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The Wreck of the Dunbar N FRIDAY, August 21, 1857, the Crew of an Incoming O Vessel Noticed Masses of Wreckage and Debris Floating About Between the Sydney Heads ~Y-dneJ.:'S worst shiP-P-ing disaster saw onlY- one of 122 survive The wreck of the Dunbar N FRIDAY, August 21, 1857, the crew of an incoming O vessel noticed masses of wreckage and debris floating about between the Sydney Heads. Tnere were ship's timbers, bales of goods. children's toys. HISTORICAL even furniture - and, later in the day, more items began turning up all over the harbor. It seemed certain that a ship had been wrecked near the harbor entrance and two pilots at Watson's Bay began searching along the cliffs and around the rocks at South Head. They soon saw spars, cargo and bodies floating in the waves offshore. The identity of the ill-fated ship was not had come perilously close to learned until later in the the rocky coast. Just before midnight. there day, however, when a was a momentary wink of light mailbag was washed up at thro\l.gh the murk. Its direction Watson's Bay marked with indiCated that the ship had the name Dunbar. passed to the north of the So was discovered Sydney's lighthouse, and Captain Green worst shipping disaster and, knew he was close to the indeed, one of the most tragic entrance to Sydney harbor. shipwrecks in Australia's Later, it was suggested that history. All but one of the 122 the skipper had mistaken The passengers and crew on the Gap for the Heads and turned I Dunbar - 81 days out from to port too soon. From James Johnson, who survived by clinging to a rock ledge at London - perished when it evidence subsequently given The Gap, and told of the Dunbar's final hours. was smashed to pieces at The by James Johnson at the Gap, just south of Sydney's inquest, it was clear this was front door, at the Heads. not so. and uproar on deck, with the er's Court. "Immediately on A fine, three-masted sailing Because of the storm, shrieks of the passengers". the sea receding, I got a bit vessel of 1321 tonnes, the Captain Green could not see At the first shock of impact, higher, out of reach of the Dunbar had been built the light, let alone any the topmasts snapped and water." There, alone, he specially for the England­ A painting of the ill-fated barque, which was making only its imagined opening in the dark crashed down in a tangle of braced himself desperately to cliffs. What happened was Australia trade. It had left second voyage to Australia. ropes. Huge seas pounded the hold on, as the surging surf Plymouth on its second that the wind and a strong stricken ship, smashing tried to dislodge him. voyage to Sydney on May 31 current were slowly taking the Aimost at the foot of The He told the full story of the bulwarks and boats and All that night and all the under Captain James Green Gap, Wollier found a man on a loss of the Dunbar. All the Dunbar broadside into the washing a number of people and carried 63 passengers, a cliff. following day and night, the ledge, not far above the way up .the east coast of over the side. shivering Johnson remained crew of 59 and mixed cargo waterline but out of sight of the Australia, the ship had battled Captain Green had not On the captain's orders, one valued at $144,000. made any tum. He sent Third on the ledge. Below him, he watchers above. Signals and constant gales, which of the crew lit a blue signal could see dead bodies floating Many of the passengers were shouts brought a rope snaking threatened to drive it inshore. Mate Pascoe for'ard with two flare. But it made only a brief, well-known Sydney citizens, men and ordered them to keep futile flash in the darkness off-shore, and he realised he returning froxp holidays in down and -the youth helped the Captain Green had not been a sharp look-out for North was the only survivor. It was survivor secure himself to it so off the deck for more than two and, even if it had been seen noon on the Saturday, before England. News of the wreck, he could be hauled to safety. hours in the whole two days Head. Clearly, he intended to on shore, there was no time which was published in the make his tum only when they for anything to be done to aid he was rescued. Over the rest newspapers on Saturday, Wollier continued his search before the WI-eck. saw North Head, and he knew of the weekend, 31 bodies were for another 45 minutes. the doomed Dunbar. recovered. August 22, cast a shadow of making sure there was no one At about eight o'clock on the he was in the opening to Captain Green and his tragedy over the city. Early else down there and then evening of Thursday, August Sydney harbor. officers tried to quell the An inquest into the 121 that morning, South Head climbed back to the top. He 20, land was sighted near Twice, James Johnson heard passengers' panic. "The deaths was held at the King's Road was thronged with was warmly cheered and the Botany Bay. Slowly, the the captain shout: "Mister Dunbar cannot break up," the Arms Hotel, Lower George horse-drawn vehicles, as well Lord Mayor of Sydney. Dunbar headed north in Pascoe, do you see North skipper told one group of men Street. on the Monday as crowds of pedestrians, Alderman Thornton, took up a heavy seas, on the last few Head?" Each time, the answer and women. "She'll last until following the wreck, August making for the cliffs at The collection from the crowd in kilometres of its long voyage. was"No!" morning." 24. The jurors first went to Gap to try to get a glimpse of appreciation of his courage. Below, despite a rising But, as a veteran seaman. examine the recovered the wreck. More than $20 was donated easterly wind whirling up out till the ship ploughed Green even then must have corpses, or parts of corpses, at More than 1000 spectators and handed to Wollier who. of the Tasman Sea, and the on. Then suddenly felt the deck quivering the morgue. According to one gathered on the clifftop to driving rain it brought, the S came another shout newspaper report, "one juror overcome with emotion. beneath his feet. Hammering peer down at the grim scene managed to stammer out in passengers, knowing they from for'ard: "Breakers water below was forcing the fainted, while others were so as corpses of men, women and his halting English: "I thank would be docking next ahead, sir! Breakers ahead! planks to straining point. deeply moved that they were children - many of them you all, but I did not go down morning, were celebrating And very close." Then came a tell-tale creaking compelled to leave the place". horribly mangled - were for money. I did it for the with revelry and song the end Captain Green barked and, within five minutes after When he gave his evidence, dashed against the rocks and feelings in my heart." of nearly three months on orders to the helmsman to striking the rocks, the Dunbar James Johnson loyally stood then washed back again by board. swing the Dunbar away but it began to disintegrate. up for his skipper. "Captain the surge of the waves. was too late. Through the Green could not stand off the eanwhile, the res­ On deck, the weather wor­ The final break-up came with In the crowd was a 17-year­ cued man, Able-Sea­ gloom, the cliffs could then be a roar like the explosion of a land more than he did," he old apprentice watchmaker, M sened and sight of the coast­ seen towering above the ship cannon. Seaman James said. "He did all he could in man James Johnson. Antonie Wollier, a recent line was lost. Occasionally, the and looming closer. Two the easterly wind." had been taken from south Head light was visible Johnson found himself in the arrival from Iceland. Thinking the clifftop to the Marine minutes . after the skipper's foaming water, clinging to a there could be survivors down momentarily through lashing command, the Dunbar hit the Hotel at Watson's Bay. A doc­ rain squalls. Captain Green large spar. With him were two he jury was non-com­ on the rocks and not visible tor examined him and he was rocks. It was then just after Dutch crew members and the from the top, he made up his was worried because he knew mittal in ·its verdict. It found to be uninjured and not midnight on August 21. ship's elderly bosun, Charles T decided that, although he was on a dangerous lee mind to climb down and see. seriously affected by his Shouts of panic, as Sappy. Leaving his hat, coat and shore and constant vigilance passengers came tumbling on there might have been ordeal. was necessary to keep the ship Within a couple of minutes, an error of judgment, in the boots with a friend, he went He was 23-years-old and a deck, mingled with the both the Dutchmen were along the cliffs and found a away from the shore. howling of the storm. In his vessel being so close to shore, spot where the drop was not so husky, well-built 185cm in washed away and disappeared it attached no blame to Cap­ height.
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