Hereward (ship)
Hereward, was a full-rigged iron clipper built in Glasgow in 1877. A British trading vessel that travelled between Britain and her colonies -- especially between Sydney and London -- it measured , wide, deep and weighed 1,513 tons. It was shipwrecked on Maroubra Beach, Sydney on Thursday 5 May 1898. 5 May 1898. The "Hereward" was wrecked while travelling from Sourabaya, a port in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to Newcastle New South Wales where it was to have picked up a load of coal bound for South America. While travelling north along the New South Wales coast on  5 May, it encountered a large storm with wind speeds as high as . The winds destroyed the sails of the ship and blew it towards the shore leaving its Irish captain, Poole Hickman Gore (1861-1920), unable to avert the disaster. The "Hereward" was forced onto the northern end of Maroubra Beach. It avoided the two rocky reefs present there. All 25 crew members were safely brought ashore and made their way to the nearby wool scouring works to make the shipwreck known. The ship had been insured by its owner for £6,000. Salvage. After a few months, the  ship was sold for £550 to Mahlon Clarke Cowlishaw (1844-1900), of Cowlishaw Brothers, the Sydney merchants and ship-owners, who bought the wreck for salvage. On 9 December 1898, they attempted to refloat the "Hereward". With the two tugs, "Commodore" and "Irresistible", pulling on cables connected to the anchor , and using steam winches on board, they got the ship into of water; however, as the ship was nearly free, a southerly gale blew up and pushed the "Hereward" back onto the beach — where it was battered by high seas and broken in two. The wreck. The wreck was  slowly washed out to sea afterwards and by 1937 only a triangle dorsal fin was visible above sea level. In 1950, Randwick Council feared of the danger that the remains posed to surfers and swimmers and had the remains blasted such that by 1967 it appeared that there was nothing left of the ship. In recent times, on various occasions, due to large swells and sweeping currents, large amounts of sand had moved off the sea floor and had exposed extensive portions of the "Hereward" which were once thought to be destroyed and lost forever. In March 2013 after large  seas, extensive portions of the ship's metal hull, along with mast and engine pieces were exposed to a greater extent than they ever had been before. This provided an interesting and enjoyable snorkeling experience for Maroubra locals and tourists alike. Maroubra Lifeguards erected a sign on the shore in front of the wreck stating "Danger - Submerged Object". Local Maroubra surfer and photographer Jeremy Wilmotte took a series of underwater photos of the wreck at this time. Hereward Street. Hereward Street in Maroubra is named after the event.