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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
218 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 11
The southerly gale yesterday night was the most severe known along the coast for a long time, and there is still a tremendous sea on at the Heads and along the coast, but the gale is gradually abating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE boisterons weather prevailing has knocked the wires all directions, and we have not (at 7 p.m.) been able to get our usual message through. Very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A report has been received from Crete to the offect that a British steamer has been fired upon by the insurgents at Canea, the capital of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the whole of yesterday inquiries, were current in Maitland respecting the rumoured loss on the coast of the steamer Maitland, which had left Sydney for the Hunter on Wednesday evening,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The gale which-raged along the coast last night was the hoaviost that has occurred for some time. A tremen dous son ran during the height of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MAITLAND folk have their sad experiences of conflict with one of the giant forces of nature. But to them the foe comes in the shape of flood, resistless in power, achieving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest particulars to hand in regard to the wreck of the N.H.R.N.S.N. Company's steamship Maitland, at Cape Three points, near Barranjoey, on Friday morning, last that the disaster is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During yesternight the hatches of the ship Hereward were swept away, and the vessel is now full of water on the lee side. It is reported the stermer Tyrian is ashore at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There is no sign yet of the steamer Duckenfield, and it is feared she is lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Tyrian, of the Howard Smith line, is reported to Be ashore near Newcastle. She left Sydney on Saturday afternoon for Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The southerly gale on Thursday was the most severe known along the coast for a long time. The schooners Hally-Bayley and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday there was great consternation in Dungog upon the receipt of a telegram from Sydney announcing the loss of the Hunter River boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GREAT fears were entertained for. the safety of the steamer Duckenfield, which left Newcastle coal-laden for Sydney on Thursday afternoon The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ketch Landsdowne, which was sighted off the North Coast in a dismasted condition, was towed into Ballina this morning. The wreck roll to date numbers 13, consisting of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five coasters have been driven ashore at Nelson's Bay, and two were totally wrecked. No lives were lost. The schooner Palfrey and several…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Captain and other officers who were saved from the steamer Maitland give most thrilling reports of the disaster and the struggles for life, and all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wreck of the Newcastle and Hunter River Company's steamer Maitland adds another disaster to the already long list for which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE we sorrow on the sea in the late storm, and a deep gloom spread over Sydney and Newcastle on Saturday as gradually the fragmentary news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FIVE little crafts well-known in Newcastle, have been wrecked at Nelson's Bay. They are the steamer Ethel, (frequently used for river excursions)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE most thrilling and dreadful experiences, peculiar, at times, to those who brave the dangers of the deep for a livelihood are unhappily associated…
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