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Tasmanian Seafarers' Memorial
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Neva (1835)
The plaque reads ...
Neva
Convict Transport Barque of 327 tons
sailed from Cork, Ireland on 8.1.1835.
Captain Peck with 26 officers and crew,
150 female convicts with 33 children,
9 free women and 22 children bound for
Sydney. 13.5.1835 struck Harbinger Reef
north of King Island with 239 aboard.
22 made landfall where 7 later died.
~ Tasmania's second worst shipwreck. ~