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224 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 12
Sir,—In the recent telegrams published in your paper concerning the loss of the Lovett Peacock, reference is made to the sails, and it is mentioned in this morning's message from Newcastle that had the vessel been well found she would never haye made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The leak in the steamer Adela has been stopped, and it is expected that she will be floated next tide. The City of Brisbane and Waratah, steamers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Your issue of the 21st instant, in an article upon hte "Atlas Company Engineering Works," contains a paragraph reflecting upon the workmanship of the steamer Kembla's boilers. As your reporter has been misinformed on…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Shortly after daybreak this morning, the firing of the signal guns, from the signal-station, Allen's Hill, announced that the services of the lifeboat were required; and in a little while it became known that a large…
Continued on Trove, page 1030 →The recent gales that have blown with extreme velocity on the coast of this colony have caused considerable destruction to shipping property, and, unfortunately, a melancholy loss of life. The restoring of telegraphic communication on the coast to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The brig Swallow, bound from Lyttelton to Newcastle, has been wrecked on Tory Channel. All hands were saved. The brig Akbar and the schooner Pelican went ashore at Timaru. The captain, his wife, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR Newcastle correspondent writes under data 1st July:—Another ghastly evidence of the fierceness of the gale which has visited this coast was brought to light yesterday afternoon, under the following…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some months ago the National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales awarded a premium for a design of a medal to be given by the society as a recognition of bravery displayed in resouing persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The police were unable to find the remains of the man reported to be lying on the beach near Morna Point, and returned last night at 11. The locality was wrongly described by the seamen who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Constable Lagerlow arrived in Kempsey, and was the bearer of a telegram, from T.R. Halt, Trial Bay, announcing the loss of the schooner Ellen in Trial Bay during the gale, with it, is supposed, all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—We notice a paragraph in yesterday's EVENING NEWS, "Washed Ashore," which might tend to imply a sufficient want of kindness on the part of Captain Alley, of the steamship Richmond, if not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR Newcastle correspondent writes under date July:—Another ghastly evidence of the fierceness the gale which has visited this coast was brought light yesterday afternoon, under the following [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Orient Company's steamship Lusitania arrived at midnight from Plymouth. She brings the following passengers:— FOR SYDNEY.—First Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. G…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There has been some frightfully heavy weather on the coast, and a barque, supposed to be the Malay, from Newcastle to Wellington, coal laden, is supposed to have been wrecked near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report was received to-day that the beach, near Pencarrow Head, is strewn wich the wreckage of a large ship, supposed to be either the Pareora or Pleione, from London No bodies have yet been found,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the last committee meeting of the National Shipwreck Relief Society of New South Wales a suggestion was thrown out, that a public presentation should take place, and that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Orient was launched yesterday at the yard of Messrs. John Elder and Co. She is one of the largest steamers built oil the Clyde for the Orient S.N. Co., trading between Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Orient was launched yesterday at the yard of Messrs, John Elder and Co. She is one of the largest steamers built on the Clyde for the Orient S.N. Co., trading between Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Particulars fuller than those given in our telegrams concerning the wreck of the btigantine Akbar on the coast of New Zealand have come to hand. A Press message from Timaru, dated the 30th June, states that shortly after 4…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gamaru, June 20.—A terrible sea was rolling into the bay all day the English barque Gloria put to sea for safety about 5 o'clock. About 8 o'clock the ketch Franklyn Bellc, which was lying under the lee of the Normanby Wharf,…
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