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20 April 1845

Cataraqui
Liverpool
Melbourne

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Bound for Melbourne but wrecked at King Island, 04/08/1845, losing 406 lives - only nine survived

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Broadside - The Port Phillip Herald Extraordinary of 13.9.1845
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Narrative by J Guthrie, First Mate - Sydney Morning Herald, 27.9.45 from Port Phillip Herald and Port Phillip Gazette
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Reports, letters and Melbourne newspaper accounts published 27.3.1846
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Right Reverend Francis Russell Nixon DD, Bishop of Tasmania - The Cruise of the Beacon: A Narrative of a visit to the islands in Bass's Straits (1857)
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Andrew Lemon and Marjorie Jean Morgan - Poor Souls, They Perished: The Cataraqui: Australia's worst Shipwreck (Melbourne 1986)

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