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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1873

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Wreck of the Atlantic. Loss of 738 Lives. London, April 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1873 · page 7

THE United States mail steamer Atlantic, which left Liverpool on the 20th March, for New York, stranded near Halifax, on the coast of Nova Scotia. The details of the wreck are of…

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Telegrpahic Intelligence. Cable Messages. [From Our London Correspondent.] Greatest Shipping Disaster Ever Known. Wreck of the Atlantic. 700 Lives Lost. University Boat Race. 400 English Labourers for New Zealand. King Kamehameha Visits America

Empire · Saturday 5 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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The Wreck of the Atlantic. London, April 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 April 1873 · page 5

The latest details received reduce the number of lives lost by the wreck of the steamer Atlantic to 560; among these were 350 women and children…

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The Wreck of the Northfleet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1873 · page 6

The notion that the vessel which had run down the Northfleet was itself lying deep under the waters of Dungeness Bay is dissipated by the apparently authentic intelligence that the steamer Murillo, which passed Lisbon…

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Wreck of the Steamer Atlantic

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 24

THE world had scarcely realised the terrible result of the collision of the Northfleet with the Spanish steamer Murillo, whereby over 320 lives were lost, when it was startled by the news of a far more appalling shipping…

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The Steamer that Ran Down the Nortnfleet

Empire · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 3

The evidence of the British engineers on board the Murille, Mr. Bethell and Mr, Goodeve, and of the.English passenger, Mr. Bell, leaves no kind of doubt that the Murille was the ship which sank the Nortbfleet…

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The Steamer that Ran Down the Northfleet

Evening News · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 2

The evidence of the British engineers on board the Murillo, Mr. Bethell and Mr. Goodeve, and of the English passenger, Mr. Bell, leaves no kind of doubt that the Murillo was the ship which sank the Northfleet…

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The Wreck of the Northfleet

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 469

The notion that the vessel which had run down the Northfleet was itself lying deep under the waters of Dungeness Bay is dissipated by the apparently authentic intelligence that the steamer Murillo, which passed Lisbon…

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The Wreck of the Atlantic. London, April 5

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 466

The latest details received reduce the number of lives lost by the wreck of the steamer Atlantic to 560; among these were 350 women and children…

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Telegraphic. European Intelligence. Wreck of the Atlantic. Loss of 738 Lives. London,. April 2

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1873 · page 465

THE United States mail steamer Atlantic, which left Liverpool on the 20th March, for New York, stranded near Halifax, on the coast of Nova Scotia. The details of the wreck are of…

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The New Hebrides Mission and Wreck of the Dayspring

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 April 1873 · page 5

A PUBLIC meeting in connection with the above subjects was held yesterday evening, in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, off Bathurst-street. The chair was occupied by the Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly—the Rev. Dr. Lang…

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The Mail Steamer. Bombay, April 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 April 1873 · page 5

The R. M. S. S. Baroda left Galle for Aus-tralia on the 14th instant…

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The Steamer That Ran Down the Northfleet

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 23

The evidence of the British engineers on board the Murillo, Mr. Bethell und Mr. Goodeve, and of the English passenger, Mr. Bell, leaves no kind of doubt that the Murillo was the ship which sank the Northfleet…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 April 1873 · page 5

PARLIAMENT is not yet prorogued, but there is an evident desire to bring the session to a speedy close. A large number of measures will have to be abandoned for a time, but the exigencies of…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. the Wreck of the Atlantic. London, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 April 1873 · page 7

THE official inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the United States mail steamer Atlantic, on the coast of Nova Scotia, has terminated. The verdict is that the supply of coal was…

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The Wreck of the Atlantic. London, April 21

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1873 · page 529

The official inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the United States mail steamer Atlantic, on the coast of Nova Scotia, has terminated. The verdict is that the supply of coal was…

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Telegrams This Day Bathurst Assizes. Coal Mining in Victoria. Latest Commercial and Mining. Huster's Claim. the Melbourne Assizes. Suicide at Geelong. the French War Steamer Rhine. Bathurst

Evening News · Monday 28 April 1873 · page 2

The following cases have been disposed of it the Circuit Court before Mr. Justice Faucett:—Eugene Beaumont, horse-stealing; pleaded guilty; eighteen months. John…

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Wreck of the Atlantic. London, April 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1873 · page 5

At the request of the owners of the steamship Atlantic, [?] fresh inquiry has been ordered into the circums[?]nces connected with her loss. This second investigation is to take place at Liverpool…

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Life-boat Casualties

Empire · Wednesday 30 April 1873 · page 3

THE loss of six brave men out of one of the life-boats of the Royal National Institution, at Balbriggan, on the 3rd February, is states an English paper, very [?]montable, and may possibly create a feeling of…

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The Italian War Steamer Garibaldi

Empire · Wednesday 30 April 1873 · page 3

THE Italian war frigate Garibaldi, ont for a two years' cruise, anchored in Hobson's Bay yesterday afternoon. She was hoarded at once by the Italian vice-consul, Signor Branchi. On arriving she fired a Royal salute…

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