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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1877

41 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 3

Wreck of the Industry, near Selden Point, at the end of Tuggerah Beach. (From a correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1877 · page 6

Early on Sunday morning last the Industry, collier (Peter Smith, master), in ballast from Botany Bay to Newcastle, was wrecked in a small sandy inlet, or bight, at the extreme northern end of…

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