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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
34 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
A public meeting for the purpose of devising means for raising funds for the relief of the widows and orphans of those persons who perished opon the late wrecks was held at the Masonic Hall, on Wednesday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After the termiuation of the late storm the Government despatched Captain Myhill, the harbour-master, in the Grafton, steamer, to examine the coast to the northward in search of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Tuesday morning the commissioners appointed by the Government to enquire into the circumstances of the wreck of the steamship Cawarra (which was attended with such disastrous loss of life), arrived at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We resume our report of the official enquiry made at Newcastle relative to the Wreck of the Cawarra and the management of the lifebeat during the late disasters at Newcastle. Our last report closed with a portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting convened by requisition to the Mayor took place on Friday evening, at the Town Hall, to devise means for aiding the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir—I forward for insertion in your journal the following account of the wreck of the Tahitian schooner Irene, which vessel has twice visited this port. It is a narrative account, and taken down from one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOTAL WRECK OF THE BARQUE CATHAY. —This vessel, from Sydney bound to Java, and commanded by Captain Gibbon, was totally lost at 3 a.m. on the 19th July. The captain, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Under-Secretary for Finance and Trade to Messrs. E. 0. Moriarty, Francis Hixson, and Commander Goss, R.N. The Treasury, New South Wales, July 21,1866…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The [?]angatira arrived at Glenelg Pier at six o'clock this morning. The downward passage was mad in 110 hours, and the upward passage in 112 hours The Ellora arrived at the Sound at 6 p.m. on tbe 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few days ago there appeared in the Sydney papers an exceedingly brief account of the wreck of the brig Cosmopolite, on Mast-head Island, or Reef, some twenty-eight or thirty miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[The first part of the following mail summary was received by us late on Saturday evening, by telegram from our Sydney correspondent, and published at once by us in Maitland as a brief…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Belfast steamer Talbot left Morcambe on Monday night, and when about four miles out the boiler exploded with a most terrific concussion, which proved productive of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived off Glenelg, at 11.30 a.m., 97½ hours from the Sound. The upward passage was 96 hours. The P. and 0. steamer Avoca, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Thursday evening last, at a few minutes before eight o'clock, the barque Nautilus, Captain De Landles, ran aground with all sail on her on to the ledge of rocks immediately under Nobby's. The pilot department and the public first became…
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