GENERAL GORDON 1885-1889
Two-masted top sail Schooner c1800
Description
Two-masted top sail Schooner
Construction
Timber
Size
60 ton length 20.1m beam 5.9m depth 2.3m
Built
1885 at Cape Hawke, Sydney
Owner
Alfred C. Jolly of Darwin Master: Captain Ware
Sunk
1889/20/06
Location
At sea off Geraldton
Latitude/Longitude
(-29.120053, 114.418916)
Sinking
En route from Mc Arthur River to Sydney with only stone ballast. A nor-west gale struck the vessel and the rudder sheared off, using drogues to steer the vessel, leaking badly the General Gordon was abandoned about 50km from Geraldton, crew of 6 reached shore in the dingy
Underwater
wreck not located