| January 1874 143 years ago the wooden Brig “Rose of Australia” ran aground at Wreck Bay NSW. |
| The vessels scattered remains in shallow reef area on west side of St Georges Head. A wooden brig, 262 tons gross, 30.14m length, built at Gateshead, County of Durham, UK in 1862. Register of British Shipping, Newcastle, NSW, folio 7 of 1864, Official No. 45153. Wrecked when it ran ashore during a fog on a voyage from Melbourne to Sydney on 22 January 1874. No lives were lost. |
| No further details are known at this time. |
 |
.
19 January 2017
Rose of Australia
Subscribe to:
Post Comments
(
Atom
)
No comments :
Post a Comment