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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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The steamer Afghanistan has gone ashore in Sicily. The vessel was purported to be laden with coal for Jibutil, the French port in the Gulf of Aden, but in reality the cargo comprised rifles and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Oran mail boat Russia has been wrecked on the Faraman Rocks, Marseilles. The high sea baffled efforts to rescue a hundred of the crew and passengers, who clung to the bows. Happily, after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The French mailboat Russia commenced to fall to pieces aft on Monday. The hull rolled greatly, and the seas wished over and through it. The passengers, who were half starved, occasionally lashed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE French mail steamer Ruesie, trading between Ornn (Algera) and Marseilles, is a total wreck on the Faraman Rocks, near Marseilles. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London, Friday.—the French mail steamer Russie, running between Oran, in Algeria, and Marseilles, has been wrecked on the Faraman Rocks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ship Bothwell, which left Newcastle for [?] Peru, on October 20, is ashore ninety miles south of Callao. A part of the crew has landed at Carri[?]l…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr John M'Donald of Ballarat. (Vic), who is staving, at Princetown, on the Victorian coast, found the other day an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The late cables from New York disclose a terrible result of the recent severe weather. In New York the whole harbour is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pacific Mail S.S. Company's steamer, City of Rio de Janeiro, 3548 tons, from Hongkong and Yokokama, struck the ledge of the entrance to the Golden Gate, Dan Francisco, in a fog. The crew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A TERRIBLE ship-wreek has hust been reported from San Francisco, where the Rio do Jauciro from Hong Kong struck on a rocky ledge just outside…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A TERRIBLE shipwreck has just been reported from San Francisco, where the Rio de Janeiro from Hong Kong struck on a rocky ledge just outside…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Pacific Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, from Hongkong and Yokohama (Japan), struck on a ledge at the entrance to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pacific Mail S.S Company's steamer, City of rio de Janeiro, 3548 tons, from Hongkong and Yokokama, struck the ledge of the entrance to the Golden Gate, San Francisco, in a fog. The crew…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The wreck of the steamer Avlona at Bilbao was due to a gale extinguishing the light on the rocks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Kinfauns Castle, steamer, has been refloated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE South African steamer Kinfauns Castle is ashore on the Needles. [The Needles are a number of sharp pointed rocks off the Isle of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ji. sTEAMKii being built for tbo P. and O. Company caught liro on tho stocks at timohouae. The damage wan estimated at £8000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The steamer Tongariro has towed the Union Castle transport Norham Castle to the Ascension…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The fire on the Jumna broke out in the bunkers on March 9th. The steamer proceeded to Algiers, where 300 tons of coal were removed. Subsequently, in the Bay of Biscay the fire re-appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE steamer Taviuni, which arrived at Auckland, New Zealand, from Fiji and the Islands, brings news of a disastrous hurricane at Levuka on…
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