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S3E5 Neva - One of the Worst Shipwrecks in Australian History

Convict Australia by Jennifer Twemlow

Jun 30, 202200:13:22Society & Culture

The Neva was a three-masted barque carrying hundreds of female convicts and their children from Ireland to Port Jackson. In 1835 it stuck the Harbinger Reefs near King Island in the treacherous waters of the Bass Strait....

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S3E5 Neva - One of the Worst Shipwrecks in Australian History is an episode from Convict Australia by Jennifer Twemlow. The Neva was a three-masted barque carrying hundreds of female convicts and their children from Ireland to Port Jackson....

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Published Jun 30, 2022, 00:13:22 long, audio available.

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