AN ANCIENT WRECK.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 26 June 1901, Page 3

AN ANCIENT WRECK.

The controversy concerning the ancient wreck on the Victorian coast to the eastward of Warnarabool, has, says the correspondent of the Melbourne Argus been re-opened by an interesting paper read at the last meeting of the Eoyal Geographical Society by Captain Thomson, master .of the steamer Cintra. The timbers of this old vessel, which is locally termed “ the mahogany ship,” were frequently seen in the early days on a sand drive some distance beyond high water mark. The Coast line has since been altered by the shifting sands, and attempts to discover the exact position of the hull have been unsuccessful. In his paper Captain Thompson refers to a letter received by him from Mr James Begg, of the Corowa College, who also enclosed two very old silver coins. He says that these “ coins were dug up in Mr Begg’s garden at the Hamilton Academy (Victoria), and. were supposed to have been left there by natives, who obtained them from the Spaniard who visited the Warrnambool coast, or to have been obtained from the wreck of the Spanish ship ” Captain Thompson further writes “As late as 1803 a vessel left the Thames called the Port- , au-Prince, Captain Duck, with letters of marque, or, in other words, a license to prey on the enemies of Holland. -This permit was granted by the Netherlands and after committing many robberies on the West Coast of South America, she sailed across the Pacific, but was eventually taken by the natives oi Haabai. We have an account of another vessel, supposed to be laden with Spanish dollars, having been lost in Fiji. Now, it is more than probable that the wreck at Warrambool is all that is left of one of these sea robbers.” Further efforts are likely to be made to unearth the remains of the old wreck,

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