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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
35 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
"The darkest hour is just before the dawn," and verily it proved so now with Lilias Gibson. The very densest point of the deep darkness into which she had been cast had come, and she bad resigned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thus the truth was brought to light, and justice was done at last. For well nigh twenty years the fraud had prospered, and the orphan of the wreck had been deprived of his inheritance. So long had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir Charles Cowper has returned to London. His health is completely restored, and he is actively occupied in the discharge of his official duties. The Duke of Manchester, at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The captain and crew of the missionary scheoney Dayspring, belonging to the Presbyterian Missionary Society, arrived yesterday from New Caledonia in the steamer Havilab. They report the loss of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The R.M.S.S. Sumatra left Ceylon to-day for Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is now some nineteen years since this vessel, under the command of Captain Knight, arrived in Port Jackson from England. Since that date she has been in active service, and no boat in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is our painful duty to chronicle one of the most disastrous fires that has ever befallen Newcastle. Despite the very slight alarm given to the peaceful and well conducted citizens who had retired to their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United States mail steamer Atlantia, which left Liverpool on the 20th March, for New York, stranded near Halifax, on the coast of Nova Scotia. The details of the wreck are of the most harrowing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest details received reduce the number of lives lost by the wreck of the steamer Atlantic to 560; among these were 350 women and children…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The R. M. S. S. Baroda left Galle for Australia on the 14th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The official inquiry into the cause of the wreck of the United States mail steamer Atlantic, on the coast of Nova Scotia, has terminated. The verdict is that the supply of coal was dangerously inadequate to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the request of the owners of the steamship Atlantic, a fresh inquiry has been ordered into the circumstances connected with her loss. This second investigation is to take place at Liverpool before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The late southerly gale appears to have been the cause of some serious shipping disasters. In addition to the loss of the steamer Fire King, we have to-day received tidings of the wreck of a large English ship…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An excursion to Schnapper Point in the yacht Secret had a melancholy termination on Sunday night. The Secret, belonging to Mr. W. F. King, connected with the firm of Mason…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Captain W. O. Hersee, late master of the C. and R. R. S. N. Co.'s steamship Fire King, recently wrecked on the Manning River, arrived in Sydney at one o'clock this morning, in the Morpeth (s.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Gidelia, bound for Melbourne, has been totally wrecked off Port Elizabeth. All hands are saved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been favoured with the following particulars of the loss of the above vessel, which have been received from Captain Hageman, of the Johann Smidt, arrived at Saigon from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the first day of the month information was received from Philadelphia that the Atlantic steamer, out eleven days, with rough passage, falling short of coal on March 31, changed its course for Halifax…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Columbus, running between Holyhood and Dublin, struck on a rock near Holyhead. There were 200 persons aboard, and fifteen of them were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The safe arrivals of this magnificent ship has placed at the disposal of the A. S. N. Co. one of the finest vessels in the Southern Pacific. She was built at Renfrew by Messrs. Henderson, Colborne, and Co.;…
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