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Cataraqui shipwreck

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Cataraqui (ship)

The Cataraqui (also called the Cataraque) was a British barque which sank off the south-west coast of King Island in Bass Strait on 4 August 1845. The sinking was Australia's worst ever maritime civil disaster incident, claiming the lives of 400 people.

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