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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

264 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 14

Accident to the Steamer Phantom

Evening News · Tuesday 2 March 1875 · page 2

The Manly Beach steamer Phantom narrowly escaped being wrecked yesterday morning. During the height of the neree south-east gale, and while she was crowing the heads on her way to Sydney, a very…

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Wrecks on the Coast. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 March 1875 · page 5

THE Leichardt (s.) has arrived from Cooktown. Captain M'Lean reports that at daylight on Thursday he picked up a boat with four men who had been washed away from the Gothenburg (s.), Captain…

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Fearful [?] Wreek of the Gothenburgh (s), and 116 Persons believed to have Perished. The Norseman (s) on a Reef. Stranding of the Mail Steamer Normanby. Perilous Situation of the Steamers Brisbane, Governor Blackall and Lord Ashley. The Floods in the Hunter District. Dreadful Destitution at Maitland

Evening News · Wednesday 3 March 1875 · page 2

Although we were prepared for disastrous reports in consequence of the late bad weather, those to hand far exceed our expectation. The loss by floods in the country has been very serious,…

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The Wreck of the Gothenburg. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane, Thursday, 1 56 A.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 March 1875 · page 5

The Government are anxious to arrange for the dispatch of the Tinonee, to search about the islands in the vicinity of the wreck of the Gothenburg; but, unfortunately, communication is impossible, owing…

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Wreck of the Gothenbers

Evening News · Friday 5 March 1875 · page 2

It will be been on reference to our Melbourne [?]…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 March 1875 · page 5

THE wreck of the Gothenburg (s.) still absorbs public attention. Communication with Maryborough and Rockhampton has been resumed, but there are no tidings of survivors from the ill-fated ship. The…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. Brisbane

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

The Leichardt (s) has arrived from Cooktown. [?]ptain M'Lean reports that at daylight on thursday he picked up a boat with four men who had been washed away from the…

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The Wreck of the Gothenb[?]

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 5

News has been received of the safety of twenty-three of the passengers and crew of the ill-fated steamer Gothenberg. They reached Port Denison yesterday, and from their account of the wreck there…

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Wreck of the Sarah Nicoli

Evening News · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 5

The captain of the Rose and Thistle reports picking up on the beach near the Bellinger River Heads, the figure head and a board with the name of the three-masted schooned Sarah Nicoli, owned by…

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Wreck of the Gothenburg. Fate of the Crew and Passengers. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 7

INTELLIGENCE has just been received that twenty-three of the passengers and crew of the Gothenburg have reached Port Denison, and that all the rest, with the exception of those who dritted away in the…

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Wreck of the Norseman

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 310

The Norseman, steam-tug, from London to Rockhampton via Sydney, was wrecked on the East side of No. 1 of the Banker Group Reef. The captain and crew are saved, and are passengers by the Leichardt…

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Disastrous Floods and Wrecks in Queensland. Brisbane, Saturday, February 27th

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 6 March 1875 · page 9

A north-easterly gale, with heavy rain, has been raging since 2 o'clock this morning. The Florence Irving reached the wharf yesterday evening…

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"Wreck of the Steamship " Gothenburg."

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Wednesday 10 March 1875 · page 21

THIS fine vessel, the property of the Adelaide Government, and used by them for the purposes of intercommunication' with the northern territory, was totally wreaked on the…

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Foundering of a Steamer and Loss of Twenty-five Lives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1875 · page 5

The schooner Leader, from Palermo, arrived at Cardilf on January 11, bringing with her four of the survivors of the Cuten, of Losdon, which foundered in the Bay of Biscay on December 16. The Cortes was a screw…

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Wrecks—gothenburg and Freddy. [By Telegraph.] Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 March 1875 · page 7

THE Bunyip (s.) returned to Townsville after searching for the starboard lifeboat of the Gothenburg, that being the only boat now not accounted for. Search was first made about Whitsunday passage and the…

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Floods and Wrecks. [By Telegraph.] West Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1875 · page 9

IT commenced to rain on Wednesday, 3rd instant, and continued during Thursday with slight intermission. On Friday the rain became heavier, and the river rose 4 feet. During Friday night there was a…

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Total Wreck of the S. S. Gothenburg. Loss of About Eighty Lives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 March 1875 · page 6

A T[?] shipwreok has [?]curred in Torres Straits, at'ended with fearful loss of life, the partioulars of which are gleaned from the statement of four men who arrived by the Loichardt (s.), at Sydney, and by telegrams from…

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The Wreck of the Steamer Gothen Berg

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 31

The arrival of the four survivais from the wreek of the steamer Gotbenberg places us in possession of some addi[?]ional particulars regarding the total wreek of Messrs. M'Kechan, Blackwood, and Co.'s fine steamship Gothenberg, of 741 tons,…

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Wreck of the Steamer Helen Macgregor. Eight Persons Drowned. Grafton, Friday, 6.25 p.m

Evening News · Saturday 13 March 1875 · page 4

The steamer Helen Macgregor, an old trader between Sydney, Newcastle, ana Grafton, struck on a reef on the Clarence Bar, at 4 o'clock this afternoon. She boated on alter being on…

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