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Sydney · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1876

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Wrecks. London, March 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1876 · page 5

The ship Coonatta, from Adelaide, which stranded at Newhaven, is breaking up. Portion of the cargo is being recovered. The barque Glenary, 661 tons, from…

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The Refrigerator Steamer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1876 · page 297

FOR the sectional views aud description of thus steamship we refer the reader to page 299 of this issue…

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The Proposed Refrigerator Steamer

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1876 · page 299

IT may be safely predicted (says the Scientific American) that the time is not very far distant then vessels carrying perishable cargoes of fruit, meat, and other articles of rood, will make constant and regular voyages between the tropics…

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Wreck of the Strathmore. Bombay, February 26

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1876 · page 300

A ship touched at Galle yesterday, and landed twenty survivors of the Strathmore, from London to New Zealand, wrecked on Crozet Island in July, 1876. They were rescued in a wretched condition on…

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Wrecks. London, March 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1876 · page 305

The ship Coonatta, from Adelaide, which, stranded at Newhaven, is breaking up. Portion of the cargo is being recovered. The barque Glenary, 661 tons, from Adelaide…

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Commercial Circulars. [Per Mail Steamer Colima.] Stock and Share Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 March 1876 · page 6

MELHADO AND CURTIS.—The improvement in business noticed in our last month's circular, we are pleased to report, has continued. Business has been confined mostly to bank shares and debentures, and most stocks show an advance in price. Banks: A large…

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Telegraphic. European Intelligence. Wrecks. London, March 1

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1876 · page 329

THE ship Coonatta, from Adelaide, which stranded at Newhaven, is breaking up. Portion of the cargo is being recovered. The barque Glenary, 661 tons, from…

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Further Particulars of the Wreck of the Strathmore. Thirty-nine Lives Lost

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 14

THE following further particulars concerning the loss of the Strathmore are contained in a telegram from Point de Galle, published in the Otago Daily Times of March 6th…

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Wrecks During 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 8

SUBJOINED is an official register of wreeks which have occurred on the coast of New Smith Wales during the year 1875:- Centurion, schooner, 48 tons, W. Owen, master; losses—no lives—in ballast; value, £300; insured, £800. This vessel was…

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Further Particulars of the Wreck of the Strathmore

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1876 · page 12

The following further particulars concerning the loss of the Strathmore are contained in a telegram from Point de Gaile, published in the Otago Daily Times of March 6th:—…

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Total Wreck of the Brig Dart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1876 · page 4

A TELEGRAM has been received from Nelsen Bay (Port Stephens) by Captain Campbell, owner of the brig Dart, reporting the wreck of his vessel on Saturday, on the north head of Nelson Bay, and that the crew were saved. No cause is agaigned for the accident;…

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Wreck of the Steamer Banshee. Loss of Twenty Lives Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1876 · page 5

THE Banshee (s.), bound from Townsville to Cooktown, is a total wreck on Hinchinbrook Island, fifteen miles from Cardwell. The captain, stewardess, mate, engineer, carpenter, sailor and twenty-one passengers…

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[?] Friday, 12.20 p.m. Wreck of the Banshee (s.)-TOTAL Loss of the Vessel. Great Loss of Life

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1876 · page 2

The steamer Banshee has been totally wrecked on Hinebinbrook Island, which in situated between Cleveland Bay and Rockhampton Bay. Seventeen passengers and some stowaways were…

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Total Wreck of the Banshee-Twenty Lives Lost

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1876 · page 2

Telegraphic intelligence from Brisbane state? that the steamer Banshee, bound from Townsville to Cooktown, lias been totally wrecked on [?] Island, fifteen miles from Cardwell. The captain…

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The Wreck of the Steamer Banshee. Further Particulars. Brisbane, Friday, Midnight

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1876 · page 13

THE Banshee (s.) struck on Cape Sandwich, Hinchinbrook Island, on Tuesday afternoon, and went to pieces in five minutes after striking. The sea was running mountains high, and the wind blowing a…

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Melbourne. Discovery of a Wreck. Monday, 12.25 p.m

Evening News · Monday 27 March 1876 · page 2

There was a great thunderstorm throughout the colony on Saturday. The streets of Melbourne were like a sea, shops being inundated, and cabs overturned…

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Steamer Burned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 March 1876 · page 6

Vickaburg, February 27.—The steamer Mary Belle, owned by J. Frank Hicks and Alf. Grissall, was burned to the water's edge this afternoon. The boat was taking on cotton, and had a cargo of five or six thousand bales of…

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Wreck of the Wild Wave

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Friday 31 March 1876 · page 15

From the Perth Inquirer of 12th January we have intelligence of a hurricane of a terribly disastrous and fatal nature at the North-west Settlement. The Na Malole, an American schooner, which arrived at Freemantle from Port Walcott,…

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Steamer Burned

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1876 · page 428

Vickisburg, February 27.—The steamer Mary Belle, owned by J. Frank Hicks and Alf. Grissall, was burned to the water's edge this afternoon. The boat was taking on cotton, and had a cargo of five or six thousand bales of…

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New Steamer for Torres' Straits Mail Service

Evening News · Tuesday 4 April 1876 · page 2

The agents of the E. and A. Mail Steam Company, Messrs. Scott, Henderson, and Co., have received a telegram announcing the departure yesterday, at 8 a.m. of the company's magnificent new steamer…

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