Events in the 1870s[]
- About 1870 (sixty years before Wild Cat's first voyage in about 1930): Peter Duck is shipwrecked and washes up on Crab Island (PD21)
- unknown year, perhaps in early 1870s: Birth of Maria Turner to Great Grandfather Turner and his wife (date estimated by working back from the Tin Trumpet Incident)
- unknown year in late 1870s or early 1880s: birth of Tommy Jolys
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