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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
20 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
It will be recollected that this ill-fated vessel was lost on her passage to New Orleans, and nearly 300 persons perished. The Panama Star gives the following particulars of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Balclutha arrived at Adelaide at daylight. The Geelong left the Sound on the 3rd. The Bombay left Galle on the 22nd December, and arrived at the Sound on the 5th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The steamship Ceres, with general cargo from London to Dublin, has been wrecked, at Carnsore Point, fourteen miles from Wexford. She struck about 6 p.m. on Nov. 10…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQUE COYA HOUND FROM SYDNEY, N.S.W. TO SAN FRANCISCO.—TWENTY-SIX LIVES LOST. —The San Francisco papers publish full details of the wreck of the British barque Coya, Captain Paige, bound from Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQUE COYA, BOUND FROM SYDNEY, N.S.W., TO SAN FRANCISCO.—TWENTY-SIX LIVES LOST. The San Francisco papers publish full details of the wreck of the British barque Coya, Captain Paige, bound from Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Geelong, with the English mail, arrived at the Sound on the 6th instant. She left Galle on the 23rd ult. The Alexandria arrived at Glenelg this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The mail steamer Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived off Glenelg at six p.m., on the 10th, after a passage of 113 hours from the Sound. The downward trip was under 96 hours. The Avoca arrived at the Sound at eleven…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A frighful scene was witnessed off the harbour of Calais on a recent night. A French vessel got ashore within 200 yards of the end of the pier, and it was evident that unless help was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The fine screw steamer Falcon, with the whole of her passengers and crew, with only three exceptions, went down off the Mull of Cantyre on Sunday morning, a little after two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The gale which swept the coast during the past week has been attended with disasters to shipping, accompanied by loss of life. The information of the above wrecks was first brought to Newcastle by the chief officer of the Cyclone, and Captain Arnott,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ill-fated Indiaman wrecked between Mullion and Poljew Coves, on the coast of Cornwall, on the morning of the 25th March, when all the crew and passengers, except one,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A correspondent has favoured us with the following letter relating to the above events. The concluding paragraph of it deserves the serious attention of all who are interested in securing the safety of commerce in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gale of unusually terrific violence has swept along our coast during the past week, but fortunately has in this instance, been unaccompanied by any serious disasters to shipping. The first premonition of the coming storm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The S. M. Herald publishes the following particulars as given by pilot Taylor of his perilous position while in the lifeboat:— He states that on Friday morning, at breakfast time,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since Monday a heavy southerly gale has been raging on the coast, and has been attended with even more disastrous consequences—as far as regards the shipping— than the recent one in June last. On Sunday the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of a very dense fog on Thursday, May 2, her Majesty's mail steamer Leinster, belonging to the City of Dublin Steampacket Company, which left Kingston at seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Rangatira is at Adelaide. The Geelong arrived at the Sound on the 4th, after the quickest passage on record; she would leave again at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Steamer Telegraph, for Brisbane, on shore. Crew and passengers saved. The above message was given by signal from the Grafton, steamer, now (3 p.m.) coming in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Brunker must have been sixty. She lived next door—and waited on an invalid old lady who never left the house. She had saved money, but chose to continue in service…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A new iron steamship, the Hiogo, Captain Bainton, built and owned by Mr. Laing, of Sunderland, was run on the Eddystone, off Plymouth, on Oct. 1, and went down in deep…
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