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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1845

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Dreadful Shipwreck

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1845 · page 4

On the 4th August occurred one of the most awful shipwrecks on record, namely that of the Cataraqui, emigrant ship, Captain Finlay, from Liverpool to Melbourne, which struck on a reef…

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