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Hunter Valley · Shipwrecks & the sea
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The news reached Sydney on Monday evening of the total loss of the little steamer Frederic Davis off Wilson's Headland, between the Clarence River Heads and Coff's Harbour. She was practically a…
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hums, Philp, and Co. have contracted with the Clyde Shipbuilding Company for the building of a passenger steamer of 4500 tons, with refrigerated space aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The schooner Eugene, from the Solomon Islands, was boarded by two men from the steamer Duranbah, in the vicinity of Seal Rocks on Friday, when it was foudn taht Captain Gorman had died some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company's new steamer Karuah, while proceeding from Sydney to Port Stephens last night, went, ashore…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The schooner Eugene, from the So[?]ds was boarded by two men from the [?]bah, in the vicinity of Seal Rocks [?] it was found that Captain Gorman [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Imterest in shipping circles and along the waterfront at Sydney on Thursday was centred in the P. and O Company's new mammoth mail steamer Morea,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The stranded steamer Kardah was floated off Stockton Beach this morning on high tide. The vessel was not damaged. She came on to Newcastle on her own steam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Advices from French West Africa report that the Libcrian Customs gunboat Lark, commanded by a British Naval Reserve officer, fired upon a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] British steamer Fidra, 1218, laden coal, was wrecked on Arum Island, off the coat of Schleswig-Holstein. The e[?], [?]ring 17, perished…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Captain J. H. Schluter, master of the Government patrol ketch Melbidir, in connection with the beche-de-mer and trepang fisheries on the coast, is at present in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The While Star liner Republic, 15,378 tons, came in to collision with an unknown vessel in a dense fog off Nantucket, Massa-chusetts. The Republic sank, but all on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The new steamer Werribee, built for Huddart, Parker and Co. Proprietary, Limited, has sailed from Blyth for Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The new Orient steamer "Osterly" which lost Thursday refused to leave the docks at the official launching ceremony, on account of the action of the frost on the slides, was successfully…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The White Star liner Republic, 15,378 tons, came into collision with an unknown vessel in a dense fog off Nantucket, Massachusetts. The Republic sank, but all on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the most terrible shipping disasters in the history of South Australia, resulting in appalling loss of life, occurred late on Sunday night in St. Vincent's Gulf, S.A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A TERRIBLE shipping calamity occurred in St. Vincent's Gulf during Sunday night. The steamer Clan Ranald, 3500…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mounted Constable Shanks returned to Edithburgh at 8 o'clock on Monday night, and made the following statement—I first heard of the vessel being in danger at 9…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →One of the most terrible shipping disasters in the history of Smith Australia, resulting in appalling loss of life, occuired late on Sunday night in St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The alarming news reached Sydney about midnight that a steamship of about 400 tons, the name of which was unknown, had been totally lost to the southward of Cape Three Points,…
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