Cataraqui Modify Page Content Ship Details Rig Ship Tonnage 800 VoyagesView Full List 20 April 1845 Cataraqui Liverpool Melbourne Description Bound for Melbourne but wrecked at King Island, 04/08/1845, losing 406 lives - only nine survived Media Upload Media Sources Reference Broadside - The Port Phillip Herald Extraordinary of 13.9.1845 Reference Narrative by J Guthrie, First Mate - Sydney Morning Herald, 27.9.45 from Port Phillip Herald and Port Phillip Gazette Reference Reports, letters and Melbourne newspaper accounts published 27.3.1846 Reference 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) Reference Andrew Lemon and Marjorie Jean Morgan - Poor Souls, They Perished: The Cataraqui: Australia's worst Shipwreck (Melbourne 1986) Your Stories Your name * E-mail * Post your story * Submit Leave this field blank Share this Page Share this ship with your friends and followers online.
Reference Narrative by J Guthrie, First Mate - Sydney Morning Herald, 27.9.45 from Port Phillip Herald and Port Phillip Gazette
Reference 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)
Reference Andrew Lemon and Marjorie Jean Morgan - Poor Souls, They Perished: The Cataraqui: Australia's worst Shipwreck (Melbourne 1986)
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