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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1870

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Wreck of the Countess of Seafield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 November 1870 · page 4

The following is an extract from the diary of a lady on board the Nation's Hope, bound from Newcastle to the East Indies, from which it will be seen that the Countess of Seafield has been wrecked in Torres Straits…

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Cruise of the Southern Cross (Mission Schooner.)

Evening News · Tuesday 29 November 1870 · page 3
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THE Melanesian Mission schooner Southern Crow has returned from her cruise in the Western Pacific. From the report of Captain Jacobs and private sources we have obtained the following interesting report of her…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Per Mail Steamer Avoca. Political

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 5

BY the last mail our readers beyond the colony were informed that the chief political event of the month was the speech of the Treasurer in which he propounded his scheme for providing…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Avoca.] Stock and Share Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 3

BARTON AND MEL[?]ADO.—We have to report the month just past as the dullest experienced for years in the "stock and share." business, and the transactions that have taken place have not been of a large character. Banks: Owing to the sudden and…

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Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 8

TOTAL LOSS OF THE SCHOONER ALBATROSS—ALL LIVES SAVE[?] —This [?]ne schooner, after cruising several months in the Pacific Ocean with the Earl of P[?]broke and party, was about returning to Auckland by way of Fiji, when during a dark and stormy…

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Cruise of the Southern Cross (Mission Schooner.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 15

THE Melanesian Mission sohooner Southorn Cross has returned from her oruise in the Western Pacific. From the report of Captain Jacobs and private sources we have obtained the following interesting report of her…

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Sinking of a Steamer in the Liffey

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 7

Tuesday morning, at about 8 o'clock, the screw steamer Mauritius from Rotterdam, lying at the Custom House-quay, was found to have sprung a leak. As the tide rose she…

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Summary of News by the Mail Steamer via Suez. London, 6Th October

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 6

I SUPPOSE there is a better chance of this packet reaching its destination than awaits communications dispatched to or from Paris; but it is a [?]arvel it the mails continues to pass freely…

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Life-belts for Shipwrecked Sailors

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 December 1870 · page 13

THE committee of the Royal National Life-boat Institution have for several year's been painfully impressed by the fact that, notwithstanding all the efforts made to rescue shipwrecked seamen, by means of the numerous…

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Terrible Shipwreck; Loss of a Steamer and 170 Lives

Evening News · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 4

We regret to have to record another terrible shipwreck and loss of life—this time on the Irish coast. The Cambria, belonging to the Anchor line of steamers, running between New York and the Clyde, and…

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Terrible Shipwreok: Loss of a Steamer and 170 Lives

Empire · Saturday 24 December 1870 · page 3

We regret to have to record another terrible shipwreck and less of life—this time on the Irish const. The Cambria, belonging to the Anchor line of steamers, running between New York and the Clyde, and…

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Loss of a Steamer and 170 LIVES. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 December 1870 · page 2

IT is our melancholy duty to record Another terrible shipwreck and loss of liffe—this time on the Irish coast. The Cambria, belonging to the Ancher line of steamers, and commanded by Captain Carnigan, was…

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Wreck of the Barque Rialto

Empire · Thursday 29 December 1870 · page 2

YESTERDAY forenoon, about a quarter to 2 o'clock, the barque Rialto, 303 tons, Captain Hodge, from Melbourne, was sighted from Flagstaff Hill and Nobby's, at a distance of three or four miles from the latter,…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Geelong.] Stock Ahd Share Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 December 1870 · page 8

LENNON AND CAPE.—The characteristic features of this market [?] the past month have been an entire absence of speculation, a reduction in the ordinary investments in share securities, and an increasing searcity of Debenture and Treasury Bill stocks. The…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Per Mail Steamer Geelong. Political

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 December 1870 · page 5

THE changes which have recently taken place favour the idea that in political combinations all things are possible. When the Avoca left last month a crisis was imminent. The "ins" and…

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Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 December 1870 · page 7

THE B[?]IG DEVA ABANDONED AT SEA.—The Port Macquaric correspondent of the Macleay Herald, writing under date December 5th, saysL—At daylight this morning. Captain Peter Davies, of the brig Deva, the steward, and two o[?] the crew,…

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The Great Britain Steamer

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 17

IT will be seen, on referring to our business columns, that the favourite steamship the Great Britain is to leave Melbourne…

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Terrible Shipwreck; Loss of a Steamer and 170 Lives

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 23

We regret to have to record another terrible shipwreck and loss of life—this time on the Irish coast. The Cambria, belonging to the Anchor line of steamers, running between New York and the Clyde, and…

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The Loss of the Cambria American Steamer

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 31 December 1870 · page 6

The loss of the Cambria steamship, of the Anchor Line, has been confirmed. Intelligence reached Derry on Thursday that the vessel was wrecked off the coast of…

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