however, many a noble-hearted sailor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Canadian sailed for Quebec, with about 250 passengers, 20th May, 1857. The following account of her disaster in the St. Lawrance is contained in a letter from B. G. to E. Owen Greening, 81, Oxford-road, Munchester:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Canadian sailed for Queb[?], with about 250 passengers. 20th May, 1857. The following account of her disaster in the St. Lawrence is contained in a letter from B. G. to E. Owen Greening, 81, Oxford-road,Manchester:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning our city was thrown into the deepest gloom, by intelligence being received that a vessel had been wrecked at the Heads, by which serious loss of life had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY was, yesterday, thrown into a state of great anxiety and alarm, by the report that, during the previous night, a large ship, with a considerable number of passengers, had been wrecked outside the South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE hopes we entertained last night that the wreck would not be the Dunbar, have proved fallacious. That unfortunate vessel must have struck between the Gap and the Lighthouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE publish from a Supplement to the "Empire" (of last night,) the disastrous confirmation of our fears as to the loss of this ship:— The melancholy wreck at the Heads with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A steamer will leave the Circular Quay, at 9 a.m. to convey the Inspector-General of Police, the Coroner, and shells to put the bodies of the deceased passengers of the…
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