The loss of the Dunbar in August 1857 was one of the more tragic and distressing shipwrecks to occur in Australian waters. On the morning of Friday 21 August people living in Sydney’s East awoke to find wreckage and mutilated bodies dotted along the rugged coast and inside the harbour mouth. A large ship hadContinue reading “The Dunbar Tragedy – 1857”
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