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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1849

4 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

Dreadful Occurrence on Board an Irish Steamer. [From the Belfast News Leiter.]

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1849 · page 3

The steamer Londonderry, Captain Johnson, one of the vessels belonging to the North-west of Ireland Steam-packet Company, and at present plying between Sligo and Liverpool, left…

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Shipwreck and Melancholy Loss of Life. (From the Moreton Bay Courier, May 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 16 June 1849 · page 3

We have a painful duty to perform in this day's issue, in recording a series of casualties on the coast during the late gales, by which it is estimated that about twenty-two of our…

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[From Our Files Per Late Arrivals.] Dreadful Wreck of an Emigrant Ship.—nearly 200 Lives Lost. (From Bell's Messenger, March 5.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1849 · page 2

With the deepest regret we have to record one of the most frightful catastrophes that probably ever occurred on this part of the English coast, viz., the total loss of a large emigrant…

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British Extracts. the Wreck of an Emigrant Ship Amongst Icebergs.—dreadful Loss of Life. (From Bell's Messenger, June 4.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1849 · page 2

The tidings of the total wreck of the Hannah, with nearly 200 emigrants, bound to Quebec, from Newry, was reported yesterday at Lloyd's, the particulars having been received by the…

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