Thomas S. Glaister1857, 20 August (after)
JJames Johnson, sole survivor of the clipper Dunbar, which ran aground below South Head, Sydney Harbour, on the night of 20 August 1857
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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South WalesCall Number: DG P3/38, Record Identifier: Yoldx539
Attributed to Glaister by the Curator of Photographs, State Library of NSW, in 2004.
Able-seaman, James Johnson, was the sole survivor of the clipper Dunbar, which ran aground below South Head, Sydney Harbour, on the night of 20 August 1857. All 121 passengers and crew perished. -- Reference: The Australian encyclopaedia / editor-in-chief: Alec H. Chisholm. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1958. Volume III.
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