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204 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 11
THE Victorian Steam Navigation Board resumed the inquiry relative to the loss of the Liverpool ship British Admiral, at the office, Queen-street, Melbourne, on Wednesday. The first witness examined was a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CHARLES A[?].—This vessel was totally wrecked on April 27, on her passage from Newcastle to Singapore, on Eastern Fields Reefs. The captain and nine men arrived at Port Albany, after eight days, in a small boat. The chief mate and eight men left…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FROM Point Netherby to Fitzmaurice Bay, a distance of nearly fifteen miles, the beach was lined with fragments of the cargo and traces of the wreck, indicative of the fearful amount of damage done, and ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE accompanying engraving represents the dread scene when the vessel having struck the passengers and crew rushed on the deck in one despairing clamouring mass, striving to get into the boat which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →FROM Point Netherby to Fitzmaurice Bay, a distance of nearly fifteen miles, the beach was lined with fragments of the cargo and traces of the wreck, indicative of the fearful amount of damage done, and ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EARLY on Wednesday morning information arrived in Taree that the ketch Chance had been wrecked at the Heads the previous evening, which naturally caused a large amount of excitement. Upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Among them was little Tilly Dale. Poor Tilly! She was the pride of the crew--so they told me. The sailors and all of us shed tears as we buried the lovely little thing. She was one of three daughters, coming out here with her mother." "She was the favourite of the vessel all the passage, the pet and admired of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CAPTAIN James Bremer says: — "During the space of twenty-two years in the Mauritius, Java, and China trade, I have made about forty voyages, and generally coming in on an E. N. E. course. After arriving at the meridian of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE neighbourhood of the locality dopicted in the accompanying engraving—a view on the south-western coast of King's Island, Bass's Straits—has, in all probability, been the scene of greater loss of life and…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →From Point Netherby to Fitzmaurice Bay, a distance of nearly flfteon miles, the beach was lined with fragments of the cargo and traces of the wreck, indicative of the fonrful amount of daningo done, and ruin…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →During the heavy westerly gale which throughout yesterday, the wrock of one of our coasting fleet took place at Botany Heads. Captain Costen, the master of the Peri, who arrived in town last evening, states that the Pari left…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY telegram from Queensland we have the tidings of another disastrous wreck, viz., the Eastern and Australian Mail Company's steamer Flint shire, which has been running the mails between Singapore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"The mall steamer Flintshire, winch left for Brisbane on Monday afternoon, struck the ledge of a rock at 5 p.m., same day, five miles south of Cape Cleveland. The passengers have all been landed safely at Tawnsville. Captain Sturrock and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE steamer Flintshire, from Batavia 5th instant, with a large number of passengers and a full cargo of eastern pr[?]duce, had prosecuted her voyage successfully, until she arrived at Townsville yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY telegram from Queensland we have the tidings of another disastrous wreck, viz., the Eastern and Australian Mail Company's steamer Flintshire, which has been running the mails between Singapore,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TELEGRAM from Tewasville, received in Sydney on Tuesday, says:- "The mail steamer Flintshire, which left for Brisbane on Monday afternoon, struck the ledge of a rock at 5 p.m., same…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the heavy westerngale which prevailed throughout yesterday, the wreck of one of our coasting fleet took place at Botany Heads. Captain Costen, the master of the Perl, who arrived in town last evening, states that the Perl left…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →THE schooner Peri, which left Woollongong on Sunday, was wrecked at Botany Bay on Monday evening. She reached Botany about half-past five in the evening and when making the third…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram from Townsville, received in Sydney on Tuesday, says:— "The mail steamer Flintshire, which left for Brisbane on Monday afternoon, struck the ledge of a rock at 5 p.m., same…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →BY telegrams from Brisbane we learn that there is some prospect of getting the mail steamer off the rock on which she has been wrecked. The passengers, mail, and specie, and some…
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