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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
8 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
We have been favored with a letter written by a passenger on board the " Thistle," from which we take the following extracts:- Port Albert, December 24…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following account of the wreck of the steamer James Hartley, on the passage from Shanghai to Hongkong, is taken from the Overland Register of the 29th October. It was supplied to that journal by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was not till the divers succeeded lifting the starboard side of the quarter of the ship off the spot where it had fallon that they came to the gold. The bullion chest they found had shared the same fate as the ship, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following letter, giving the particulars of a vessel seen bottom upwards, on the Twofold Bay coast, and addressed to the Collector of Customs, has been forwarded to us for the information of the public generally:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The particulars of this catastrophe are derived from the Humboldt Times of 7th and 8th January. On Thursday, January 5th, at five p.m., qick reports of cannon were heard at Humboldt Bay. At ten o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Diamond, one of the steamers belonging to the Cork Navigation Company, was wrecked off St. David's Head, on the 28th of February, while on her way to Liverpool, and all o[?] board, numbering about fifty, were lost. An eye-witness…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About two o'clock on Monday last, the schooner Carello, bound for Sydney, laden with coal, attempted to leave the harbour with a fair north-west wind. There was a very heavy sea coming in at the time; and when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following report on the late shipwrecks and loss of life at Newcastle, drawn up by the Harbour Master, has been forwarded to the chairman of the Pilot Board in Sydney, and a copy being afterwards transmitted to…
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