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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1875

264 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 14

Wreck of a Large Barque

Evening News · Wednesday 16 June 1875 · page 2

Captain Delmer, of the barque Glencoe, reports that while on his passage from Rockhampton to Newcastle, on the 29th ultimo, he passed a vessel, apparently a barque of considerable size, high and dry…

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Terrible Disaster,—schooner Capsized, and Sixteen Lives Lost

Evening News · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 3

The British barque Marama, which arrived yesterday from Tahiti. brought news, which explains the non-arrival of the schooner Margaret Crockard which was long overdue. The advices are from…

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Terrible Disaster.—a Schooner Capsized and Sixteen Lives Lost. (From the San Francisco Chronicle, May 1.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 19 June 1875 · page 27

The British barque Marama, which arrived yesterday from Tahiti, brought news which explains the non-arrival of the schooner Margaret Crockard, which was long overdue. The advices are from…

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Total Loss the Steamer Rangatira

Evening News · Friday 25 June 1875 · page 2

THE Australasian Steam Navigation Company, by their efforts to open up and encourage direct communication with Fiji, have sustained the loss of one of their finest screw steamers, the Rangatira, a vessel of…

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Loss of the Steamer Rangatira, at Noumea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 June 1875 · page 5

WE learn from Mr. C[?]fford, a passenger by the Rangatira, who arrived las[?] e[?]ening from Noumea by the schooner Noumea, that t[?]e Ra[?]gatira, Captain Woods, left Levuka on the 26th altimo with the following…

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The Mail Steamer Macgregor in a Gale

Evening News · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 7

THE mail steamer Macgregor left Sydney on Saturday, the 15th June, for San Francisco, via Auckland, and during that day a considerable quantity of water was shipped fore and aft…

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Loss of the A. S. N. Co.'s Steamer Rangatira. Latest Particulars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 8

BY the arrival of the Lord Ashley (s.), we learn of the complete wreck of the A. S. N. Co.'s steamer Rangatira on a reef off the coast of New Caledonia. Captain Woods is a passenger by the Lord Ashley, and from him we learn the following particulars:—…

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The Wreck of the Schiller

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 June 1875 · page 6

The New York Herald has received by cable the following account of the wreck of the Schiller, given by Henry Stern, of New York, one of the first-cabin passengers:— For several days previous to the 7th of May, the…

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The Wreck of the Schiller—further Particulars

Evening News · Monday 28 June 1875 · page 3

A correspondent writing from Seilly on the 10th May, says: "Our voyage here in the Lady of the [?]eles was sadly eventful. We had not long passed the Rundi[?]stone before little pieces of wreck…

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Wreck of the Mail-steamer Schiller

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1875 · page 7

A terrible disaster has occurred off the Scilly Islands, On the night of May 7, the mail steamer Schiller, on her voyage, from New York to Plymouth, ran on the Betarrier Ledges during a danie fog, and in a…

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The Wreck of the Rangatira (s.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1875 · page 6

THE Marine Board held on Inquiry on Monday respecting the loss of the Rangaratta (s). The captain, chief and second officers, and second engineer were examined. Their evidence closed the inquiry, and the Board reserved their decision until next meeting,…

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 July 1875 · page 6

A RESENTT number of the Times says:— A meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Mr. Thomas Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also present the Marquis of…

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Wreck of the Barque Corrido

Evening News · Thursday 1 July 1875 · page 2

Information reached Sydney this afternoon, by telegram, of the total wreck of the barque Corrido, of Sydney. The telegram was as follows : "Barque Corrido sprung a leak in westerly gale. Now a…

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Extracts from Papers by the Mail. Wreck of Another Large Steamer Loss of Sixty-two Lives

Evening News · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 3

ONE of the survivors of the lost steamer adiz was landed at Southampton yesterday morning from the steamer Guernsey, having been sent on from Breast by the British Consul via St. Malo. He is…

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The Wreck of the Schiller

Evening News · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 3

A special correspondent at Scilly supplies some further melancholy and touching details in connection with the wreck of the ill-fated Schiller. Among other things he records the recovery of the…

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Wreck

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 July 1875 · page 9

P.C.E.—On June 5. at midnight (says our Newcastle corresponde[?]. during the heavy gale and high sea that was running, the barque P.C.E., Captain Brown, a regular trader to Newcastle, bound from Dunedin, New Zealand, to this port in ballast, was…

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Wreck of the Mail-steamer Schiller

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 9

A terrible dimeter has occurred off the Soilly Islands. On the night of May 7, the mail steamer Sohiller, on her voyage from New York to Plymouth, ran on the Retarrier Ledges during a dense fog, and in a…

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Total Loss of the Steamer Rangatira

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 29

THE Australasian Steam Navigation Company, by their efforts to open up and encourage direct communication with Fiji, have sustained the less of one of their finest screw steamers, the Rangatira, a vessel of…

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The Mail Steamer Macgregor in a Gale

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 29

THE mail steamer Macgregor left Sydney on Saturday, the 15th June, for San Francisco, via Auckland, and during that day a considerable quantity of water was shipped fore and aft…

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America. Wreck of the Schiller, 200 Lives Lost

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 July 1875 · page 6

THE steamship Schiller, Captain Thomas, of the Eagle line, which sailed from New York on Tuesday, April 27, for Hamburg, with a full complement of passengers, in a thick fog…

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