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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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A cable, from New Zealand this morning states that the steamer Ruapehu grounded on a sand bank at seven o'clock on Friday evening and that several tugs are standing by. It is expected she the sand. At two o'clock this morning a moderate sea was running, and the tugs failed to shift the steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE New Zealand Shipping Co's steamer Ruapehu, bound from London to Wellington, has stranded on a somewhat dangerous position on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A telegram was received this morning from Barranjoey to the effect that the steamer Princess when off South Head at Broken Bay, at half-past ten o'clock yesternight sprang a leak and commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?] of the vessels of the Grange line, which left Sydney for London on 6th November with a valuable [?] arge of frozen meat, wool, nickel ore, etc., arrived at Buenos Ayres…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A notice was posted in the Exchange this morning to the effect that a large, barque was ashore three miles west of the entrance of Gippsland Lakes. Further particulars are anxiously awaited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The troopship Warren Hastings has been totally wrecked off the Island of Reunion, east of Madagascar. The troops were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The troopship Warren Hastings, which was wrecked off the Island of Reunion, East Madagascar, had on board 1200 persons, including passengers and crew. The vessel was bound from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The troopship Warren Hastings has been wrocked off the Island of Reunion, East of Madagascar: There were 12,000 persons aboard, including…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Later particulars of the wreck of an Indian troopship, Warren Hustings, on the island Re-union, while on a voyage from Capetown to Maurltius Bombay with troops, state the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The s.s. Rushine is reported to have broken her shaft while off Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As the ketch Defendet was proceeding to sea this morning she missed stays, and drifted dangerously close to shore near Old Man's Hat. Two anchors were dropped and the pilot steamer Captain Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mail steamer Zealandia, about whose safety considerable anxiety was felt, owing to the fact that she was three days overdue from San Fran-cisco, reached Auckland this morning, she having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer City of Agra has been lost off the Spanish port of Corenbion, near Cape Finisterre, and thirty-five persons were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A destructive fire occurred to-day in the great warehouses of Sir J.B Maple and Company (Limited), Camdentown. The damage is estimated at £80,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The at earner Burrawong, which has been aground at Kempsey for some time, was successfully floated yesternight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is a May day. If we did not take our weather on trust and tradition, as we take so many things, we could certainly never find it out for ourselves…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Orient Company's mail steamship Or[?]tava, which left London outward bound for Australia on the 5th instant, went ashore on the Scilla Shoal, near Aden, The crew and passengers are all well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Oratava, which went ashore on Soilla Shoal, near Perim, is at present undamaged. She will lighter her cargo. The Cossack has gone to the assistance of the Oratava…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Union Company's steamer Taieri, which left Sydney last evening for Devonport, with a punt in tow for that port, put into Jervis Bay this morning owing to the punt having become…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Syracuse has been wrecked on the coast of Cornwall. Of those on board the ill-fated vessel 40 were drowned. Heavy seas were running and prevented the life-boat from reaching the…
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