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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
112 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 6
The Canadian passenger steamer City of Monticillo foundered in a gale in the Bay of Fundy, off the coast of Nova Scotia. Thirty-three of her messengers and crew were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several incandescent lamps bearing a white star brand have been picked up recently in the vicinity of Mongonui Bluff, between Hokianga and Kaipara. A very Urge quantity of timber and wreckage has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ship Melville Island, from Sants, Brazil, arrived at Molbourne on Thursday, after a terrible experience of storm and fire. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE ship Melville Island, from Santos, Brazil, arrived at Molbourne on Thursday, after a terrible experience of storm and fire. The vessel shows…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A terrible story of human agony and endurance on the part of a shipwrecked crew conies from South Africa. The Indra, a steamer of 6057 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE most terrific tornado ever experienced at Narrabri occurred there on Monday evening, leaving it a scene of wreck and devastation. Not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The captain and eight of the crow of the steamer Rossgull, which was wrecked near Carbiere, Jersey, were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The German training frigate Grieisnau parted anchor in a storm and was wrecked in the onter harbour of Malaga, on the souther coast of Spain. The vessel sank. Forty persons, including the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The commander of the German frigate Gneisenau, which sunk during a storm in the outer harbour at Malaga, Spain, refused to be saved. He had previously disregarded advice to return to harbour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fire broke out on the steamer Willyama in Newcastle Harbor on the evening of Friday week, whilst a cargo of bullocks and elder were being loaded for Fremantle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wreck of the German frigate Gneisenau at Malaga, Spain, is officially ascribed to the rapid Strengthening of the gale and the breakdown of the frigate's machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Union steamer Monowai arrived this morning and brought upwards of two hundred passengers. The majority came for the inaugural festivities. Sir Robert Stout, the New Zealand Chief Justice, and…
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