Loss of the “Young Australia.”
The Young Australia, after ten years’ successful trading between England and Brisbane, was wrecked on the north point of Moreton Island on 31st May, 1872, when homeward bound, just four and a half hours after leaving her anchorage off the pilot station. Whilst the ship was in the act of going about, the wind fell calm and the heavy easterly swell and southerly current set the ship towards the rocks. The anchor was let go too late, and the heavy swell hove the ship broadside on to the rocks. With some difficulty the passengers were got ashore; and before night, owing to the way in which the heavy swell was grinding the ship on the rocks, it was deemed advisable for the crew to abandon her.
“LIGHT BRIGADE.”
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“YOUNG AUSTRALIA.”
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By the 6th June the wreck had broken in half and was full of water, and on the 7th it was sold by auction in Brisbane, and after some brisk bidding was knocked down to a Mr. Martin for the sum of £7100.
The Champion of the Seas foundered off the Horn when homeward bound in 1877.
The White Star was wrecked in 1883.
Southern Empire fell a victim to the North Atlantic in 1874.
Royal Dane was wrecked on the coast of Chile when homeward bound with guano in 1877.
The Morning Star foundered on a passage from Samarang to U.K. in 1879.
The Shalimar was bought by the Swiss and the Morning Light by the Germans, who renamed her J. M. Wendt.
The Queen of the Colonies was wrecked off Ushant in 1874, when bound from Java to Falmouth.
The Legion of Honour went ashore on the Tripoli coast in 1876, after changing her flag.