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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1854

3 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

The Wreck of the "Annie Jane." (From the Leeds Mercury, Oct. 15.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 January 1854 · page 4

The following additional particulars in reference to this unfortunate casualty, briefly noticed in our last, are supplied by a correspondent:— The crew numbered forty-five men, inclusive of…

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Frightful Shipwreck of the Ship Lady Evelyn.—250 Lives Lost. (From Bell's Messenger, Dec. 5.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 3 May 1854 · page 4

The details of another fearful catastrophe at sea were made known on Tuesday at Lloyd's, viz., the wreck of the British ship Lady Evelyn, Captain M'Clellan, commander, while on a…

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British Extracts. Dreadful Shipwreck and Loss of Life. (From the Times, May 11.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1854 · page 4

During the present year we have had to record a series of melancholy shipwrecks, together with an awful loss of life, but the loss of the American ship Powhattan, which we are about…

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