SHIPPING DISASTERS.
In an article on the wreck of the Tararua, the Tasmanian Mail gives a list of some of the maritime disasters that have occurred on the shores of Australasia, It says—" Perhaps the worst was the wreck’ of the emigrant ship Cataraqui, on King’s Island, in 1845, when 414 lives were lost. The Dunbar disaster at the Gap, near South Head, Sydney, in 1857, will be remembered by the fact that there was . only one survivor, Johnson, out of 120 passengers and crew. Nine years afterwards, singular to say, ho rescued - the only survivor from the wreck of the steamer Cawavra, at the entrance of Newcastle, 59 persons being drowned. In the wreck of the steamer Admella, on the trip between Adelaide and Melbourne, in 1859, there were 75 persons perished ; while the disaster that befel the ship General Grant off the Auckland Isles in 1866, caused the loss of nearly 90 persons. Then there was the loss of the British Admiral off King’s Island in 1874, 79 lives lost; the steamer Gothenburg, wrecked in Flinders Passage in 1876, 102 lives; and the steamer Dandenong off Jervis Bay in 1876, 40 lives,” To the above we may add H.M.S, Orpheus, wrecked at Manukau Heads in 1863, by which 80 or 90 lives were lost; and the City of Dunedin at Wellington Heads in 1865, when not one out of over a hundred souls escaped.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1448, 19 May 1881, Page 2
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