MARINE 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 1844, 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 one survivor, Johnson, out of 120 passengers and crew. Nine years afterwards, strange to say, he rescued the only sur* rivor from the wreck of the steamer Cawarra, at the entrance to 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 Flinder’s Passage, in 1876, 102 lives; and the steamer Dandenong off Jervis Bay, in 1876, 40 lives.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2542, 14 May 1881, Page 2
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194MARINE DISASTERS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2542, 14 May 1881, Page 2
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