Kapunda Doesn't Take the Usual Course (1887)

Description

The Brisbane Courier on the 15th of April, 1887 carried the following report from a correspondent who had gone to great lengths to find out what had happened in the latest maritime disaster: “Today I disembarked at Pauillac from the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamship Patagonia, which had on board most of the survivors of the ill-fated immigrant ship Kapunda…I joined the vessel at Lisbon, and during the passage hither conversed with the survivors with the object of eliciting the details of a disaster which had hitherto been described only in the barest outline.”

Ship Name: Kapunda

Year Built: 1875

Nationality: British

Tonnage: 1135

Ship Type: Iron-Hulled Sailing Vessel

Year Wrecked: 1887

Reason for Wreck: Struck by the Ada Melmore

Location Wrecked: 600 Miles From the Coast of Brazil

Lives Lost: 303

Sources:

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-news-the-loss-of-the-kapunda/4659986/

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11593501