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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

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Fatal Shipwreck on Lake Michigan.— Twenty-two Lives Lost

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 October 1875 · page 27

Chicago, September 11.—A terrible disaster which accurred on Lake Michigan has just been reported here. The propellor Equinox, on her way from, Chicago to Bay City, Michigan, with a cargo…

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The Discovery of the Baxter River by the Ellengowan, Missionary Schooner. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 October 1875 · page 5

SIR,—I think you will agree with me in saying that there should be some tangible expression of opinion on the part of our Sydney merchants towards Mr. M'Farlane for his valuable services in the above discovery of a highway into…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Per P. and O. C[?].'s Steamer Pera. [Via Suez.] Political

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 October 1875 · page 5

THE banquet given to the Hon. William [?]ster on the 1st instannt, although arranged for upon the shortest notice, was very largely attended. This farewell gathering appears to…

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The Wreck of the Cambridgeshire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 5

A CORRESPONDENT sends to the Melbourne Argus the following communication respecting the operations going on for the recovery of cargo from the wreck of the Cambridgeshire:—…

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Wreck of a Wool Ship

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 November 1875 · page 31

The New South Wales Marine Insurances Company have received a telegram from Melbourne, which p[?] to the lose of some vessel off the coast of New Zealand, apparently having wool on board. The message runs, as [?]—…

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Serious Steamer Collision

Evening News · Thursday 11 November 1875 · page 5

THE steamship Sir James C. Stephenson, Captain Ball, of South Shields, 2000 tons, with a general cargo from London, bound for Bombay, arrived in Plymouth Sound during the night of September…

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Arrival of the Suez Mail Steamer at Glenelg

Evening News · Thursday 11 November 1875 · page 4

THE Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S, China, with the European and Indian mails, was sighted off Glenelg (South Australia) this morning, at twenty minutes past…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Vasco Di Gama.] Stock and Share Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 7

MELHADO AND CURTIS.—Business very dull, and there is very little strange to notice since last month's circular. The banks are still giving very high interst on "fixed deposits," and are thus absorbing most of the money. Banks: New South Wales…

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Serious Steamer Collision

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 27

THE steamship Sir Jaines C. Stepheneon, Captain Bell, of South Shields. 2000 tons, with a general cargo from London, bound for Bombay, arrived in Plymouth Sound during the night of September…

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A Magnificent Steamer for the Australian Mail Service

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 6

The new Pacific mail steamship, City of San Francisco, arrived at Pier No. 42. North River, at 10 30 a.m., Saturday last, having made a trial trip of three days from Chester…

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The Sydney Monthly Overland Mail. Per P. and O. Co.'s Steamer China. [Via Suez.] Political

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 5

THE fact that railways and other large works are constructed by the Government, and worked under a department of the State, imparts a political complexion to many…

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Loss of the Steamer Pacific

Evening News · Monday 29 November 1875 · page 4

Our cable message from London records the loss of the steamer Pacific by collision, fraught with the fearful loss of two hundred and fifty lives, while making the coasting passage from Victoria (British…

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Loss of a Steamer and Two Hundred and Fifty Lives. London, November 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 November 1875 · page 7

The steamer Pacific, bound for San Francisco, fotmdered after a collision, and 250 persons were drowned…

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Loss of a Steamer and Two Hundred and Fifty Lives. Singapore, November 27

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 718

The steamer Pacific, bound for San Francisco, foundered after a collision, and 250 persons were drowned…

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The Burning of a Swedish Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1875 · page 4

The Pall Mall Gazette's Copenhagen correspondent, writing on the 6th October, says:—From the additional particulars which I have gathered about the burning of the Swedish steamer, and the terrible calamity which…

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The Burning of a Swedish Steamer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1875 · page 764

The Pall Mall Gazette's Copenhagen correspondent, writing on the 6th October, says:—From the additional particulars which I have gathered about the burning of the Swedish steamer, and the terrible calamity which…

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Foundering of the Steamer Pacific. Upward of One Hundred and Fifty Persons Drowned. Narrative by a Survivor

Evening News · Monday 13 December 1875 · page 5

THE intelligence was flashed over the wires of the northern coast yesterday afternoon that the steamer Pacific had foundered off Cape Flattery, and that all on board had been engulphed in the…

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Foundering of the Steamer Pacific. (From the Alta California.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 27

THE intelligence was flushed over the wires of the northern coast yesterday afternoon that the steamer Pacific had foundered off Cape Flattery, and that all on board had been engulphed in the…

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Wreck of the [?]Ner Lyttona

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 December 1875 · page 30

The [?]t Kearney, schooner, from the Solomon Islands, bringing Captain Koiengrcn, the crew, and forty-live passengers of the [?]yttona schooner, previously reported as wrecked in the same group, came up the river yesterday…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 December 1875 · page 7

H. A. CAPE—-Business in our Share market since my last report has been quiet and unimportant, and the demand for share securities has been of a limited character. Banks: New South Wales have slightly improved, sales at £43, now offering at…

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