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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
25 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2
The steamship Florida, with Government immigrants from Plymouth, dropped anchor in Watson's Bay at about 12 o'clock on Sunday night. The passage has been favoured with fine weather…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Holyhead and Kingstown sea passage can (says the Illustialed London News) now be traversed in two hours and three-quarters The new mail steamer Ireland has been constructed by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The steamer Papua, of the German New Guinea line, on her return from Wilhelmsland to Cooktown, ran on the Osprey reef, and is now a total wreck. The captain and eight men landed here in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Algoma, belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been wrecked in Luke Superior. It appears that after lying to in a heavy storm on the night of November 13, she was proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain Sorensen, of the schooner Duoro, which was seized by the authorities at Cooktown, has interviewed the correspondents of the northern press who sent the reports which appeared in the…
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