View Shipwreck – ALCANDRE

The brigantine ALCANDRE left Newcastle for Melbourne on August 17, 1877 under the command of Captain Jones, carrying coal to Melbourne. On 26 August whilst off Wilsons Promontory the vessel encountered heavy seas which caused it to leak badly.

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