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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

511 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 26

The Steamer Fernmount

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1884 · page 6

Were it not that most of the harbours in the colony are of such a nature as to render their navigation dangerous, owing to shifting sand banks across the entrances, there is not the least doubt that the trade of the colony would have expanded a very much…

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The Wreck of the Syria; Levuka. May 16

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1884 · page 1049

The, perhaps, largest full-rigged ship that hu ever come to Fiji has been totally wrecked on the point of the Naselai Reef, about midway between Bare and Levoks. She was the Syria, from Calcutta, and bound for Suva with a large…

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The M.M. Steamer Yarra

Evening News · Monday 2 June 1884 · page 4
Also in The Daily Telegraph

PORT SAID, May 29.— The Messageries [?] s.s. Yarra, which left Melbourne on April 26, passed here to-day, homewards, four days in advance of contract time…

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The M.m. Steamer Yarra. Port Said, May 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 June 1884 · page 7

The Messageries Maritimes S.S. Yarra, which left Melbourne on the 26th April, passed here to-day, homewards, tour days in advance of contract time…

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The Nyngan Murder. the Supposed Murderer Suicides. He Jumps Overroard From a Steamer. Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 2 June 1884 · page 4

Last night while the steamer Adelaide was between Cape Nelson and Julia Percy Island, near Portland, Suttaro, the foreigner who was arrested in South Australia on a charge of having…

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Sunday Steamer to Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 June 1884 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday. --The Hunter River Steamship Company have arranged for one of their steamers, the Lady Bowen, to leave Sydney every Sunday night for Newcastle, and for the…

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The Dynamite Crusade. Australia Threatened. Precautionary Measures. Suspected Mail Steamer. the Protection of Sydney Public Buildings

Evening News · Tuesday 3 June 1884 · page 2

That ill news does indeed travel fast, has been strikingly demonstrated by the fact that the public here has had barely time to recover from the consternation caused by the cable reports of the…

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Dynamite Outrages. Threatened Invasion of Dynamite Emissaries. The American Mail Steamer to be Searched. Sydney Public Buildings to be Protected

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 June 1884 · page 5

Information has been received by the Government of the threatened in vision of dynamite emissaries from America. Some time since the detective police of San Francisco communicated…

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The Steamer Collaroy. Another Attempt to Float Her

Evening News · Thursday 5 June 1884 · page 3

It will be remembered that some three years ago the steamer Collaroy, belonging to the A.S.N. Co., ran ashore on the coast near the Narrabeen lakes while on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney. The…

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The Dynamite Alarm. Searching the Mail Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 June 1884 · page 5

The San Francisco mail steamer City of Sydney arrived in Port Jackson yesterday morning. Off Fort Denison a police party, consisting of Sub- Inspectors Camphin and Donohoe, with four as…

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Floating a Wreck

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 7 June 1884 · page 14

IT will be remembered that some three years ago the steamer Collaroy, belonging to the A.S.N. Co., ran ashore on the coast near the Narrabeen lakes while on a voyage from Newcastle to Sydney. The…

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Wreck Ok the Steamer State Ok Florida. One Hundred and Thirty-five Persons Perished

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 June 1884 · page 6

Father Point, Quebec. May 7.-- The steamship Titania, front Glasgov, passed inward this morning. She has on board 21 of the crew of the steamship State of Florida, that vessel having been…

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The Wreck of the Syria

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 June 1884 · page 8

Additional information regarding the wreck of the coolie ship Syria came to hand from Fiji yesterday; but, unfortunately, it only confirms the previous accounts of the great loss of life. The…

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Supposed Loss of a Schooner

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--The schooner Cushat Doo, timber laden, trading to Sydney, and owned by Mr Muirhead, of Bullock Island, Newcastle, is, it is feared, lost with the captain and crew. Sue…

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Shipping Disaster. a Coasting Schooner Lost. Newcastle

Evening News · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 5

It is feared that the schooner Cushat Doo (Captain Thomas Owen) has been lost with all hands on the voyage from Bateman's Bay to Sydney. She was last seen off Five Islands…

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Accident to a Steamer. WOLLONGONG

Evening News · Wednesday 11 June 1884 · page 4

The Waratah Coal Company's steamer, Waratah (Captain M'Auley) was entering this port at at about 8 o'clock yesterday morning, when she struck with her bow against a submerged bolt of…

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Mail Steamer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 June 1884 · page 5

Suez, June 10.--The M.M. Company's Salazie passed here to-day outwards…

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Emigrant Steamer Abergeldie

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 5

Capetown, June 11.--The Orient emigrant s.s. Abergeldie left here yesterday for Sydney…

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Coasting Schooner Missing. (By Telegraph. From Our Correspondnet.) Newcastle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 14

IT is feared that the schooner Cushat Doo (Captain Thomas Owen) has been lost with all hands on the voyage from Bateman's Bay to Sydney. She was last soon off Five Islands…

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