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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

264 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 14

Wreck of a Steamer—serious Loss of Life. Plymouth, October 25

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 2 January 1875 · page 28

News reached Falmouth on Saturday of the foundering in the Bay of Biscay of the steamship Mary, of and from Glasgow to Trinidad. She encountered a very heavy gale for some days, and…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer Somerset Via Torres Straits. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1875 · page 7

THE Torres Straits Steamer Somerset left Singapore on the 15th December, and Batavia on the 18th. She passed the Legislator on the 23rd, and the Flintshire on the 27th. She left Somerset at…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer Somerset. Via Torres Straits. Brisbane. Tuesday, 11.45 a.m

Evening News · Saturday 2 January 1875 · page 2

The mail steamer Somerset arrived at Towns-vile to-day, bringing London advices to the 7th of November. Her passengers for Sydney are Messrs. Hochaft,…

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Arrival of the Mail Steamer Somerset Via Torres Straits. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Brisbane. Friday, 11.45 a.m

Empire · Monday 4 January 1875 · page 2

The mail steamer Somerset arrived at Townsville to-day, bringing London advices to the 7th of November. Her passengers for Sydney are Messrs. Hochaft,…

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Telegrams This Day Cable Messages. the Suez Mall. Alphonso Phaceablt Recognised in Spain. Liberal Ministry Formed at Madrid. Fifty Thousand Miners on Strike. the Supposed Nan a Sahib Declared to Be an Impostor. Death of Ledru Rolin. the Torres Straits Mall. Decoration of Sir Hercules Robinson. the Attorney-geneal, Mr. Innes, Knighted. Cospatrick Belief Fund. Copper and Tin Markets. the Steamer Whampoa. [Reuter's Special Telegrams.] London, via Singapore, January 2

Evening News · Monday 4 January 1875 · page 2

Received in Sydney, January 3, 11.50 p.m. The P. and O. Company's mail steamship Nubia armed at Galle on the 24th ultime. Alphonso, son of Isabella 11., has gene to Spain,…

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Telegrams This Day. Cable Messages the Sydney Loan. the Adelaide Loan. Burning of the Cospatrick. Wreck of Three Ships. London Shipping Bank Rate of Discount. the Imbroglio in New Orleans. London, January 6. Declared is Sydney, January 11, 1.15 a.m

Evening News · Monday 11 January 1875 · page 2

Upwards of half a million of the Sydney loss was taken up. yesterday, at and above the minimum; the balance, by the Stock Exchange, at 90, The Adelaide loan has proved a failure, only…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Wrecks. London, January 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1875 · page 5

LATER advices from the Cape, of Good H[?]e give further particulars of the burning of the Cospatrick. The Edwin, bound for Adelaide, was lost on…

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Steamer Foundered Off the French Coast.—sixty Lives Lost

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1875 · page 3

London, December 2.—The steamer La Plata, from Gravesend to Rio Grande del. Sud, chartered by Siemens Brothers to repair cable telegraph, foundered off Ushant on the,29th…

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Cuba. Steamer Sunk.—thirty Lives Lost

Empire · Tuesday 12 January 1875 · page 3

Havana, December 4.—The Spanish coasting steamer, Tomas Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo, struck yesterday morning on Morrillo, near Guantanamo, and sunk…

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Cuba. Steamer Sune—thirty Lives Lost

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1875 · page 3

Havana, December 4.—The Spanish coasting steamer, Tomas Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo struck yesterday morning on Morrillo, near Guantanamo, and sunk…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer City of Melbourne.] Stock and Share Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1875 · page 7

J. MULLINS,—The business done during the latter part of December was very small, but I note considerable improvement since the opening of the new year. This is no doubt chi[?]fly owing to the approach of dividend time, but I expect that the negotiation…

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Foundering of a Steamer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 73

The Times of October 28 states that "the steamer Horseguard, of Leith, has brought into this port M'Cormcok and Foster, the third engineer and one of the fireman of the steamer Mary, of…

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Wrecks. London, January 6

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 January 1875 · page 82

Later advices from the Cape of Good Hope give farther particulars of the burning of the Cospatrick. The Edwin, bound for Adelaide, was lost on…

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Wreck of a Steamer.—Serious Loss of Life

Evening News · Monday 18 January 1875 · page 3

News readied Falmouth on Saturday of the foundering in the Bay of Biscay of the steamship Mary, of and from Glasgow to Trinidad. She encountered a very heavy gale for some days, and…

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Cruise of H.M. Surveying Schooner Pearl. (From the Brisbane Courier.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1875 · page 4

THE Government schooner Pearl, under Staff-Commander E.P H[?]well, R N., which returned to port on the 2nd instant, from a seven months' cruise, has, with the assistance of the steam launch Sabina, under the command of Navigating Lieutenant Connor,…

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Jack Ashore. AIR--Derry Down

Sydney Punch · Friday 22 January 1875 · page 1

A JOLLY tar was brought before the Bench yesterday charged with having been drunk and disorderly. In reply to the charge he said, "Drunk! of course I was drunk. I came ashore on purpose to get drunk. I must not get drunk aboard, and was sent ashore to get drunk." When reminded that he was charged also with…

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Extracts from Papers by the California and Suez Mails. Great Britain. Steamer Foundered Off the French Coast.—sixty Lives Lost

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 26

London, December 2.—The steamer La Plata, from Gravesend to Rio Grande del Sud, chartered by Siemens Brothers to repair cable telegraph, foundered off Ushant on the 29th…

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Cuba. Steamer Sunk-thirty Lives Lost

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 January 1875 · page 26

IIavana, December 4.—The Spanish coasting steamer, Tomas Brooks, from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo, struck yesterday morning on Morrillo, near Guantanamo, and sunk…

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Wreck of the Brig Oberlin on Hogan's Island. (From the Argus, January 28.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1875 · page 4

An inquiry into the circumstances attending the wreck of the brig Oberlin, of Adelaide, on Hogan'a Island, on 10th January, was held on Tuesday at the Steam Navigation Board's Office. Present—Captains Payne (in the chair), Devlin, and Fullarton,…

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Loss of the Steamer Mongol

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 February 1875 · page 5

We much regret to have to record the total loss of the above steamer, Captain Flamank, which left on the morning of the 12th December for Yokohama. She started about 10.30 a.m., with a pilot on board, and had fine…

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