The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-03-04 00:00:00

The EMIGRANT SHIP !` STRATHMORE."

On Thursday in last week, news was received in
Dundee regarding the long missing emigrant ship
Strathmore, of Dundee. Mr. C. David Bruce, the
managing owner, received the following telegram
from GAle:—
" The Sierra Morena landed .to-day the survivors of the
Strathmore second and third mates, first and second
stewards, carpenter, sailmaker. and cook. Passengers—
Bentley, Spencer, Joshua Crombie, rook, George Joe Ward,
Skidmore, Standing, R3bert William Wilson, Knight, Lennie,
John Wilson, Taylor, Young, Phcenix, Wandsworth and son,
Walker, Keith. Crew—Leask, Fitzterance, Tookey, Black-
more, Turner, Carmichael, Preston, Jackson, Nicol, Duck,
Evans, Warren, Stainivorth, Erickson, Roldan, Vinning, two
Wilsons, Sharp, Trail. Remainder lost."

The Strathmore was, it seems, wrecked as far back
as the Ist of last July, on a rock near the Crozet
group of islands, and the survivors were not, rescued
until the 22nd Janualy. It appears that 44 persons
have been saved and 45 lost.

The Crozet Islands are situated in the South Indian
Ocean, between Rervelen and Prince EdWirdlelanas.
They are four in ithmber, and are of volcanic for-
mation. _

The Times of Monday, gave the following particulars re-
specting the Strathmore : (IX
The news of the escape of some of the passengers and
crew of the Strathmore, long since posted at Lloyd's as
"missing," comes when most of those concerned in
their fate had given up hope. The Strathmore was a
fine sailing vessel, built of iron in 1875 at Dundee,
classed 100 Al. She sailed from Londoo for Otago in
April 1875. Although she was under the flag of Shaw,
Savill, and Co., and sailed as one of their weekly pas-
sengere' line t) New Zealand, she was the property of
Messrs. Bruce, of Dundee. Her master was Captain
C. Macdonald, of whom the telegrams do not speak, lo
that it is to be feared he perished with his ship.
She was not a Colonial Government emigrant ship.
All those who went out in her paid for their
passage, £l6 being the lowest freight charged. She
also carried a general cargo, including 20 tons of gun-
powder—a fact which led to the wildest surmises as to
tier end. We now know that she was totally wrecked
on a rock, near the Crozet group of islands, on the Ist
of July, during a fog. The Crozet group lies between
two ordinary routes to New Zealand, to the south-east
of the Cape of Good Hope, and more than 1,000 miles
away from that landmark, between the Cape and the
Kerguelen Islands. The group is reported to be un-
inhabited, but abounds with pigs, fish, and fresh water.
When about half her time out, and having gone about
half-way, the Stirathmore stranded on one of these
rocks. Of 51 passengers and 38 crew all told-89 souls
in all, and 85i statute adults—who sailed in her, 44
persons are reported to have been saved. These per-
sons must have lived on the island for six months,
from the Ist of July, 1875, to January 22 of this
year. At the latter date they were taken off by
the Young Phceniz, an American vessel, which, from
the latitude in which she cruised, may be supposed
to have been a whaler, and to have put into
the Crozets for water. Four days after this reecue the
Young Phenix spoke the Sierra Morena. The Sierra
Morena sailed from Sunderland on the 15th of No-
vember, 1875, for Karrachee. She took on board
from the Young Phenix twenty of the survivors, and
landed them on Thursday at Point de Galle, the
southernmost point of the island of Ceylon. Those
remaining on the whaler were to be transferred to
another vessel at the first convenient opportunity.
The circumstances attending the loss have not been
fully communicated yet, but details have been tele-
graphed for and will no doubt be immediately received.
The telegraph from Galle is vid Bombay. The follow-
ing li,t3 of names are compiled from the telegrams and
from the registers retained by the charterers. They
indicate, with as much certainty as is at present at-
tainable, who sailed in the Strath,more, who perished
in her, and who now probably survive at Galle or on
the American vessel whioh saved some of our unfor-
tunate countrymen
List of Passengers Saved—Chief cabin.—Spencer &mien,
at Galle; Alfred Walker, on board Young Phoenix; Hilton
Keith, on board Young Phoenix; Frederick Bentley, at
Gills; G. D. Crombie, at ; Charles Wordsworth, on
board Young Phoenix: Mrs. Frances Wordsworth, on board
Young Phoenix. Steerage.—Robert SPF. Lennie, Joseph
Ward, George Ward, Robert A. Wilson, WWiain -B,ooke,
William Wilson, James Tinght, George Skidtuoie, and
Thomas Standring—all at Galle.

List of Passengers Lost:—Chief cabin—Percy Joslen, Alice
Walker, Walter A. 11. Walker, Thomas Henderson, Miss
11. A. Henderson. Second cabin—James Riddell, Mary E.
Riddell, James Blair, Theophllus Mabille, Henrietta Mabille,
IL C. Sinneck. Steerage—John Ridge, Cornelius Moore,
John Diegnau, F. W. Chilton, Edward B Stanbury, John
L. Forster, Edward Godrich, Elizabeth Gudricb, Frederick
William Godrich, Eitzabeth Godrich, Rebecca Godrich,
Hester Jane Godrich, Edward Godrich, Bertle Godrich, E.
Florence Godrich, Louisa Godrich, Mason Johnson,
Francisco Silk, Sarah Jane Silk, George Melor, Henry
'Mien, Henry Lewis, Peter Harford, and B. W. Bell. -
List of Crew Saved :—Thomas B. Peters, second mate, at,
Galle ; John C. Allen, third mate, at Galle ; John Pirie, call%
penter; at Galle ; Cornelius R. JaCkson, on hoard Yonni
Phmnix ; Walter Smith, sailmaker, at Galls; G. F. Butten-
shaw, first steward, at Galle ; John Smith, cook, at Gail.;,
David Wilson, second steward, at Chile ; John Joans, John.
Herren, T. C. Stenworth, Hans Erickson, M. C. Riordan,
johit Wilson, William Vinning, John Wilson, Edward Sharp,
T, Leask, G. Fitzmatirice, Cnarles Torkey, T. Blackrnore,
John Necal, Joseph Duck, Frank Carmichael (apprentice),
Edward Preston (apprentice), Harold Turner (apprentice),
and James Trail—all on board Young Phcenix.
List of Crew Lost :—C. Macdonald, master; IL Ramsay,
first mate; Peter Jansen, Yah Olif Bookstoon, Henry Fel-
lows, John Wilson, Richard M'Lean, Robert • Willies, Philip,
Cogan, Edward May, W. Husband.
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The Godrich family of ten persons appear from those UAW.
to have perished all together.
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On Saturday Mr. David Bruce, the managing owneri.
reCeived at Dundee a telegram stating that of the 45e
passengers and crew lost, the following died on Podges.
sion Island :—Thomas Henderson, Edward Stanbury,
George Miller and a child passenger, and William
Husband, seaman, Captain Macdonald and the re-
mainder of the crew and passengers were drowned
when the wreck occurred.
Mr. John D. Price writes to us (The Times) from

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