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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
7 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
The Hobart Town Courier, of the 22nd instant, says: —The chief and second officers of the Varna, a Glasgow vessel of 551 tons burthen, with twelve of her crew and one passenger arrived in this port last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Annie, barque, 470 tons. Captain Smyth, with a cargo of coals, bound to Point de Galle, proceeded down the harbour this day (Wednesday), at 4 a.m. in charge of pilot Jenkins, the wind at the time being from the S.S.E., and all plain sail set…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A correspondent, writing from Dundalk to the London Express (17th), thus refers to a lamentable wreck, with the loss of eleven lives:- It is my sad duty to record one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following letter, which we received by post on Tuesday, tells its own tale, of suffering and thankfulness:- To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favoured by Captain Malcolm with the following correspondence:- Harbour Master's Office Newcastle, September [?]rd 1858. Dear Sir—Last evening, at 9 o'clock, I was informed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the midst of the disasters and excitement which, by reason of the great flood, prevail in our city and the surrounding country, there came yesterday evening a most stunning shock of news from the Lower Mississippi, which in horror…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is known that the barqueTimandra, with a large number of lives on board (105), was lost on a sandspit of Keppel Bay The ship was in imminent danger, both from the accident that had occurred to her, and from the risk attendant on any attempt…
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