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Passenger steamer · 1869

SS Carnatic

Abu Nuhas reef, Red Sea, Egypt

SS Carnatic
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History

A P&O steamer that ran onto Abu Nuhas while carrying gold coins and wine, a few months before the Suez Canal opened.

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