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The Sailor Rescued 1857

By
Walter G Mason
George French Angas
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National Library of Australia
[PETHpam 2514]
(from 'A Narrative of the melancholy wreck of the "Dunbar", merchant ship, on the south head of Port Jackson, August 20th, 1857 : with illustrations of the principal localities' Sydney, Published for the proprietors by James Fryer, 1857)

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Mason, Walter G

Angas, George French

English artist and naturalist who visited Australia several times between 1844 and 1863.

National Library of Australia

Dunbar shipwreck

In stormy weather, in the dark, after 81 days at sea, the Dunbar hit the rocks below The Gap, breaking up immediately. All but one on board were drowned, in one of the worst disasters in Sydney's history.

Dunbar shipwreck 1857

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Shipwreck in which 121 people died, leading to the building of the Hornby lighthouse.

Johnson, James

Lone survivor of the wreck of the Dunbar in 1857.

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The Gap

Sandstone ocean cliff at South Head, adjacent to Watsons Bay.

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Dunbar

Ship wrecked in 1857 off the Sydney Heads with a loss of 121 lives and only one survivor. It was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as 'a splendid vessel'.

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