SHIPPING NEWS

19th Century Extracts from Various Newspapers..... Losses, Collisions, Shipwrecks, Foundering and Accidents etc: Arson, Piracy, Mutiny, Cannibalism etc Campaigns against Pirates etc Court Cases with a Maritime Flavour Emigrant Shipping Foreign Government Vessels ie not GB Government Appointments (sample): Harbour Masters, Customs, Pilots etc. Miscellaneous Items Royal Navy - an assortment of various items related to the RN - see also Survey. Seamen - Misc Items - see also legislation Merchant Shipping Legislation, Seamen, Masters, Quarantine etc Merchant Shipping Movements and Intelligence (Sample) maybe more to come Sail Shipping Steam Shipping Slave Trade The South Seas - see also Surveying Survey vessels and Surveying etc. Technology Trade ^ back to top ^ Losses and Accidents etc: The Wreck Of The Steamer Ajax - 1854 Algerine ashore on Big Manly Point - 1851 Loss of All Serene with 21 Passengers and Crew - 1864 Destruction of the Royal Mail Steamer Amazon - 1851/2 Amity - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Ann - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Loss Of The US Steamer Arctic, following collision with Vesta - 1854 Ashburton - Fire - 1855 Baldor - Collision with unknown vessel - 1846 Loss of the Beaver - 1851 Beliza - Shipwreck In The China Seas - 1854 Loss of Bencoolen - with list of those who lost their lives - 1846 Bordeaux - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Wreck of the Barque Brighton - 1855 Loss of the Brig Sarah and Schooner Castlereagh - 1848 The Loss of the Emigrant Ship Cataraquie - 1845 Collision - Champion v. Melbourne - 1855 Missing Steamer - City Of Glasgow - 1854 Loss of the schooner Coolangatta - 1846 Countess of Wilton - lost when going out of the harbour of Papiete - 1845 Loss of The American Ship Delphos - 1846 Loss of the cutter Domain - 1846 Wreck of the Schooner Dundee Merchant - 1846 Wreck of the Eleanor - 1846 Shipwreck - Elizabeth and Will Watch - 1846 Loss of the Schooner Emma Sherratt - 1850 Collision Between the Steamers Pelican and Emu - 1855 Loss Of The P & O Co. SV "Pacha" following collision with P & O Co. SV Erin (inc. list of those missing) - 1851 Flora - Wreck - 1855 Loss of the Frances Walker, and Sultana - 1854 Wreck of the Francis Spaight (inc. list of persons drowned) - 1846 George Buckham - Loss Of The Barque - 1851 Golden Mirror - Loss - 1855 Legalized Slavery - Coolie ship Grimanazee - account of 650 passengers being Abandoned - 1855 Schooner Gypsy - Accident - Loss of master overboard - 1850 Heroine, Emigrant Ship, Shipwreck at Lyme Regis, Dorset - 1852 Heroine - Loss in the Torres Straits - 1846 Wreck of The Hiram - 1854 Danish Vessel Hiram - Shipwreck In The China Seas - 1854 Hugh Matthie - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Loss of the "Indian," Indiaman - 1850 Loss of the American Whaler Iris - 1855 Loss of the Schooner Isabella - 1846 Loss of the Brig Islay - 1844 Loss Of The Barque Jane Gifford - 1844 Investigation into the Causes of Shipwreck of the Emigrant Ship John - 1855 Shipwreck of a Dutch Indiaman - John Hendrik - 1845 Brig Jose Maria - Supposed To Be Lost - 1844 Wrecks of a Julia - 1864 Lady Nugent - Boat Accident - loss of Master and boy - 1851 Tenassarim - Visit to Mauritius to rescue survivors of the Letitia - 1846 Loss of the American Ship Lightfoot - 1855 Lightning - Disasters Reported from the Heads - 1855 Wrecked ?? - The Lord Auckland - 1847 Loss of The Barque Lord Eldon - 1844 Wreck of the Lydia - 1847 Macon - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay - Margaret - 1846 Marianne - Shipwreck In The China Seas - 1854 Loss of the Brig Mary of Liverpool - 1849 9 (Date of published report) Loss Of The Barque Mary Catherine - 1846 The Loss of the Barque Mary White by fire - 1851 Malay - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Mariam - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Wrecks on King's Island - the Whistler and Maypo - 1855 Collision At Sea - Champion v. Melbourne - 1855 Loss of the Steam Ship Mercury - 1855 Loss Of The Schooner Minerva - 1849 Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay - Mona - 1846 Ship Monongabela, of New Bedford - 1854 Loss of the Screw Steam Ship Morna - 1855 Nancy - Disasters Reported from the Heads - 1855 The Nestor Wreck - 1855 Loss Of The Novelty - 1851 Emigrant Ship Ocean Monarch Burnt at Sea - 1848 Oceanus - Collision and Loss of Life in the Channel off Start Point - 1854 Loss of the Opalia - 1851 Loss Of The P & O Co. SV "Pacha" following collision with P & O Co. SV Erin - 1851 Burning Of The " Palestine " - 1844 Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay - Palestine - 1846 Collision Between the Steamers Pelican and Emu - 1855 Loss of the Peruvian - 1846 Loss of the Phoenix - 1852 Wreck Of The Pilot - 1850 Loss of the Planet - 1855 Polly Hopkins - on the Oyster bank - 1854 Loss of the Prima Donna - 1846 The Loss of the Prince George - 1846 Prince Of The Seas - Ashore - 1855 Wrecks of a Steamer Rainbow, and Three Sailing Vessels with the Loss of Ten Lives - 1864 Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay - 1846 Cutter Resolution Upset - Life Lost - 1844 Wreck Of The Brig Richard Dart - 1849 (Inc. list of survivors). Collision at Sea - Schooner Robert and the Hunter Wreck of the ship Sir Robert Peel - 1847 Rosebud - Disasters Reported from the Heads - 1855 Loss of the Brig Sarah and Schooner Castlereagh - 1848 Vessel "Ship of War" - Disasters Reported from the Heads - 1855 Shipwrecks in Algoa Bay Sophia - 1846 Wreck of the Spirit of the Ocean - 1866 Loss of the Squatter - 1846 Loss of the Frances Walker, and Sultana - 1854 Surat Merchant - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 Collision between the steamer Thistle and cutter Back Swan - 1846 Thomas Chadwick - Shipwreck In The China Seas - 1855 Wreck of the Tyrian - 1851 Wreck of the Valentine Helicar - 1855 Loss Of The US Steamer Arctic, following collision with Vesta - 1854 Wreck of the Yacht Wanderer - 1851 Wrecks on King's Island - the Whistler and Maypo - 1855 Shipwrecks Elizabeth and Will Watch - 1846 Wreck of Ship William Laytin - 1855 William Wilson - Mauritius Shipping - Gales - 1844 William Scott, master of the Young Queen drowned - 1846 Wrecks of a Woolloomooloo - 1864 ^ back to top ^ Arson, Piracy, Mutiny, Cannibalism etc Amelia - Massacre of officers by Crew - 1848 Canton Packet - Charges of Arson and Piracy - 1846 The melancholy fate of the Sydney whaler Cape Packet - 1846 Piracy - Dreadful Slaughter onboard Dutch war schooner Chamelion - 1846 Elizabeth - Account of Loss of Chief Officer and one of the crew - 1846 Piratical Seizure Of The Schooner Helen - 1850 The Paul Jones - Mutiny - 1846 Cutter "Sisters" - Massacre at the Island of Marree - 1844 ^ back to top ^ Campaigns Blockade of Buceo - 1845 Operations of the Fleet against the Sultan of Borneo circa 1846 Proceedings Of The Squadron On The Coast Of Borneo - 1846 Destruction Of The Piratical Squadron Of Shap-ng-tsai - 1849 Spanish Expedition Against the Pirates - 1848 ^ back to top ^ Court Cases Important to Emigrants - emigrant ship Arabian - 1855 Caroline - Unseaworthy Ship - 1846 Donaldson v Ship Velocity - 1844 Eliza - Police Court, Sydney NSW - 1853 Elvira - Shameful Treatment of Passengers - 1855 How Ships are Lost in a Storm - Flora Kerr - 1855 The Golden Era - Misconduct of the Captain - 1854 Grange - Cruelty On Board Ship - 1846 Hamlet - Failed to issue Limejuice in accordance with legislation - 1846 The Hugh Walker Emigrant Ship - Her Provisions - 1855 Kestrel - Manslaughter Charges - 1845 Barque Macquarie - Master William Campbell Prosecuted for Selling Warlike Stores to the Natives - 1847 Desertion and Capture Of Seamen - Nabob - 1854 Nashwauk - Open Courts of Enquiry - 1855 Ocean - An Interesting Case of Bottomry - 1846 Orwell - Taxation of the Defendant's Bill of Costs - 1848 Rajah Wallie - Police Court, Sydney NSW - 1853 The Seahorse - Boyd v. The Royal Exchange Insurance Company - 1847 Seringapatam - Punishment Of Seamen - 1846 Woodlark - Revolt on the High Seas - 1845 The Cases of the Felicidade and the Echo - Regina V. Serva and Others - Slave Trade - 1846 Taxation of Bill - 1848 ^ back to top ^ Emigrant Ships The Emigrant Ship Artemisia - 1848 Reported Breaches of the Passengers Act to the House of Lords - Aden, Concord, Aden, John Munn, Waverley, Lysander, Thomas Arbuthnot, William Morris, Thetis, Earl Grey, Sobraon, James Gibb, Inconstant, General Palmer, Manchester, Ramilies, Lloyds, Mary Anne and Harbinger - 1850 Athlete - Irregularity in an Immigrant Ship - 1855 The Havering - 1849 The emigrant ship William Hammond - 1855 ^ back to top ^ Foreign Government Vessels ie not GB French Naval Stations with details of vessels - 1846 Bucephalie at New Caledonia - 1844 FNS Cuvier & Panama - Missing - 1848 His Swedish Majesty's frigate Eugenie - Plymouth - 1853 Juno to be bought by the French to replace the Phaeton - 1846 Loss of a French Man-Of-War Steamer Le Papin - 1845 French corvette Le Rhin at Sydney - 1846 The United States Exploring Expedition - Visit to Sydney - 1845 Capt Duncan N Ingraham, USN - 1854 ^ back to top ^ Government Appointments (sample): Harbour Masters, Customs, Pilots etc. Harbour Masters - Port of London - 1848 Appointment of Customs Officers, NSW - 1846 Encroachment of the Sea at the Pilot Station - 1846 Table of Light Dues on vessels entering the harbours of Port Macquarrie and Newcastle harbours - 1844 Tables Of Rates Upon Vessels At The Port Of Sydney - Pilotage - 1844 ^ back to top ^ Miscellaneous Items Ariel with merchandise etc for the RC Mission - 1846 Bright Planet - Problems Rounding the Horn - 1845 Carleton - a Fortunate Purchase - 1849 Commercial Navies of the European States - 1845 Cornubia - Sale - 1848 Ethiope - African Expedition from Liverpool - 1847 Exportation Of Gunpowder - 1845 Falkland Island - 1845 Maria Somes - Passage Sydney to Calcutta - 1844 Maria Somes - Dreadful Gale Encountered - 1846 Marine Insurance - 1844 Memorable Case of Martin Coexta (Koszta) & Capt Duncan N Ingraham, USN - 1854 Miscellaneous Snippets - 1848 Moreton Bay - 1844-46 Phantom Ship - 1846 Rollers at St Helena - 1846 Sailors' Home - Sydney - 1855 Shortage of Work for Master Mariners - 1847 Tristan de Acuna - 1845 The United States Exploring Expedition - Visit to Sydney - 1845 UK Customs' Duties by Port - 1845 Walks on the Wharfs at Sydney - 1846 A New Whaling Ground - 1848 American whalers at sea - 1st June, 1843 Waterview Bay Dry Dock - 08 Jan 1855 St George's Ensign - inappropriately displayed - 1845 Widow of Edward Wilbraham Bell - 08 Jan 1855 Movements Arrivals at Sydney - 1843 Departures from Sydney - 1843 A Sample of Miscellaneous Movements 1846 & 1848 Arrivals and Departures - Port of Sydney, 28 Dec 1852, to 26 Jan 1853 ^ back to top ^ Royal Navy Index - an assortment of various items. HMS Beagle - Service - 1844 HMS Birkenhead - Launched HMS Birkenhead - Loss - 1852 HMS Calliope - Report of Proceedings off New Zealand - 1848 HMS Calliope Sails for England - 1848 HMS Columbine and HMS Fury v. The Pirates - 1850 HMS Dauntless - Trials - 1848 HMS Dido - Concern for loss of crew of the Vanguard - maybe murdered by natives - 1947. French And British Stations Compared - 1846 Indisposition Of Officers [Appointed] To Serve On The Coast Of Africa - 1846 American Navy and the Manning of the RN - 1845 Death of Captain Marryat, C.B. - 1848 The Wrecking of HMS Polyphemus - 1856 Retiring Allowance for Captains in the Royal Navy - 1845. Return of Persons Flogged - 1848 Loss Of HMS Reynard - 1851 Wreck Of HMS Royal George - clearing of old wreck - 1844 Screw Trials The Loss of HMS Shark at Jutland and award of a VC to her Commanding Officer The Squadron Of Evolution - 1846 The Squadron of Evolution at Cove - 1846 Men of the Royal Navy to be allowed Extra Rations of Tea and Sugar in lieu of the Tot - 1848 ^ back to top ^ Seamen: Distressed Seamen - 1842 Merchant Seamen discharged n Port Jackson - 1846 Seamen's Registers - 1846 Destitute Sailor - 1845 ^ back to top ^ Merchant Shipping Legislation, Quarantine etc Anti-Crimping Legislation - An Act for the protection of seamen entering on board merchant ships - 1845 More on Anti-Crimping Legislation - An Act for the protection of seamen entering on board merchant ships in New South Wales - 1847 New Emigration Act, each emigrant vessel will be obliged to carry a fire engine on board (Oct 1852) Fog Signals - Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. - 1855 Appointment of a Board for Inspecting Steam Vessels &c., Moreton Bay - 1851 Board for the inspection - Regulation of Sea-Going Steam Boats carrying Passengers - 1848 - NSW Steam Navigation - Introduction of Water-tight Compartments ; Lifeboats ; Exhibition of Lights ; Fire hose - 1846 New Steam Navigation Regulations For Victoria - Navigation Lights - 1855 Abstract of an Act for the Regulation of Steam Navigation and for requiring Sea-going Vessels to carry Boats - 1847 Regulations for Steam Vessels Carrying Lights - 10 March 1848 - NSW Amended Regulations Respecting the Lights To Be Exhibited by Steam Vessels - 1848 Steamer's Lights to Prevent Collision - 1848 Government Bill Requiring sea going vessels to carry boats and to be Partitioned - 1846 Voluntary Examining of Masters and Mates in the Merchant Service - 1845 General Certificates of Competency or Service - Notice to Masters and Mates of Home Trade Passenger Ships - 1855 The Mercantile Marine Act 1850 - Improving the Condition of Masters, Mates, and Seamen, and maintaining Discipline in the Merchant Service - 1850 Merchant Seamen - Register of Seamen - 1850 The Merchant Seamen's Fund - 1854 Navigation Laws - An Act to amend the laws in force for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation - 1850 The New Law on Merchant Shipping - 1855 Merchant Shipping - Registration of Vessels - 1855 The Passengers' Act, 1849 - An Act for regulating the carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels - 1849 Passengers' Act Amendment - 1849 Proclamation On The Passengers' Act - 1850 The Passengers' Act - Rules concerning Passengers - 1850 Act to Amend the Laws for the Payment on Pilotage on Shipping and to Secure the Payment of Harbour and Other Dues on Shipping - 1847 The Pilot Service - Board of Investigation - 1855. Pilotage Fees Paid to Pilots - Port Jackson - 1845-8 Pilots And Steam Vessels - 1849 Postage Act - Caution To Masters Of Vessels - 1855 Powers of Colonial Courts, Trial of prisoners who have committed offences at sea - 1850 Quarantine Regulations - 1855 The Absurdities of Quarantine - 1855 The Doom Of Quarantine - 1850 Quarantine Station - Newcastle, NSW - 1851 Registration Of Colonial Ships - 1855 First Report from the Select Committee on Shipwrecks - 1844 Report on he Admiralty Register of Wrecks for 1853 Signal Lights For Steam-ships - Letter - 1848 Sir James Graham's Act - recovery of wages - 1844. Return of the number of vessels cleared inwards and outwards - Sydney, NSW year ending 31 Dec 1854 Tonnage Admeasurement - 1855. Shipwreck Statistics within 10 miles of the British coastline ^ back to top ^ Merchant Shipping Movements and Intelligence (Sample) 1843 - Arrivals at Sydney ^ back to top ^ Sail Shipping The Alice Maud - Improved Sail Handling and Aiming for Faster Turnaround in Port - 1855 The Coming Clipper - The Blue Jacket - 1855 New Colonial Shipping - 1846 American Built Clippers for the French Government - 1855 Apprehension of Deserters - 1855 The schooners Anne ; and Mary and Rose - Scurvy - 1855 The Light of the Age - 1855 The Lightning - 1854 Barque Lord Auckland, Journal of a passage from Sydney to North Australia by Captain Brown - 1847 Racers of the Deep - The Marco Polo and the Kent - 1855 The Voyage of The Marco Polo - 1853 The Voyage to Australia of the 16 ton Lugger "Mystery" Newlyn, Cornwall (and home) - 1855 Schomberg - Clipper Ship - 1855 The Speedy - Bridport Clipper - 1854-5 The Barque Tasmania - Rio de Janeiro, 2nd January, 1849 Numbers of Ships Built in The Colony [ New South Wales ] - 1836-445 Stirlingshire - New Zealand Built - 1848 Winifred - Launch of Iron Ship - 1854 ^ back to top ^ Steam Shipping Our Steam Marine - A brief History of Steam in Australia 1831-1851 Competition between Steamers on Hunter River Trade Ends - 1846 The Steam Ship Alma - Auxiliary Steam Engines becoming common - 1855 Australasian Steam Navigation Company - 1851 Launch of a Screw Steamer - Borysthene - 31 Dec 1855 Arrival Of The Steam-ship Cleopatra - 1853 Corsair - The Steamer - Bound for China - 1845-6 The Donald M'kay - Aug 1855 Early Steam Power The Grafton - Mar 1855 The Great Britain - Steamer - An account of a voyage - 1846 Hunter River Steam Navigation Company - 1846 Launches of Ships in Liverpool - Jourdain, Fusilier, Retriever - 1855 The Steamer Keera (1851) Lady Bird Leichardt - River Steamer - 1855 Launch and Trials of The Phoenix Steamer - Jun 1846 The Phoenix - Safe in Darling Harbour and now refittted - Nov 1851 Loss of the Phoenix - May 1852 Thames-Built Steam Packet - Prince Arthur - 1851 Particulars of the Iron Steam Ship Pottinger - 1846 Replacement for the Sophia Jane - Steamer - 1846 Launch Of The Vimiera - 1851 Steamers - Waterman, Kangaroo, Shamrock - 1846 The Steamship William Denny - 1854 Steam-ship Wonga Wonga - 1855 ^ back to top ^ Slave Trade Anti-Slavery Patrol Statistics - 1845 Slave Trade - 1846 The Slave Trade - US Cruisers The Slave Trade - 1846 The Slave Trade - Statistics 1840 - 1847 The Slave Trade - 1848 Slave Vessel Glamorgan - 1855 Maid of Islay - English Steamer Mistaken For A Slaver - c 1849 ^ back to top ^ South Seas - inc. Whaling etc From the South Seas - 1847 News from the South Seas Islands - 1848 News from Tahiti - 1848 More News from Tahiti - 1850 Islands in the Pacific - 1846 Shipping in the South Sea Islands - 1847 The New Colony of the Labuan - 1847 Amelia - Horrible Massacre - 1848 The Whale Fishery - 1850 A New Whaling Ground - 1848 ^ back to top ^ Survey vessels and Surveying etc. Booby Island - 1850 Bramble at Moreton Bay. December 24, [1847]- Wreck of the Brig Mary. HMS Bramble - Surveying - Torres' Straits - 1847 The Officers Of H.M.S. Fly - 1847 Gabo Island - HMS Bramble - Search for runaway convicts - 1847 Light-Houses - Abstract of an Act to provide for the payment of dues towards the maintenance of Light Houses at Gabo Island and Cape Otway respectively - 1847 The Marine Barometer And The Weather - 1847 Notes Among The Islands Of The Pacific - 1850 Notice To Mariners - Beagle - Survey Of Bass's Straits - 1844 Notice to Mariners - 1849 Report of Proceedings - H.M.S. North Star's Survey of New Zealand - 1846 Cruise Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake Reefs.- Notice to Mariners - 1847 Sailing Directions For Matalina Harbour Sailing Directions - Great Barrier Reef - 1844 HM Ships Rattlesnake & Bramble - Surveying of the Coast of Australia - 1848 The Surveying Squadron - Torres Straits - 1845 Port William - Falkland Islands - 1845 The Kinnear Bottle Papers - 1843 The Late Captain Weddell - 1843]. Dinner to the Officers of HMS Fly - 1844 Notice To Mariners - 1845 The Caroline Isles And Ascension - 1844 The Needles - Survey - 1847 ^ back to top ^ Technology Steam and Gas Without Coal - 1851 Iron-Masted Vessel - 1851 Biscuits Made By Machinery - 1850 Mainmast joined with Marine Glue - Curacoa - 1848 A New Fog Trumpet - 1855 A New Life Boat - Newcastle, NSW - 1855 A New Diving Bell - 1855 The Peril Indicator - 1848 Preservation of Life in Cases of Shipwreck - Cork Mattresses - 1848 Preservation of Timber - 1847 Transmission of the Queen's Speech by Electric Telegraph - 1848 Revolution Counter - 1847 Men-of-war Screw Steam-vessels - 1848 Screw v. Paddle - 1847 Ships Cooking Galley distils water - 1852 The Sub-Marine Telegraph - English Channel - August 1850 Telegraph From Melbourne To Port Phillip Heads - 1855 Walker's New Mode Of Marine Propelling - May 18, 1843. ^ back to top ^ Trade Export Of Horses - 1844 Tallow - 1843-4 The Tallow Trade - 1843 Australian Tallow - 1842-4 Wool - 1844