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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
163 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 9
BRISBANE, Friday afternoon.—The German steamer Augsburg arrived in Moreton Bay last night, and anchored at the ber, en route for Singapore and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer P[?]barra, engaged in the West Australian tra[?]e, s[?]ived in port early this morning on fire. The outbreak was discovered at a little after two o'clock among the general cargo consisting of chaff…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Pilbarra arrived from West Australia this morning on fire. The fire broke out at 2 o'clock off Wollongong. The batches were battened down. The fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As you travel through Spain by the express (says a writer in the London Daily Mail) which carries you to Madrid, the belief is forced upon you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Zealand Shipping Company recently requested the Admiralty to send out a warship to search the Crozete, with the view of endesvouring to discover any traces of the company's overdue steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Telegraph Department has received a message from Thursday Island reporting that the Norwegian barquentine Island, of Proseland, Wallace Islands, bound to Liverpool with a cargo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As you travel through Spain by the express Which carries you to Madrid, the belief is forced upon you (says a correspondent) that not even a rumour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A feeling of intense relief was experienced in shipping circles this morning when the cable news arrived announcing that the steamer Waikato had been signalled about 1200 miles east-south-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barquentine Tacora arrived at Mauritius and reports that she sighted the Waikato in 88 dog, south latitude, 80 dog, east longitude on tho 31st. Her shaft was broken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The barquentine Tacore, which has arrived at Mauritius, reports having sighted the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Waikato, on July…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Times states that with the view of preventing British interference in the internal affairs of the Transvaal, the Boer Executive will probably concede a five years' franchise to the Uitlanders…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Auckland (N.Z.), Wednesday afternoon. The Sydney ketch Envy, bound from Wellington of Auckland, which was supposed to have foundered in the recent gale, has arrived. When the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News has reached London to the effect that the New Zealand Shipping Co'[?] steamer Token, bound from Wellington (N.Z.) to London, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ship Jane Burrell bound to Manila became a total wreck at Basilan, but all hands were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tokoa's life boat has been passed at sea. it being empty at the time. The Tekoa was wrecked at Staten Island, near Horn, when on the voyage from Wellington to London with a large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The life-boat of the wrecked steamer Toko has been passed at sea empty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain Hunt of the steamer Gosford, repeits that a steamer like the Rockfon is ashore twelve miles sooth of Port Stephens. He stood by the steamer for three hours[?] but she refused to take his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible tragedy at sea in reported from Charleston, South Carolina. The Norwegian barque Drot was wrecked while on a voyage from Penencola, Florida, tp Buenos Ayres. All on board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A terrible tragedy at sea in reported from Charleston, South Carolina. The Norwegian barque Drot was wrecked while on a voyage from Pensacola, Florida, to Buenos Ayres. All on board…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Queensland mail steamer Duke of Buckingham, which left London for Brisbane on September 1, has returned to Plymouth in a disabled condition. The steamer encountered a heavy gale,…
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