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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
41 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
Our Port Augusta correspondent, writing on the 23rd December, sends the followiug particulars in reference to the loss of the barge Sarah, at Point Lowly:—"Considerable excitement…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following additional news is brought by the E. and A. Company's steamship Bowen:- Chinese steamers are monopolising the trade of Nagasaki…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Eastern and Australian Company's steamer Singapore, whilst en route for Sydney, from Hongkong, struck on a sunken shoal off No 1 Island, near Mackay, Queensland,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The latest intelligence from [?] that the Singapore is nearly [?] and is a perfect week. She ha been [?] doned and there is [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The latest intelligence from Mackay states that Captain Peake, of [?]he Singapore, relieved the chief officer at four [?]clock on Friday morning Ten minutes late[?] the steamer's course…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The ketch Rose, John Buckley, master, with two sailors en board, left Newcastle for Lake Macquarie, with cargo, en Friday morning last, the 11th instant, at 11 a.m., and was totally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →News was received in Warrnambool on the 29th ult. of the wreck of the Young Australian, a threemasted schooner, which went ashore at ths mouth of Cardie's Inlet, about 35 miles to the eastward of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three shipwrecked mariners arrived at Melbourne on Sunday last, from Java by the barque Ellen. They have landed here penniless, and with only what clothes they have on, and those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the 5th instant we published a Bowen telegram to the effect that the barque Binda, while on her way from Newcastle to Shanghai, with coals, was wrecked on the Chesterfield Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Captain Rapp reports as follows:—Sailed from Hobart Town on the morning of Saturday, 2nd instant. Had light variable winds with remarkable find weather until Sunday morning, the 1Oth, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The excitement consequent upon the loss [?]tained in marine and social circles, by the wreck of the steamship Dandenong on the 11th of September 1876, has scarcely passed away…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Telegrams from Nelson's Bay state that the schooner Caledonia and ketch Lillian collided late on Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, and were driven ashore by the gale…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE excitement consequent upon the lows sustained in marine and social circles, by the wreck of the steamship Dandenong on the 11th of September, 1876, has scarcely passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Brisbane Marine Board, after inquiry into the wreck of the Banda, east of the Bampton Shoals, found that Captain Slattery committed an error of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams from Nelson's Bay state that Be schooner Caledonia and ketch Lillian [?] late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, and Were driven ashore by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The feeling at Maitland, and we believe at, many other places, from what we have heard, is so very strong against the authorities at Newcastle who made no attempt to save the lives of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The inquiry was resumed, at three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, at the Court-house. The first witness examined was David Tait Allan, who deposed: I am harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The following are the details of the disaster on board the Anchor Line steamer Sidonian:— On the morning of April 20 a pin in one part of the engines had given way, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most people would imagine that with the many terrible lessons before them of the disasters likely to arise to vessels through their being overloaded, ship masters would be guarded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The inquiry into the death of William Millet, late chief officer of the Yarra Yarra, wrecked at this port on the 15th inst., was resumed yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, in the Council Chambers…
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