What is NSWs worst shipwreck ?
The Dunbar tragedy on the 20th August 1857 is NSW’s worst shipwreck. The number of passengers and crew who died is open to conjecture, although most historical sources put it at either 120 or 121. The New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, however, lists only 106 death certificates for victims of the shipwreck. There was 1 survivor James Johnson. View a crew and passenger list of the Dunbar from the book Dunbar 1857 : disaster on our doorstep By Kieran Hosty, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2007. See a photograph of the survivor James Johnson from PictureAustralia.
