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Forum: Accy Photos 17-11-2005, 15:21
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Posted By Tealeaf
Re: SS Accrington

Well, after all this time I finally picked up a report on the trial after the Captain & 1st Mates murder.....here's the link. There is also a secondary link to a passengers letter, well worth...
Forum: Accy Photos 02-04-2004, 15:28
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Posted By Tealeaf
Re: SS Accrington

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/attachments/accy-photos/626d1080919648-ss-accrington-59_1ss.accy.jpg

I got so peeved off with not getting the SS Accy piccy from ebay that I thought I'd barrow...
Forum: Accy Photos 30-01-2004, 16:56
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Posted By Tealeaf
.....Looks like by this voyage things had...

.....Looks like by this voyage things had quietened down a bit. This time, there were only 12 deaths, all children under the age of 3. Statistically, this is somewhat unusual in so far as allowing...
Forum: Accy Photos 30-01-2004, 16:37
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Posted By Tealeaf
N/PAP: Canturbury Provincial Gazette Mon 28 Sept,...

N/PAP: Canturbury Provincial Gazette Mon 28 Sept, 1863. Vol 10, No 16, pg 165 (Held at Cant Public Lib, Chch).

Commissioners Report. Accrington.

The Commissioners were much pleased with the...
Forum: Accy Photos 30-01-2004, 14:29
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Posted By Tealeaf
6 men charged with robbery.....someone nicked the...

6 men charged with robbery.....someone nicked the jambuttys!
Forum: Accy Photos 30-01-2004, 14:25
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Posted By Tealeaf
Arrival of Accrington The Press Monday...

Arrival of Accrington
The Press Monday September 7th 1863

The clipper ship Accrington arrived off the Peninsula on Friday evening, but was not signalled at Lyttelton till Saturday morning. She...
Forum: Accy Photos 29-01-2004, 15:34
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Posted By Tealeaf
Well, the image can be found on the National...

Well, the image can be found on the National Libary of New Zealand website (not Gallery, as I saud earlier).....but, just reading through it all again I've just realised there is nothing in there...
Forum: Accy Photos 29-01-2004, 08:38
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Posted By Tealeaf
Hi Darby, My language above is a bit...

Hi Darby,

My language above is a bit confusing....the Accy painting is signed, yes.....but it is not dated! Thats what I meant to say!
Forum: Accy Photos 28-01-2004, 16:20
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Posted By Tealeaf
...But just to return to our earlier "Accrington"...

...But just to return to our earlier "Accrington" The painting you see at the very top of the thread is by an artist called Antonio Jacobsen, who was originally Danish but subesquently moved to the...
Forum: Accy Photos 28-01-2004, 12:27
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Posted By Tealeaf
Hi Darby The "other" Accrington was a ship...

Hi Darby

The "other" Accrington was a ship built in 1910 for one of the railway companies - yes, they had ships as well as trains (Just as the evil one Branson has trains has well as planes). It...
Forum: Accy Photos 27-01-2004, 12:54
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Views: 9,833
Posted By Tealeaf
No. 691: FRANCOIS ARAGO AND WATT by...

No. 691:
FRANCOIS ARAGO AND WATT


by John H. Lienhard
Click here for audio of Episode 691.

Today, a French scientist tries to redirect his country. The University of Houston's College of...
Forum: Accy Photos 27-01-2004, 12:39
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Posted By Tealeaf
Hells Bells! I did'nt even know there was an...

Hells Bells! I did'nt even know there was an Arago Street in Accy........where about's is it? You'll have to forgive me...I left Church in 1974 & although I'm back every 2/3 weeks I don't get about...
Forum: Accy Photos 26-01-2004, 13:48
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Posted By Tealeaf
Thanks to Atarah for the above!

Thanks to Atarah for the above!
Forum: Accy Photos 26-01-2004, 13:41
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Posted By Tealeaf
"horror voyage on the ship "Accrington" ...

"horror voyage on the ship "Accrington"

Investigations reveal that the "Accrington" once went on a vogage that went horribly wrong, when it was ferrying troops to India in 1859.
When it arrived...
Forum: Accy Photos 21-01-2004, 16:53
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Posted By Tealeaf
I put that behind me years ago...

I put that behind me years ago...
Forum: Accy Photos 20-01-2004, 16:36
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Posted By Tealeaf
..like the story of the captain & senior officers...

..like the story of the captain & senior officers getting poisoned by the crew. Fatally.
Forum: Accy Photos 20-01-2004, 15:55
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Views: 9,833
Posted By Tealeaf
...there have been at least 2 ships named...

...there have been at least 2 ships named Accrington; the above, an iron hulled square rigger of the latter part of the 19c which worked the UK/OZ/NZ routes, and HMS Accrington which was a WW2 convoy...
Forum: Accy Photos 20-01-2004, 15:43
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Posted By Tealeaf
SS Accrington

Here's a photo of Accrington....the original painting is with the New Zealand National Gallery....A little bit different from the usual, but's there's a good story there to...
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