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From: "Grant Nurden" <>
Subject: Re: Sinking Ships
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 21:14:48 +0200


Dear Mike

I believe that you will find the list of passengers who perished on the
Waratah under the following reference number at the archives in
Pietermaritzburg:

IRD volume 80 reference 1731/1909

I hope that this is of some help.

Sincerely,

Grant Nurden
Actagen Genealogical Research Services
Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal

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> From: M. Scott-Williams <>
> To:
> Subject: Sinking Ships
> Date: 16 November 1998 19:18
>
> Does anyone know where I can find a list of passengers on the S.S.
Waratah
> for her last voyage from Durban in 1909?
> I recently came across a newspaper cutting about Bloemfontein people
> lost with the Drummond Castle off Ushant in 1896. She was headed for
> England, and among her passengers were Alex. E.K. Donaldson and a friend
> by the name of Hinds. They were going to England to raise capital to
> establish a mine in the Odendaalsrust area. They had found an outcrop of
> gold, the richest yet, and had managed to keep it all a secret. This all
> came to nothing, both were lost in the sinking!
> The cutting goes on to mention that Alex. Donaldson's sister was also
> lost at sea, she was on the Waratah in 1909!
> Alex was my Great Great Uncle, and I know of two sisters, but which one
> was on the Waratah?
>
> I have tried the Natal Witness and the Mercury newspapers, but had no joy
> from
> either.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
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