LANCIER (1834 -1839)
Barque Belzoni entering Harbour of Port Louis Mauritius 1827
Description
3 masted Barque
Construction
Timber
Size
285 tons length 29.6m.breath 7.3m
Built
1834 by Crook and Naz, Port Louis, Mauritius
Owner
Salome Hypolite Giguel Master: Captain Durocher
Sunk
25th August 1839
Location
Mewstone Reef near Rottnest Island
Latitude/Longitude
(-32.079841667, 115.633525)
Sinking
On Voyage from Mauritius to Hobart intending to call into Fremantle, Captain attempted passage in without a pilot vessel struck a submerged rock with such violence sank by the stern, all hands abandoned her as a total wreck. About £ 7000 in specie is said to have been lost. No official reports mention this and appear to be just rumours. Many post-war expeditions to locate the wreck and its lost gold resulted in no results even the nearby wreck Zedora being wrongly disturbed
Underwater
Little remains of the structure of the vessel as a result of prevalent weather conditions which expose the reef to swell and surge. The depth range 7 to 8 metres with wreck on a sandy bottom spread over 25 metres length.
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