Wrecks in 1865
A RETURN issued by the Board of Trade records 1656 wrecks and casualties as having octurred in 1865 on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The number in 1864 was 1390. The annual average…
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113 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 6
The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. by the Mail Steamer Bombay. From 22Nd January, to 20Th February. From 22nd January, to 1st February
A SPECIAL meeting of the members of the Australian Mutual Provident Society was held at the principal office of the Society, in New Pitt-street, on Tuesday morning last. The final report of the Committee of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Report. Per Panama Mail Steamer Ruahine. Empire Office, Thursday Evening. 28th February, 1867
Since the departure of the mail via Suez there has occurred little or nothing of importance in our markets for imported goods. We have to report, however, a general dullness in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →English News. English and European News. to the 10Th January. (Per the Panama Mail Steamer "Rakaia.")
The Crystal Palace or World's Fair Exhibition building took fire at two o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th December. The conflagration commenced in the north wing, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The New Rocket for Shipwreck Service. (From the Pall Mall Ga [?] December 31.)
SOME time about the close of the last century an artillery officer who had risen from the ranks, Lieutenant Bell, conceived the idea of establishing a communication between a stranded vessel and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wreck of the Star of the Evening. (From the Southern Cross, March 1.) Sarrative of a Survivor
The [?]ooner Tawers. J. Kennedy, master, arrived yesterday with the Auckland portion of the survivors from the wreck of the screw steamer Star of the Evening, namely,—Andrew Johnson, carpenter; William Hammond, James Alfred Weaver, Daniel…
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The [?] steamer Star of the Evening, Captain A. C. Turner, left Napler on Tuesday, 19th February, bound for Auckland, with a cargo of [?] sheep, and three passengers, Messrs. Smith [?], and [?]. Experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weather Forecast and Storm Warnings. (From the Journal of the National Life-boat Institution for January.)
It will have been observed, and doubtless With regret by many of our readers, that [?]n the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Rocket for Shipwreck Service. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—I read with much interest in your paper of the 9th [?] the article taken from the Pall Mall Gazette on the above ingenious and valuable invention; but as I find misstatements to have been made therein as to who the first…
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Particulars of a most appalling disastor on the Mississippi river was brought by the last America mail. The steamer Fashion was burnt, and of 400 persons on board, more than 800 lives were lost, the safety of 80…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wrecks and Loss of Life on the Wexford Coast
A letter from Wexford, dated January 6th, says:—The fearful gale which sweet this coast on Friday and Saturday has produced disastrous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DEPARTURE.—March 25. City of Brisbane, steamer for Brisbane. Projected Departures
From London.—John Masterman, Christiana Thompson, William Duthie, and Maid of [?]udah, early; John Duthie 10th April; Sobraon, April 6th. For Panama.—Rakala, steamer, 1st April…
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ON Thursday night, 17th January, near the entrance to the harbour of Calais, a vessel was totally lost with all hands and several English seamen who volunteered to go off to the wreck in the lifeboat. The night,…
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IT is once more our painful duty to report the loss of life by shipwreck. In this instance, the schooner Albion, the property of Mr. J. Shoobert, of Balmain, is the unfortunate vessel. From Samuel Waters, one of the two survivors, we glean the following…
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LOSS OF THE MOSELLE AT BULLI.—We have to record some very severe weather along the coast. It would seem as though the whole Australian coast was feeling the influence of a severe rotatory gale. We scarcely receive news of the terrific hurricane…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Capsizing of the Ketch Cumbria Off Broken Bay Heads, and Loss of Two Lives
INTELLIGENCE was received in town yesterday morning to the effect that the centreboard ketch Cumbria, of 32 tons register, William Anderson, master, trading between Sydney and Brisbane Water, had capsized off Broken Bay Heads. Upon inquiry it was…
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ON Thursday night 17th January, near the entrance to the harbour of Calais, a vessel was totally lost with all hands and several English seamen who volunteered to go off to the wreck in the lifeboat. The night,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Collision of Manly Steamer with Ship Etienne. to the Editor of the Empire
Sir,—Allow me the pleasure of availing myself of your columns to express my grateful feelings towards a sallor at the time on board the ship Elienne, but whom I believe belonged to the crew of the steamer Culloden,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecks of the Schooner Cyclone and Ketch Concord, of Sydney. [From Our Newcastle Correspondent.]
GEORGE BELFOUR, chief officer of the schooner Cyclone, who, With his shipmates, arrived in Newcastle on Sunduy, having walked from Nilson's Bay, says:—" The schooner Cyclone, Mr. Duncan, master, left Sydney for Richmond River on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wreck of the Steamer South Australian. (From the Otage Daily Times, April 5.)
THE South Australian left her moorings at Port Chalmers about twenty minutes after 4 o'clock on the 5th instant, and she was soon outside the Heads. The evening and early night were beautifully fine, and the sea was calm. Until about half-past 7…
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