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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
49 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
News reached the city last night that the ketch Integrity had founded at sea when about 25 miles to the the eastward of Broken Bay. Upon making inquires it is gleamed that the Integrity was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The R.M S. Liguria, which arrived to-day from London, brings the following account of the burning of a steamer on the Mississippi:- London, Dec. 28…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The survivors of the screw steamer Storm Queen, belonging to Newcastle, were landed at Dover on Dec. 26 from the Norwegian barque Gulnare. The Storm Queen was lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Ghazee, Captain Scotland, one of the Mogul line, was the last vessel to report having been in a cyclone up north. She is now (says the Herald) on her way to London, though it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams have been received from Corunna reporting the loss of a British steamer on the Sisergas Isjands, during a violent gale on January 11. It was at first reported that 100 persons had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received that a German three masted vessel is ashore on the New Guinea coast. The ship is fast breaking up. The crew have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A HURRICANE Of unexampled severity recurred on the Samoan coast on the evening of the 16th instant. Every [?] el in the harbour of Apia was driven ashore except…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Daylight of Friday, the 15th, brought the cry of "Sail, oh," and a large vessel could be discerned away to the northward inward bound. Upon boarding her I found the vessel to be the Red…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The ketch Maggie Taylor foundered off Camden Haven this morning. Mrs Lloyd and her son, Robert Hogg, who were passengers, and also the cook, were all drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some further particulars have been received in regard to the supposed loss of an emigrant vessel in the Atlantic, by which it was at first feared that a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ONE effect of the new railway time-tables will be to almost paralyse the passenger Steamer traffic between Newcastle and Sydney, at least so far as concerns Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This afternoon the crew of the schooner Mary Campbell landed at Port Macquarie in the Government tugboat Rhea, the schooner having sprung a leak when in a heavy sea. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The ketch Shamrock foundered last night off Port Stephens. All the crew were save This makes the third casualty among coasting vessels on this coast during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some particulars of the total wreck of the four-masted ship Altmore have already appeared in our columns. Under date, the 8th current, however, further information is to hand by the A. U. S. N…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning early (says Saturday's Echo) it was rumoured in Sydney thnt Messrs. J. and A. Brown's well-known steam collier Duckenfield had become a total wreck. The rumour unfortunately proved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING the thick mist caused by the heavy rain of Friday night the steam colller Duckenfield, owned by Messrs J. and A, Brown, went ashore at Long Reef, between Broken Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWS has reached London of the rescue of a party of castaways from a deserted island called Morant Cayes, in the West Indies. The party consisted of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the University College Hospital, on April 20, Dr. W. Wynn Westcott held an inquest touching the death of Alathea Frances Tattershall, 52, a lady of independent means, lately residing at 18…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING a severe gale on Sunday morning the Union Company's steamer Ma[?] ran on Richards Rock, off Mercury Bay, and sank in deep water 10 minutes afterwards. She…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Tenterden, which arrived in Sydney on Sunday, brought news of the total wrack of the Fijian on May 13. The Fijian left Newcastle on May 7 for Fiji via…
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