Loss of the Thistle Steamer
THE Argus of the 29th unimo gives the following account of the loss of the above steamer, as described in a letter by one of her passengers. "Port Albert, December 24…
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Total Wreck of the Port Albert Steam Packet Company's Vessel Thistle. (From a Correspondent of the Argus.) Port Albert, South Gipps Land, December 24
THIS steamer was observed (by telescope) to be approaching the old bar at Port Albert, yesterday evening, about half-past five o'clock. It was soon observed she had ceased to make any further progress, and it was…
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A CORRESPONDENT, writing to the Argtu, gives the following additional particulars, which are published in that journal of the 3rd instant. After detailing the movements of the steamer from her departure from Melbourne, to the time of her getting ashore…
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When last mail arrived, a portion of the news telegraphed, was the arrival of the steamship Royal Charter, off the Cove of Cork, after a prosperous voyage of fifty-nine days from…
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THE fine steamer Royal Charter has been cast away on the coast of Anglesea, homeward bound, hearing about 500 souls, within a morning's sail of Liverpool. She has become a total wreck, and of those 500 only a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Monthly Commercial Summary. Per Steamer Columbian. Empire Office, Sydney, 13th January, 1860
WE again preface our monthly review with nearly the same words as we used during the past month. The month covering the close of the old year, and the opening of a fresh one is…
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THE following notice was issued in a supplement to the Government Gazette yesterday:— "As it is desirable that the Government should receive the earliest intimation of wrecks, or marine casualties, or of the…
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The vessel driveth heavily Before the raging blast, While stalwart arius strike wearily Each yielding tolt'ring mast;…
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LIVERPOOL,'THURSDAY— The report of loss of the screw stream ship Royal Charter, Captain Taylor, has proved too true. From Mr. W. A Gardener, a passenger, who left the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Notice Respecting Wrecks. Marine Casualties, and Vessel in Distress the following notice was issued in a supplement to the Government Gazette yesterday:—
"As it is desirable that the Government should receive the earliest intimation of wrecks, or marine casualties, or of the necessity for rendering assistance to vessels in distress, all masters of vessels and persons connected with her Majesty's Customs…
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THE European Times, of November 18th, says:—During the gale which prevailed on the 7th and 8th, a sad and melancholy catastrophe occurred off the port of Liverpool, by which a fine barque was completely shattered,…
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LEAVERPOOL, THURSDAY— The report of the loss of the screw steam ship Royal Charter, Captain Taylor, has proved too true. From Mr. W. A Gardener, a passenger, who left the…
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THE following account of the wreck of the steamer James Hartley, on the passage from Shanghai to Hongkong, is taken from the Overland Register of the 29th October. It was supplied to that journal by a passenger:—…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday Morning.—The Iris, schooner, which left here, towed out by the steamtug, on Wednesday evening last, immediately before the commencement of the gale, with coals for Sydney, was totally wrecked the same night at Hanna Bay, near…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday Morning.—The Iris, schooner, which left here, towed out by the steamtug, on Wednesday evening last, immediately before the commencement of the gale, with coals for Sydney, was totally wrecked the same night at Hanna Bay, near…
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SHIPS are sometimes scuttled and houses burned, to cheat the insurance offices. If this be done wholesale, will it not be done in retail? If insurance tempts sometimes to destroy, will…
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It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The bullion chest they…
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It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The bullion chest they…
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It was not till the divers succeeded in lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot where it had fallen that they came to the gold. The bullion chest they found had shared the same…
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