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Tasmanian Seafarers' Memorial
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Oyster Bay Tragedy (1850)
The plaque reads ...
Oyster Bay Tragedy
5 November, 1850
Children of Thomas and Mary Ann Large
drowned when sloop 'Resolution' was
wrecked off Waterloo Point (Swansea)
Elizabeth aged 12 Edmund J. aged 10
William aged 8 Hannah aged 6
George aged 4 Frances M. aged 2
The
Glamorgan/Spring Bay Historical Society
The Colonial Times reported on the 12 November 1850 of the loss of the family aboard the sloop Resolution that was returning from a charter by Thomas Large. The Resolution ran aground at Waterloo Point near the entrance of the Meredith River at Swansea.
