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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1873

253 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 13

The Wreck of the Northfleet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1873 · page 7

The first intimation which reached Dover of what proved to be one of the most fearful shipwrecks of modern date was the arrival in the harbour at 3 o'clock on January 23 of the good lugger Mary Anne, bringing thirty…

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Wreck of the Emigrant-ship Northfleet. Heart-rending Scenes. Three-hundred and Twenty-seven Lives Lost

Empire · Thursday 13 March 1873 · page 3

The first intimation which reached Dover of what proved to be one of the most fearful shipwrecks of modernd date was the arrival in the harbour at 3 o'clock on January 23, of the good lugger Mary Anne, bringing thirty…

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Wreck of the Missionary Schooner Dayspring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 March 1873 · page 4

THE captain and one of the missionary schooner Dayspring, belonging to the Prasbyterian Missionary Society, arrived yesterday from New C[?]nia in the steamer Havilah. They report the loss of the Dayspring at Aneitecum on Monday, the 6th…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner Dayspring

Evening News · Friday 14 March 1873 · page 2

LIKE many other vessels that have been employed in disseminating Christianity amongst the natures of the South Sea Islands, the scheoner Dayspring, of the Presbyterian mission, has found a last resting place on a…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner DAT-=mSPRING

Empire · Friday 14 March 1873 · page 2

LIKE many other ressels that have been employed in disseminating Christianity amongst the natives of the South-Sea Islands, the schooner Dayspring, of the Presbytcrian mission, has found a last resting place on a…

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Loss of the Mission Schooner Dayspring

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 8

CAPTAIN JENNINGS, of the missionary schooner Dayspring, arrived on Thursday in the steamship Havilah, and brings intelligence of the loss of that vessel on a coral reef at Aneiteum, during a severe hurricane on the…

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The Wreck of the Northfleet

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 330

The first intimation which reached Dover of what proved to be one of the most fearful shipwrecks of modern date was the arrival in the harbour at 3 o'clock on January 23 of the good lugger Mary Anne, bringing thirty…

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Wreck of the Emigrant-ship Northfleet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 March 1873 · page 24

The first intimation which reached Dover of what proved to be one of the most fearful shipwrecks of modern date was the arrival in the harbour at 3 o'clock on January 23, of the good lugger Mary Anne, bringing thirty…

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Wreck of the Polmaise

Evening News · Monday 17 March 1873 · page 3
Also in Empire

AN enquiry into the loss of the barque Polmaise fairing been instituted by the Shipping Inspector at Rockhampton by direction of the Marino Board, at Brisbane, the evidence takes has been forwarded to them for their…

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The Wreck of the Polmaise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1873 · page 4

An inquiry into the loss of the barque Polmaise having been instituted by the shipping Inspector at Rockhampton, by direction of the Marine Board, the evidence taken has been forwarded to them for their consideration. The Shipping Inspector at…

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The Mail Steamer. Bombay, March 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1873 · page 5

The R.M.S.S. Sumatra left Ceylon to-day for Australia…

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The Mail Steamer. Bombay, March 17

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 369

The R.M.S.S. Sumatra left Ceylon to-day for Australia…

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Wreck of the Polmaise

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 23

AN enquiry into the loss of the barque Polmaise having been, instituted by the Shipping Inspector at Rockhampton, by direction of the Marine Board, at Brisbane, the evidence taken has been forwarded to them for their…

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The Wreck of the Northfleet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 March 1873 · page 17

THE wreck of the Northfleet proves to have been one of the most terrible disasters which has ever happened in the English…

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Trial Trip of the Steamer Coliaroy

Evening News · Monday 24 March 1873 · page 2

THE trial trip of this steamer, on Saturday, afforded an opportunity of witnessing one of the most successful transformations that has been effected in a colonial steamship The alterations and improvements, and the…

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Trial Trip of the Steamer Collaroy

Empire · Monday 24 March 1873 · page 2

THE trial trip of this steamer, on Saturday, afforded an oppertunity of witnessing one of the most successful transformations that has been effected in a colonial steamship The alterations and improvements, and the…

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Wrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1873 · page 8

THE DAYSPRING.—The captain and crow of the Dayspring, belonging to the Presbyterian Missionary Society, arrived on 13th instant from New Caledonia in the steamer Havilah. They report the loss of the Dayspring at Aneiteum on Monday, the 6th…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 March 1873 · page 5

THE Mooltan, which conveyed the February mails, carried two addresses of substantially the same purport, protesting against the decision of the Intercolonial Conference, that Sydney should…

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Telegrams This Day Cable Messages. Greatest Shipping Disaster Ever Known. Wreck of the Atlantic. 700 Lives Lost. University Boat Race. 400 English Labourers for New Zealand. King Kameblameha Visits America

Evening News · Friday 4 April 1873 · page 2

Lodged in London, March 28, at 6.30 p.m. Received in Sydney, April 3, at 9.20 p.m. Four hundred English agricultural labourers have embarked for New Zealand, under the…

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