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Editor's note: From 'The Sydney Morning Herald'
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The barque Cataraqui sailed from Liverpool on the 20th of April 1845 bound for Melbourne carrying 367 emigrant passengers and 44 crew. On August 4 the ship struck a reef on the southwestern coast of King Island. There were only nine survivors.
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See Andrew Lemon and Marjorie Morgan, Poor Souls They Perished: the Cataraqui - Australia's worst shipwreck. Melbourne: Hargreen, 1986.
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- King Island, Bass Strait Islands, Tasmania,
- 1845
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