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SS Alert
History
Australia
NameAlert
OwnerHuddart Parker
Port of registryMelbourne, Australia
BuilderRobert Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow
Launched1877
IdentificationOfficial number: 76169
FateSunk, 28 December 1893
General characteristics [1]
TypeSteamship
Tonnage243 tons[2]
Length169 ft (52 m)
Beam19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Depth9 ft 10 in (3.00 m)
PropulsionRankin & Blackmore compound steam engine, 90 nhp, 1 screw

SS Alert was a steamship that sank off Cape Schanck, Victoria, Australia on 28 December 1893.[1][3][4] The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottish lochs and was almost 51 m (167 ft) long and weighed 247 tonnes.

After Alert sank the ship laid for 113 years on the ocean floor until being rediscovered in June 2007 by a team from Southern Ocean Exploration.

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History

Alert was built at Port Glasgow in 1877 and later sailed to Australia as a three-masted schooner with her funnel and propeller stowed in the hold.[2] After a few years on the MelbourneGeelong route she temporarily replaced the SS <i>Despatch</i> on the Gippsland–Melbourne run in 1893 whilst Despatch was being refitted.

During a gale, the ship set out from Lakes Entrance bound for Melbourne via Port Albert.[1] She encountered hurricane-force southerly winds and mountainous seas and sank about four miles[3] off Cape Schanck.[3][5] Of the 16 people on board, the only survivor was Robert Ponting, the ship's cook, who was washed ashore at Sorrento "back" (ocean) beach after clinging to a portion of cabin door. He was found and revived by locals using brandy and the body heat of a St. Bernard dog.[6] Two bodies were also washed ashore at Sorrento back beach.[7]

An inquiry was held and attached no blame to the lighthouse keeper or the captain[8] but, after years of litigation, compensation was awarded to Ponting and the wife of one of the deceased.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alert Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number S17". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Shipwrecks of Victoria".
  3. ^ a b c "THE FOUNDERING OF THE S.S. ALERT". Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle. Vic. 13 January 1894. p. 4 Edition: morning. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Doherty, Ben (12 June 2007). "Deep thrill for Alert adventurers". The Age.
  5. ^ "Jubilee Point, Vic: Shipwreck in Gale". EMA Disasters Database. Australian Government.
  6. ^ "Foundering of the s.s. Alert". Wellington Times and Agricultural and Mining Gazette. Tas. 4 January 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "WRECK AT THE HEADS". Fitzroy City Press. Vic. 29 December 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "THE FOUNDERING OF THE S.S. ALERT". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 20 February 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "THE S.S. ALERT". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 May 1897. p. 7. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

External links

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