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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
7 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
This ill-fated vessel left Hongkong for Sydney with 327 Chinese passengers, and on the night of 30th September was totally, wrecked on the Island of Rossel. Captain Pennard, her, commander, and eight of his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The "Terrific Register" would hardly supply the details of a worse catastrophe than that of the wreck of the emigrant ship Pomona, on the Irish coast, at the close of last week. A new ship of fifteen hundred tons, with a freight of above four hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—A report having gained circulation that the portions of wreck seen by Captains Griffin and Adams near Bird Island is that of the ketch Courier, Captain Sullivan, for the purpose of allaying any unnecessary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We continue from the Empire of Monday, received by train on Tuesday morning, the important intelligence brought by the mail steamer Bombay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney papers of Thursday contain full details respecting the calamity of the Admella, and the fearful sufferings of those who were on board of her at the time she struck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The latest American advices put us to possession of some additional facts relative to the loss of the Argo, in Trepassy Bay, on the coast of Newfoundland, but we require additional information before we can form a decided opinion upon the casualty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[The following acoount of the massacre of the crew and burning of the schooner Pearl, of Anatam, is politely furnished by a lady whose hnsband was a passenger on board the Clarence Packet, and was received by one of…
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