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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1847

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Further Particulars of the Wreck of the "Sovereign." (From the Moreton Bay Correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald, March 29.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 31 March 1847 · page 3

March 24.—Fearing that you may not have received the accounts forwarded per schooners Jane and William, of the melancholy loss of the Sovereign, I have forwarded the following…

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Wreck of the Steamer Sovereign. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1847 · page 3

GENTLEMEN—Observing in your number of Saturday last a voluntary statement made by John M'Callum, before William Dawes, Esq., J.P., in Sydney, directly at variance…

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Sydney News. the Wreck of the Sovereign. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1847 · page 4

GENTLEMEN—In consequence of the erroneous statements which have appeared in several of the public prints relative to the causes of the wreck of the steamer Sovereign,…

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British Extracts. Destruction of the Steamer "Granauile" by Fire; and Awful Loss of Life

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 September 1847 · page 3

We copy from the Dublin Freeman, of Thursday, the 15th April, the following details of one of the most disastrous calamities at sea that has occurred for a long…

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