| 词条 | South Australian (clipper ship) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HistoryThe clipper South Australian was built at North Sands, Sunderland, 1868 by William Pile for Devitt & Moore's "Adelaide Line" of packets.[1] She was a composite-hull clipper of 1,230 tons (O.M.); 1,040 tons register, length {{convert|201 or 220|ft|m}}, breadth {{convert|36 |ft|m}} and depth {{convert| 20|ft|m}}. Captain Bruce supervised the construction and she was "christened" by a daughter of Henry Martin, a South Australian part-owner.[2] She was commanded by Captain David Bruce 1868–1872, then alternately by his sons, John Bruce 1872–1874 and 1877–1880; Alexander Bruce 1876–1877; and John Howard Barrett 1882–1883 and 1885–1886. Barrett had been master of Outalpa and St. Vincent and later of Hesperus and Illawarra.[3]
South Australian was sold to William J. Woodside of Belfast in 1887, and carried cargo to India and New Brunswick under the command of Captain James Arthurs. On 13 February 1889 while on a passage from Cardiff to Rosario, Argentina loaded with railway track and fishplates, she ran into a gale off Lundy Island and the captain decided to run before the wind. As the ship rolled in the tremendous seas the cargo began moving about in the hold as a solid mass and in the early hours of the 14th broke through the hull. As the ship began to sink a lifeboat was deployed under difficult conditions and all but one of the crew was saved, being picked up by the schooner Spray and carried to Swansea by the steam trawler Flying Scotchman after drifting for twelve hours.[4] The cargo of iron was discovered in 1986 at a depth of {{convert|42|m|ft|-1}} in the Bristol Channel by members of the Ilfracombe & North Devon Sub-Aqua Club.[5] Some other clipper ships on the England to Adelaide service
References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165641653 |title=Some famous Clipper Ships of Olden Days |newspaper=The Observer |volume=LXXVIII, |issue=5,841 |location=South Australia |date=1 January 1921 |accessdate=5 April 2017 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{1889 shipwrecks}}2. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article31977196 |title=Miscellaneous Shipping |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |volume=X, |issue=2964 |location=South Australia |date=15 April 1868 |accessdate=12 April 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article199949396 |title=Personal |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XXXII, |issue=9072 |location=South Australia |date=8 January 1900 |accessdate=13 April 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47054015 |title=Loss of the South Australian |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=LIV, |issue=13,218 |location=South Australia |date=26 March 1889 |accessdate=13 April 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.le2fp.co.uk/index.php/sa-home-page|title=The South Australian: The wreck of a historic sailing ship|publisher=}} 5 : Full-rigged ships of Australia|Clipper ships of Australia|Ships of South Australia|1868 ships|Maritime incidents in 1889 |
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