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248 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 13
Information has just been received of the total wreck of the Geltwood from Liverpool to Melbourne, 12 miles south of Rivoli Bay. All the lives on board are supposed to be lost. One dead body…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF former instances of shipwreck on our coast have been attended with more disastrous consequences and harrowing details of loss of life, a more mournful incident than the foundering of the cutter Gem…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The steamer Whampoa arrived in Hobson's last night at half-past eleven, after making the passage from England in 42 days. She started from Plymouth at midnight on the 27th May, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ship went ashore at 1 o'clock; and there are circumstances connected with it which will lead to a searching inquiry. It is said that after sighting Cape Borda the mate shaped the course of the ship so as to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →POLITICAL.—Parliament has not met since the date of our summary per P. and O. S. China. On Thursday, June 6, notice was given by Mr. Fitzpatrick of a direct vote of want of confidence in the Government, in view of which Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Turn [?] Watch of the 8th instant has the following further particulars respecting the loss of theGeltwood:- When the vessel was wreeked, and under what circumstances, in entiredly a matter of conjecture…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque, Geltwood, Captain Harrington, master, a new Iron vessel, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne, has been totally wrecked about 12 miles south Rivoll Bay, which is situated on the South Australian coast, near Gulchen Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The mail steamer China went ashore at low ! water oa the Harshoe Reef, Mariao, near Brighton, at half-past twelve last night, but was got off with the rising tide at four o'clock this morning, after having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the captain of a vessel Istely arrived in Port Adelaide, and which left Liverpool very nearly the same time as the Geltwood, the following details have been about those who were on board the ill-fated ship:-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHILE the news of the wreck of the Geltwood, on the eastern coast and its disastrous consequences, was fresh in the minds of the public, information reached Adelaide, on Friday morning, that the immigrant ship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barque Agnes passed Cape Northumberland light at 2 a.m., and then steered W. by N. half N. to 3 a.m., then N.W. for fifteen minutes, then N.W. and by W. till 5, when she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The H. R. H. S. Co.'s steamer Maitland was announced to leave on her usual trip to Newcastle at 11 o'clock last night, but owing to the weather being at the time very tempestuons, her departure was postponed till…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The barque Agnes, bound from Sydney to Adelaide, with a cargo of coal went ashore this morning at 5 o'clock, in Macdonnell Bay, close to Carpenter's rocks. The ship's boat was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The barque Agnes passed Cape Northumberland light at 2 a.m., and then steered W. by N. half N. to 3 a.m., then N.W. for fifteen minutes, then N.W. and by W. till 3, when she…
Continued on Trove, page 105 →The coasts of Australia have been the scenes of many disastrous Shipwrecks for the last three months, the weather having been boisterous and severe all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR correspondent at Newcastle informs us that the Government steamer Ajax arrived in that port yesterday (Monday) afternoon from Port Stephens, bringing intelligence of the total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is many years since we had such a succession of heavy gales. For ten days the wind has raged with more or less force, at times increasing almost to a hurricane, at others falling to a moderate breeze,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A telegram from Wollongong was received in. Sydney on Saturday last, to the effect that the steamer Blackwall was wrecked at Shellharbour, midway between Wollongong and Kiama. It appears that an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELHADO AND CURTIS.—Since our last report business in the Share market has been quiet and transactions very limited. The arrival last week of the Californian and Suez mails has, however, caused a better feeling the news being of a pacific character;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TOTAL WRECK OF THE GELTWOOD—ALL HANDS DRWONED.— The South Australian Register of July 7 reocrds as follows:— The Geltwood, barque, from Liverpool to Melbourne, is a total wreck twelve miles south of Rivoli Bay. Three dead bodies have…
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