Auckland Island Shipwreck

Life in the subantarctic is difficult enough for those who arrive prepared. One ship was the Grafton with a crew of five.

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The masts where knocking against the roof of cave and where driven through.

Auckland island shipwreck. Wrecks General Grant Wrecked on the west side of Auckland Island She carried 83 people wool hides and an unknown quantity of gold. The wind fell light and the current caused the ship to drift into an immense cave. They had been dived and searched and ticked off by an armada of salvage missions for more than 150 years.

A few ribs of Auckland Islands earliest recorded shipwreck the Grafton lie in the beach gravel at the southern end of Carnley Harbour. The Grafton on the southern part of the island and the Invercauld. This is a non-fiction story about two shipwrecks on Auckland Island in 1864.

The castaways found the remains of the old house at Erebus Cove but a cache of. Survival became a daily challenge. Wreckage found on the Auckland Islands in 1834 was believed by some to be the remains of the brig Rifleman 303 tons this vessel which left Hobart Town for England with a cargo of wool and was not seen again.

Inaccurate charts were also responsible for many of these wrecks. Some said she was sailing home via Java. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds it is one of the most forbidding places in the world.

In 1864 castaways from two storm-wrecked ships the Grafton and the Invercauld landed on opposite ends of Auckland Island. The Auckland Islands were on a major shipping route but the available charts were not always accurate and several ships were wrecked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Auckland Islands located 465 km from New Zealand is home to many shipwrecks and castaway stories.

The anchors rest on the seabed out from the shore. NZ Bound Index Search Hints Lists Ports Auckland Is. Among them the most famous story is that of the Grafton castaways.

These two crews were wrecked on the island at the same time. Motu Maha or Maungahuka are an archipelago of New Zealand lying 465 kilometres 290 mi south of the South IslandThe main Auckland Island occupying 510 km 2 200 sq mi is surrounded by smaller Adams Island Enderby Island Disappointment Island Ewing Island Rose Island Dundas Island and Green Island with a combined area of 626 km 2 240 sq mi. The Auckland Islands Māori.

Often survivors would make it to. Fifteen people including one woman survived the wreck along with two of the ships boats which gave the castaways reasonable mobility. In 1866 the most famous of the Auckland Islands shipwrecks occurred when the General Grant struck the west side of the island.

At least 8 ships were wrecked a t the Auckland Islands one of New Zealands subantarctic islands between 1864 and 1907 as they travelled on the wind assiste. After mining in Australian goldfields you begin your return journey to London. However violent conditions throw your ship against the rocks off Auckland Islands.

Ships still passed by and stopped at the Auckland Islands sometimes in tragic circumstance. Escape the wreck and signal a passing ship or perish alone. The Invercauld was wrecked on May 10th 1864 six of the crew being drowned commanded by Capt.

Nearby the remnant of a stone fireplace is all that is left of the Epigwaitt. Although there are no books specifically written about wrecks on Campbell Island the above books are wrecks to her close neighbour Auckland Islands. Only 3 out of 19 castaways survived.

When the ship Grafton was wrecked its crew of five men braved the ferocious. You have 60 minutes to escape onto the beach and signal a passing ship or perish alone on the uninhabited island. There were seven known wrecks peppered around the islands coasts and coves.

A hut the castaways built using the ships remains. The ship had struck on the ironbound coast of the Auckland Islands. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.

Shipwrecks were a sadly frequent event in the 19 th century and at least 9 ships were wrecked on the rough coasts of the islands. The schooner Grafton was wrecked in Carnley Harbour Auckland Island in 1864. A tale of two shipwrecks.

The twelve Dundonald crew who survived spent eight months on the islands during a freezing sub-antarctic winter eating what they could catch and making shelter without any equipment. Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean 285 miles south of New Zealand. The other was the Invercauld with a crew of twenty-five.

For example the captain of the Amherst noted that the 1851-maps the ships were using placed the uninhabited Auckland Islands that lay directly within the standard route a full 35 miles south of their true location. The five crewmen all got safely ashore and built a hut which they named Epigwaitt from materials salvaged.

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