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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
43 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3
THERE has been heavy rain at intervals since yesterday, with an easterly gale along the coast. Several coasters are reported ashore. One schooner, name…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN connection with the disappearance of the steamer Taramung, for the safety of which much anxiety is now felt, further wreekage, supposed to belong to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About a quarter-past eight last night, the report of two guns fired from the signal hill was heard throughout the city, which denoted that a vessel was in distress. A general rush was made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The labour schooner Hector arrived at Brisbane, last evening with a dismasted hulk in tow. The steamer Bugle was returning to Queensland after a long cruise with 73 islanders. She was caught…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE three-masted schoonor, Handa Isle, engaged for years in the timber trade between Sydney and New Zealand, is supposed to have foundered,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United States cruiser Baltmore has confiscated the Chilian insurgent steamer [?], which recently escaped with a cargo of arms and ammunition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The schooner wrecked at the Heads yesterday afternoon was the Nowra, from Tasmania. The hull, with the cargo, is sunk in deep water. The whole deck was lifted bodily by the sea and carried…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work was resumed at the wreek of the Bancoora on the beach at Bream Creek this morning, and the process of hauling cargo ashore was a very slow one. The large and powerful donkey engine Rent from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News has been received of the founding of the Barque Ellen, from Newcastle So Nonmen. The crow numbering eleven escaped in a boat, but they all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS has been received of the loss of the London missionary society's schooner Harrier on a roof near Cooktown. The Rev James Chalmers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A collision occurred at Melbourne Heads this morning, between the steamers Easby and Gambier. The latter sank in seven minutes and over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Probably the most remarkable vessel that has ever crossed the Atlantic arrived on July 22 at Liverpool. This is the screw steamear Charles W. Wetmore. From her peculiar construction she was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The group of survivors found on board the Easby when that vessel moored alongside the wharf presented a pitiable spectacle. In spite of all that had been done for them since the rescue many of them…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grave charges of inaction have been brought against the officers and crew of-the Easby in connection with the saving of life at the collision, Captain Bell, of the Gambier, states that no boats…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A telegram from Cobden states that the life-saving apparatus from Port Campbell reached the scene of the wreck of the barque Fiji this morning; 15 survivors were landed safe, but 12 were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Up goes the Lytham signall St. Anne's has summoned hands! Knee-deep in surf the life-boat's launched abrcast of Southport sands…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday,—A message to the Telegraph Department from Cobden states that 12 men, who were aboard the Fiji, have been drowned,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pilot Thomson, of the steamer Victoria, reports that the B. I. S. N. Company's steamer Virawa is ashore at Dugdale Rocks, 30 miles north of Claremont lightship. There is only 4ft. of water under…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The wreck of the barque Fiji with the cargo and salvage was sold at auction to-day by W. Duthie for £270, L. J. Altman and Co. being the purchasers. At the Marine Board meeting this afternoon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At a quarter to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the guns were fired from the Signal Hill, denoting that a vessel was in distress. In the short space of four and a-half minutes the Newcastle lifeboat was…
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