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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1900

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 6

(I. Benjamin Runting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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American Warship Ashore. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 3

The American battleship Oregon struck the pinnacle of a rock in the Gulf of Pechi[?]. The rock pierced through her side, and made 19 smaller…

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LONDON, Sunday. American Warship Ashore

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 July 1900 · page 3

The American battleship Oregon struck the pinnacle of a rock in the Gulf of Pechili. The rock pierced through her side, and made to smaller…

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A Steamer Aground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 July 1900 · page 3

A telegram from Bri[?] this morning reported that the steamer A[?] which arrived there yesterday from Sydney, had gone aground in the river…

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Fire on the Steamer Matatua

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 July 1900 · page 3

The cargo of the steamer Matatua (Shaw, Saville, and Albion Co.) caught fire at Monte Vi[?] owing to a defect in the insulation of the refrigerating chambers. Two thousand three hundred…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 July 1900 · page 1

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of bis Adventures on the Dark…

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A Steamer Aground

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 July 1900 · page 2

A telegram from Melbourne states that the steamer Nemesis, while outward bound to West Australia, went aground in the South Channel. The vessel is not in any danger…

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An Unlucky Steamer. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 July 1900 · page 2

The stenmer Anerley which her arrived at Natal from [?] 201 horse on the passage. [The Aerley left new[?]…

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Wrecked in a Fog. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 July 1900 · page 3

The steamer Campanin, during a fog on Saturday, struck Embleton Island, is the Irish Channel, cutting her in [?] The first and second mates and…

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A Wrecked Schooner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1900 · page 2

A wire received from Forester this morning stated that the schooner Empress of India had sunk in the sand [?] was now a total wreak…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 July 1900 · page 1

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 186O. do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, mid publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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The Steamer Auchenarden

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 July 1900 · page 3

The steamer Auchenarden, which left New York on July 21 with a cargo for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, has returned to New York on account of her boilers leaking…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Banting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 August 1900 · page 1

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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Honingspruit Wreckers. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 August 1900 · page 3

Lieutenent – General Sir Leslie Rundle, commonding a strong mixed force, is purceuing the Honingspruit trian-wreckers, who recently derailed…

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Bob Blizzard in Africa. His Shipwreck and Adventures. Edited and Revised by His Nephew, Benjamin Bunting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 August 1900 · page 1

(I, Benjamin Bunting, so christened in 1860, do hereby declare that I am fully authorised by my late uncle, Mr. Robert Blizzard, deceased, to revise, correct, and publish these authentic accounts of his Adventures on the Dark…

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The Steamer's Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 August 1900 · page 3

Evidence in regard to the Brighton-Bruner collision was concluded to-day. The addresses were then entered upon…

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Fire on the Steamer Cymric

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 August 1900 · page 3

On the voyage of the Steamer Cymric from [?] to New York [?] of alarming p[?] in the fore hold of the vessel, [?] 36 hom[?] the [?]w battled against its…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Wreck of a Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 3

Mcasce. Burne Philp and Company this morning received the following cable The [?] been [?] on Mindo[?]s Island, this side of [?]…

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Wrecked by a Woman

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 August 1900 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

A mano some into the wa[?]-room of the dupot, making his way on a pair of erutohes. His feet drogged his [?] was out of plumb and a [?] was aufficient to show that he was…

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