WRECK OF THE DUNDONALD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 4

WRECK OF THE DUNDONALD.

The following is a list of the principal casualties previously on the Auckland Islands:— January 3, 1804.—Grafton, from Sydney, Captain Musgrave and his crew of five, after spending months on the Auckland*, managed, with much patience and ingenuity, to put an extra plank on the sides of the small boat in which they landed, and in that small craft made their way to Stewart Island, which was reached on July 27, 1865. May 10, 18C4.—Minerva, of Leith. Four persons saved from the wreck, and rescued on March 25, 1805. May Hi, 1804.—Invercauld, from Melbourne. There was a total of twentylive crew and passengers on board, six of whom were lost at the time of the wreck. Sixteen of the. survivors were starved to death, and three were rescued on May 10, 1805. May 13, 180(1.—General Grant, from Melbourne, with a total of eighty-three passengers and crew. Sixty-eight were lost at the time of the wreck, one was starved to death, four were afterwards drowned, and the remaining ten were rescued on November 21, 1807. March 12, 1887.—Derry Castle, from Geelong. The total of the crew and passengers was twenty-three, of whom hiteen were lost at the time of the wreck, and eight were rescued on August 19, 1887, by the Awarua. March 10, 1891— Compadre, barque, ran ashore, having previously taken fire, Peter Nelson, a seaman, was lost in the bush and starved to death, and fifteen survivors were rescued by the Janet Ramsay, on June 30, 1801. September 4, 181)3.—Spirit of the Dawn, of Liverpool, wrecked on the Antipodes. The captain and five ollicers were drowned. The eleven survivors were discovered by -the late Captain Fairchild, in the Hineuioa, after they had been eighty-seven days on the Antipodes. They had lived on the raw ilesh of birds and plants found on the island. Not being aware of the Government depot on the island, they had made no search-in fact, had tiavelled but a very short distance from the place where they had landed. Ihe survivors were brought to Dunedm, arriving there on December 4, 18J3. In addition to the above list, a small craft named the Daphne, which wen u search of the gold aboard the Genera Grant, was also lost with *k pcraon. onboard. The sad fate of the ■**. Ka; kanui in 1890, when on her way to ic \ vet hose supped lo be m<Mrcss, will be remembered by most people.