Wreck of the St. Paul and Massacre of Her Passengers
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 January 1859 · page 5
THIS ill-fated vessel left Hongkong for Sydney, witn 327 Chinese passengers, and on the night of 30th September waa totally wrecked on the Island of Rossel. Captain Pennard, her commander, and eight of his…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 January 1859 · page 3
This ill-fated vessel loft Hongkong for Sydney, with 327 Chinese passengers, and on the night of 30th September was totally wrecked on the Island of Rossel. Captain Pennard, her commander, and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 February 1859 · page 4
The following particulars of the loss of this pretty little vessel, belonging to this port, and owned by Messrs R. Towns and Co., have been handed to us by Mr. Alexander Stuart. She is only partially insured…
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The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 14 February 1859 · page 28
The following particulars of the loss of this pretty little vessel, belonging to this port, and owned by Messrs. R. Towns and Co., have been handed to us by Mr. Alexander Stuart. She is only partially insured…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Winans Ocean Steamer. (From the Illustrated London News, November 27.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1859 · page 5
THIS singular vessel was launched on the 6th October, near the Ferry Bay, at Baltimore. The Messrs. Winans of that city, the designers and constructors of this novelty in marine architecture, have supplied us with the following information in regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Schooner Martha. Singapore, March 1st, 1859. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1859 · page 4
SIR.—It may be of service to the maritime portion of the community who avail themselves with the use of your valuable journal, to be aware of a danger that may not be generally known, and nearly in the track of vessels from the South bou[?]d to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Eliza Goddard. To the Editor of the Argus
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 June 1859 · page 4
SIR,—I hope yon will insert the following remarks in your valuable journal relative to an ocourrence which took place on Sunday last, the 21st instant, within a few miles from here, to the ill-fated vessel Eliza Goddard, and the praiseworthy exertions rendered,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Royal National Life-boat Insitution. (From the Daily News, March 8)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 June 1859 · page 3
THE annual general meeting of this institution was hels at the London Tavern, Sir John S. Pakington, Bart, M.P., Frist Lord of the Admiralty, in the chair. The meeting was influentially and most numerously attended, and amongst others there were present…
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Empire · Thursday 23 June 1859 · page 4
Messrs. Brown, Atkinson, and Co., of Hall, received Intelli-gence of the loss of their fine first-class barque Lord Mulgrave, and five lives, off Stromness, on the 9th March. The following, in the mate's statement:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roasting a Man to Death on Board the Bogota Steamer. (From the Liverpool Mait, April 2.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 June 1859 · page 2
AT the South Lancashire Assizes, on Friday, before Mr. Justice Willis, Archibald Mitchell, second engineer of the steamship Bogota, belonging to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, was indicted for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Awful Shipwreck on the Irish Coast. Four Hundred Lives Lost. (From the Illustrated News, May 7.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 July 1859 · page 4
THE "Terrific Register" would hardly supply the details of a worse catastrophe than that of the wreck or the emigrant ship Pomona, on the Irish coast, at the close of last week. A new ship of fifteen hundred tons, with a freight of more than four hundred…
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Empire · Tuesday 12 July 1859 · page 2
AN emigrant ship was totally wrecked a abort time age on the Irish coast. The following narrative of the cat[?]trophe is extracted from an article in the Morning Post:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monthly Commercial Report. for the Mail Steamer "Northam." Sydney, 13th July, 1859
Empire · Wednesday 13 July 1859 · page 5
THE dullness we commented on in our last month report per mail steamer Benares, has been continue since, indeed we have seldom had to record so stagnant a state of Trade, which we still attrib[?]te to the same…
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Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 16 July 1859 · page 3
The splendid clipper ship Pomona, 1,500 tons burden, New York, left Liverpool on Wednesday, the 27th [?] with a crew of thirty-six sailors, in addition to the [?]tain, Charles Merrew, and with passengers for New…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 July 1859 · page 4
News arrived in Wellington by the steamer Boomerang that the well known brigantine Marchioness, Captain Kreeft, had gone ashore in Cook's Straits. She was bound for this port with a valuable cargo, consigned to Messrs. Miles, Kington, and Co…
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Empire · Monday 18 July 1859 · page 3
THE following detailed account of the wreck of the Emigrant ship Pomona, and the dreadful loss of life on that occasion, will be read with painful interest. Although we have before given a tolerably full report, of this…
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The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List · Monday 25 July 1859 · page 119
News arrived in Wellington by the steamer Boomerang that the well known brigantine Marchioness, Captain Kre[?] had gone ashore in Cook's Straits. She was bound for this port with a valuable cargo, consigned to Messrs. Miles, Kington, and Co…
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Empire · Tuesday 26 July 1859 · page 4
FROM the Cape Monitor of June 4th, we take the following account of a disastrous shipwreck, which had occurred at Port Elizabeth:- On Sunday afternoon the keeper of the Rece[?]fe Lighthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The European Difficulty and Its Effect Upon America. (From the San Francisco Steamer Bulletin, May 5.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 July 1859 · page 3
THE latest advices from Europe do not throw much light upon the quarrel between Franco and Austria, or enable us to speculate with anything like certainty upon the manner in which it is to terminate. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Navigation of the Murrumbidgee. (From the Wagga Wagga Empress.) the Steamer Albury
Empire · Monday 8 August 1859 · page 3
WE stated last weak that, from information we had received, we did not think it probable that the steamer would come up to Wagga Wagga this trip, and the following letter which we received on Thursday evening is…
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