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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
The Herald's city correspondent furnishes that journal with a lengthy account of the wreck of the Duncan Dunbar. He says:— The wreck of this favorite vessel will be heard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette of the 4th December reports at considerable length the concluding portion of the investigation respecting the loss of the ship Duncan Dunbar, Swanson, from London for Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail steamer Souchays, Captain Blick, arrived at the bar at 5.30 p.m., from Batavia, bringing English news to January 16. She made the passage hence to Koepang in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE loss of the London is the one great fact of absorbing interest in this month's mail news. It has already, we doubt not, created a sensation in these colonies, wherever the intelligence has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Alexandra is at Glenelg; reports Bombay arrived at the Sound on Sunday, and would leave next day. The London, steamer, was lost in the Bay of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The month of January, 1866, will be long remembered as one of disaster and sorrow. Buring the past three weeks nearly every day has brought tidings of wreek and loss of life to our shores. Amidst all these disasters,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In our last number we gave the melancholy details of the loss of the London steamer, with 220 lives; and we now add soma additional partioulars from the Home News of 26th January, for which we could not then find…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Barwon, steamer, which arrived here on Monday from Dunedin, brought, amongst other freight, twenty-two boxes gold-dust, each containing 1000 ounces. This gold was not placed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the courtesy of the proprietors, we are in receipt of an extra to the Clarence and Richmond Examiner, of Friday, 4th May, giving a full account of the loss of the fine steamship Urara, at the Clarence Heads, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The subjoined letter appears in the Arew York Times:— Memphis, Tuesday, Jan. 30.—The steamer Miami, which left this port on Saturday night, heavily loaded with freight, and crowded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Western Morning News gives the following account of the loss of this ship:— "During the heavy southerly gale that prevailed in the English Channel on Friday, March…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The survivors of the above catastrophe, consisting of the mate, second mate, and one seaman, arrived last evening by the Susannah Cuthbert. Mr. John Miller, the chief officer, has kindly furnished us with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Arizona arrived from Aspinwall." A fearful explosion occurred on board the English steamer European, at Aspinwall, on the 3rd instant, destroying the ship, and 400 feet of the wharf. The supposed cause…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of the most fearful gales that Newcastle has ever experienced began to blow there on Wednesday night, the wind being accompanied by heavy driving rain. All through Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Considerable anxiety prevailed throughout the city yesterday, for the safety of the A.S.N. Company's steamer Coonanbara, which was known to have left Newcastle, on Thursday morning, for Sydney. However, all fears for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the Newcastle papers of Saturday we give an account of the wreck at Port Stephens of the Rhoderick Dhu, and also some additional particulars of the wrecks of other vessels reported in our last issue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late on Saturday afternoon the steam-tug Bungaree was towing in the brig Midas near Nobby's, at Newcastle, when the hawser broke, in consequence of the heavy strain which the high sea and strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday evening two se[?]men were brought into Newcastle in a spring cart, seriously injured, and taken to the hospital. These men reported that they belonged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Up to Saturday, at noon, not a single body from the wreck of the ill-fated Cawarra had been washed ashore. The corrected list of passengers and crew, extracted above from the Herald, shows that the total number of persons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday an inquest was commenced at Newcastle by the Coroner (Mr. Knaggs), on the bodies of persons past ashore from the late wrecks at Newcastle. The evidence of three witnesses was taken, chiefly for the identification of the bodies,…
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