page_title: Loch Vennachar
section_title: Crew of the final voyage
hierarchical_section_title: Loch Vennachar / Final voyage / Crew of the final voyage
caption_attribution_description: Black and white photograph of Captain W. Hawkins and Chief Officer James Priest, taken prior to 1905.
context_page_description: Loch Vennachar was a three-masted iron sailing ship that operated between Great Britain and Australia between the late 19th century and 1905. The name was drawn from Loch Venachar, a lake which lies to the south-west of the burgh of Callander, in the Stirling region of Scotland. It is understood to mean "most beautiful lady" in Scottish Gaelic.
  In September 1905, she sank without trace and with all hands, leaving a spray of wreckage scattered along the south coast of Kangaroo Island. In 1976, her extensively damaged remains were discovered in an average depth of 12 metres of water near West Bay, Kangaroo Island in South Australia by the Society for Underwater Historical Research.
context_section_description: The first list of persons likely to be on the ship at the time of her loss appeared in the news media in late September 1905. This list which contained 23 names of individuals who could be either crew or passengers was compiled from letters waiting for collection by the ship at the offices of George Wills & Co., the ship's agent in Adelaide.  A subsequent newspaper article advised that apprentices S.C. Brown and Robert Andrews had respectively transferred from Loch Vennachar to Loch Garry and Loch Torridon despite their names being included on the previously published list. In late November 1905, the following list was published in a number of newspapers in Australia and in papers in both New Zealand and Scotland. This list which 'was received at Fremantle by the English mail' indicates that there were no passengers on the last voyage.
  W. S Hawkins, master, Glasgow
  James Priest, mate, North Shields
  Charles Radcliffe, second mate, USA
  Fred. W. Lake, third mate, Melbourne
  James Reid, carpenter, Dumbarton
  W. Molseed, steward, Greenock
  W. McLean, cook, Glasgow
  R. Simpson, sailmaker, Greenock
  Eugen Broberg, A.B., Stockholm
  Donald Mathieson, A.B., Skye
  A. Anderson, A.B., Kragero
  E: McEwan, A.B., Greenock
  Thomas Anderson, A .B., Arandel
  Hugh Humphreys, A.B., Portmadoc
  Alexander Dunlop, A.B., Rothesay
  M. Jenson, A.B., Aarhus
  David Hanson, A.B., Bergen
  E. Holden, A.B., Newark, N.J.
  John Bickle, A.B., Edinburgh
  William Barry, A.B., Adelaide
  Edward McPhie, O.S., Morven
  William Turnbull, O.S., Grangemouth
  William Martin, O.S., Glasgow
  Joseph W. Hadley, apprentice, Wivenhoe
  Thomas. W. Pearce, apprentice, Southampton
  D. S. B. Thomson, apprentice, Melbourne
  Horace Eastwood, apprentice, Knottingley
  In the above list, the abbreviations A.B. and O.S. refer respectively to Able seaman and Ordinary seaman.
  The passing of Thomas Pearce received attention in the Australian press due to his father, Tom Pearce, being well known as one of the two survivors of the Loch Ard wrecking in 1878, and as his grandfather, Robert George Augustus Pearce , was the captain of SS Gothenburg at the time of her loss in 1875.
caption: Captain W. Hawkins and Chief Officer James Priest
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