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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1856

11 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

The Wreck of the Reindeer on an Unknown Reef. (From the S. M. Herald, Jan. 12.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1856 · page 6

Captain Edward Storey has favored us with the following particulars of the loss of this fine ship:- I report the loss of the ship Reindeer, on…

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Loss of a Sardinian War Steamer

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 7

A Sardinian war steamer, which was bringing to Constantinople a great number of sick from the ambulance at Balaclava, has foundered, and all on…

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The Steamer Trade of the Hunter

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 April 1856 · page 1

The following letter from Mr. C. E. Jaques, the Morpeth agent of the A. S. N. Company, in reference to the steamer trade of the Hunter during the past week, ending Saturday, the 5th,…

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Wreck of the Crescent City

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 April 1856 · page 2

The United States Mail steamship Crescent City commanded by Captain A. G. Gray, left New York on the 3rd December, with passengers and cargo for New Orleans, via Havana…

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Trial Trip of the Persia, the Largest Steamer in the World. (From the Times, January 11.) Glasgow, Wednesday Evening

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1856 · page 3

Yesterday the magnificent iron paddle steamship Persia, which has just been completed by Messrs. Robert Napier and Sons, for the Cunard Company, made her first trip in sea water, subsequent to the…

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New South Wales Steam Naviction-board. (From the Empire, May 17.) the Late Collision Between the Steamer Thistle, and the Schooner Fortitude. (Before the Chairman, H. H. Browne, Esq., J.P., W. S. Delo[?]tie, Esq., J.P. Browne, Esq., J.P.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 May 1856 · page 2

An Investigation was held yesterday, before the Steam Navigation Board, relative to the late collision between the steamer Thistle and the schooner Fortitude, on the morning of the 10th instant, which resulted in the loss…

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A Missing Steamer

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1856 · page 2

THE PACIPIC.—The most painful excitement has prevailed during the past week respecting the fate of the Pacific, which sailed from this port on the 23rd of January, with the mails for New York. She had not…

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Late English News. Fifteen Days' Latee News. Arrival or the "Champion of the Seas" and Steamer "Victoria," with News to the 8Th March

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 June 1856 · page 2

Russia concedes the litigated points.—Satisfactory prospects of peace—Arrival of the James Baines at Liverpool—Pacific speech of Count Orloff.—Suspension of hostilities…

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Wrecks at Newcastle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1856 · page 2

On the arrival of the Collaroy at Morpeth last evening, Captain Mulhall reported that the Storm King and the schooner Rover were driven [?]hore, by the rough weather, on the beach at…

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Original Correspondence. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury. Steamer "Paterson," Morpeth, 26th Nov., 1856

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1856 · page 2

GENTLEMEN—In your issue of the 25th instant I perceive a letter signed "Video," wherein, amongst other general charges against the H.R.N.S.N, Co's. steamers, one is brought specially against myself…

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A Steamer Lost in the Channel, and Upwards of Fifty Vessels Driven Ashore. (Morning Chronicle, Sept. 30.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1856 · page 2

The heavy equinoctial gales of Saturday and Sunday were severely felt in the Channel. The casualties among the shipping were, we regret to say, most disastrous both to life and property…

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