In Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea by Milner and Sowerby, published in 1863, the following account was included: “It appears, that on the night of the 2nd of June, the crew of the Chance were anxious to ascertain whether such rocks as were laid down in the chart, forming St. Paul’s Island, forty-five miles north of the equator, and twenty-nine degrees west, were really to be seen, as many doubts prevailed as to their existence. Captain Roxby informed them that, if the same course they were then going was kept until the following morning, they would come in sight of the rocks. Accordingly, and eight o’clock, they descried them, and, at half-past nine, the captain was much surprised by observing, through a glass, a Dutch ensign flying from a spar on the island.”
Ship Name: John Henrick
Year Built: 1845
Tonnage: 800
Nationality: Netherlands
Ship Type: East Indiaman
Year Wrecked: 1845
Location Wrecked: St Peter and St Paul Archipelago
Reason for Wreck: Navigational Error, Struck Rocks
Lives Lost: Eight
Sources:
https://books.google.com/books?id=qv9GAAAAcAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3052013/3052017/38/john%2BOR%2Bhenrick%2BOR%2Bshipwreck
