The ''Agnes'' was a wooden carvel cutter built in 1853 in

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. It was lost at Newcastle Bight, New South Wales, on 13 July 1860, when it was blown ashore in a gale whilst travelling between

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and Sydney. The ship master was Henry Hardy.

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