Watsons Bay

This guide to Watsons Bay recounts the wreck of the clipper Dunbar, which struck these cliffs in a driving rainstorm on the night of 20 August 1857 while carrying passengers and crew home to Sydney. It follows the ship's final approach to what her captain mistook for the harbour entrance, and the devastating toll among those aboard. Along the way it traces how the young colony mourned its dead. Look toward the cliff edge below for the anchor recovered from the wreck decades later.