Explosion of the Steamer Pennsylvania—two Hundred Lives Lost
Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 13 October 1858 · page 3
In the midst of the disasters and excitement which, by reason of the great flood, prevails in our city and the surrounding country, there came yesterday evening a most stunning shock of news…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 October 1858 · page 4
WHEN a passenger ship is burned off Holyhead, or run down at the entrance of the Thames, with great loss of life, the public takes a dep and passionate interest in the terrible casualities to which those are liable who go down to the deepwaters; but the frequent…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1858 · page 4
WE have been favoured by Mr. E. M. Sayers with an extract from a letter [?] yesterday from Captain Morrison of the Monarch, barque, detailing the particulars of the unfortunate wreck, by which it will be [?] that through the praiseworthy promptitude…
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The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 8 November 1858 · page 215
WE have been favoured by Mr. E. M Sayers with an extract from a letter received yesterday from Captain Morrison of the Monarch, barque, detailing the particulars of this unfortunate wreck, by which it will be teen that through the praiseworthy promptitute…
Continued on Trove, page 215 →Manly Steamer.—the Early Boat. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1858 · page 4
SIR,—I would suggest to the spirited owner of the Manly proporty the expedleney of allowing the early boat (7 h, 10 m.) to call at the Woolloomooloo Wharf, as I am convinced the majority of those who would patronise the early excursion reside in…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 December 1858 · page 4
IT is known that the barque Timandra, with a large number of lives on board ([?]), was lost on a sand-spit off Keppel Bay. The ship was in imminent danger, both from the accident that had occurred to her and from the risk attendant on any attempt to…
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The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 13 December 1858 · page 235
It is known that the barque Timandrs, with a large number of lives on board (1 5), was lost on a sand-spit off Koppel Buy. The ship was in imminent danger, both from the accident that had occurred to her and from the risk attendant on any attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 235 →Loss of the Steamer Austria. (From the Times, October 12th.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 December 1858 · page 3
ONE of those terrific catastrophes which still occasionally illustrate the perils of the deep has just burst upon tne world with an aspect of extraordinary horror. A noble vessel, charged with a living freight of more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wreck of the Warlock. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 December 1858 · page 4
SIR,—Many reports being in circulation in connection with the loss of the warlock, I beg you will kindly give "Insertion to the following particulars respecting the some:- The Warlock sailed from Watson's Bay on Friday, 8th instant,…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1858 · page 3
A SINGLE glance at the history of shipwrecks which we publish this morning will convince even the most indifferent of the terrible importance of the subject. A thousand vessels and more put annually in peril,…
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