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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1884

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Terrible Shipwreck and Great. Loss of Life

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 November 1884 · page 2

BY the steamer Hauroto. which arrivel from Wellington (N.Z.) Jast evening [?] have received fuller partculars of the wreck of the barque Clyde, and the loss (with the…

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Steamer Ashore

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 November 1884 · page 2

Sydney, Tuesday.—The steamer Gangs is ashore on the Queensland coast…

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Robbery by and Supposed Drowning of a Steamer Thief. (Newcastle Herald of yesterday.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 December 1884 · page 4

On arrival of the passenger steamer Namoi from Sydney early on Saturday morning, a barefaced robbery, and supposed death by drowning of the thief, was reported to the police. The particulars…

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Daring Robbery aboard the Steamer Namoi. Supposed Drowning of the Thief

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 December 1884 · page 1

ON arrival of the passenger steamer Namoi from Sydney early on Saturday morning, a barefaced robbery, and supposed death by drowning of the thief…

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The Nisero's Shipwrecked Crew

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1884 · page 14

The detailed accounts now published of the sufferings of the crew of the N[?]sero while kept in captivity by the Rajah of Tenom must emphasise the general discontent at the lamentable failure of…

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Terrible Wreck

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 December 1884 · page 2

London, Monday.— A Terrible shipping disaster occured in the Irish Channel on Sunday night. The steamer Pochard, playing between Cork and Rotterdam fondered off…

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The Newcastle Steamship Co.'s New Steamer Newcastle

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1884 · page 4

Yesterday (says the Glasgow Herald of the 6th ult.) the splendid new paddle [?] Newcastle, built by Messrs. John Key and Sons, engineers and shipbuilders, Kirkcaldy, went on her trial trip in the Firth…

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