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From sad beginnings and a difficult nursing career Isobel Horner progressed to her own private hospital - Waratah - which she later converted to an exclusive guest house at 12 York Street, Launceston.
![Ships in Tasmanian Waters - shipping history, written by master mariner GW Cox | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/ships-in-tasmanian-waters-lIXdX9.png "Ships in Tasmanian Waters - shipping history, written by master mariner GW Cox | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]")
Tasmanian maritime history covering river boats, ferries and the floating bridge.
The story of King Island's many shipwrecks, including the Cataraqui disaster of 1845 – Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, claiming around 400 lives – along with the Neva, British Admiral and Blencartha, and the lighthouses eventually built to make the treacherous western entrance to Bass Strait safer.
![Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/shipwrecks-of-the-furneaux-group-4wJqTt.png "Shipwrecks of the Furneaux Group – Around the Islands at the Eastern End of Bass Strait | Graeme Broxam & Michael Nash | 2023 [NEW – SC]")
Starting with the first shipwreck in the waters around the Furneaux Islands — the Sydney Cove in 1797 — this book tells the stories of ships wrecked around the Furneaux Group, the islands at the eastern end of Bass Strait including Flinders Island, Cape Barren Island and Clarke Island.
