Description

The following was quoted in the World’s News on August 6th, 1927: “Suddenly, without a soul on board hearing the warning sound of breakers ahead, or the awful reverberations of rollers on the lee shore - the ship struck. Not a dead blow forward against the treacherous rocks, but with a grating crash along her iron hull, causing the ship to quiver from stem to stern, and on a sunken reef that sloped towards the sea, having its broken crest just level with the surface of the water.”

Ship Name: Admella 

Year Built: 1857

Nationality: Australia 

Ship Type: Iron-Hulled Screw Steamship 

Tonnage: 395

Year Wrecked: 1859

Location Wrecked: Carpenter Rocks, South Australia 

Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error 

Lives Lost: 89

Sources: 

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158129520

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162435249

https://books.google.com/books?id=SVdHAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=shipwreck+narrative&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-tLHQ-tuEAxVstokEHV5UBswQ6AF6BAgKEAI#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112904386?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130604234?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/13033881

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1200379?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49827730?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/96490292?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/90249585?searchTerm=admella%20shipwreck