Complex sentence: The locomotive arrived in Durban on 10 January 1876 on board the ship Parthenia and was offloaded with some difficulty the following day, resulting in the engine coming down with "a crash onto the bulwark, smashing some of the timbers".
Split into simpler sentences: The locomotive arrived in Durban on 10 January 1876, on board the ship "Parthenia". It was offloaded with some difficulty on the following day, during which the engine came down with "a crash onto the bulwark, smashing some of the timbers".