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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea

Shipwrecks & the sea, 1906

143 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 8

Steamer Excursion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 2

Yesterday the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's favourite steamer. Newcastle was dispatched on an ocean excursion to Port Stephens The day was…

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Plague on a Steamer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 3

The steamer Berlin, from Adelaide October to the Continent, via Java, landed at [?]z two patients suffering from plague…

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Wreck Reported

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 December 1906 · page 3

It was reporter in Sydney this morning that the four-masted barque Morven, which loaded wheat in Port Jackson last year, had been wrecked near Cardigan Bay, on the…

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