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SS Admella in a heavy sea
History
Australia
Name
SS Admella
Owner
Robert Little and 7 others
Route
Adelaide–Melbourne–Launceston
Builder
Lawrence Hill and Company, Port Glasgow
A & J Inglis
Cost
£15,000
Launched
17 September 1857
In service
March 1858
Fate
Wrecked off Carpenter Rocks, South Australia on 6 August 1859
Status
historic shipwreck[1]
General characteristics
Class and type
Steamship
Tonnage
395 GRT
Length
60 m (200 ft)
Beam
8 m (26 ft)
Depth
4.2 m (14 ft)
Installed power
twin 100 hp (75 kW) steam engines
Propulsion
Steamer Screw
Sail plan
Three sails
Speed
17 knots (31 km/h)
Capacity
113
Crew
29
SS Admella was an Australian passenger steamship that was shipwrecked on a submerged reef off the coast of Carpenter Rocks, south west of Mount Gambier South Australia, in the early hours of 6 August 1859. Survivors clung to the wreck for over a week and many people took days to die as they glimpsed the land from the sea and watched as one rescue attempt after another failed.
With the loss of 89 lives, mostly due to cold and exposure, it is one of the worst maritime disasters in Australian history. Admella disaster remains the greatest loss of life in the history of European settlement in South Australia. Of the 113 on board 24 survived, including only one woman, Bridget Ledwith. Of the 89 dead, 14 were children. The 150th anniversary of the disaster was marked in August 2009 by events across the south east of South Australia and at Portland, Victoria.[2]
^"COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 NOTICE UNDER SUB-SECTION 5(1)". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. S148. Australia. 13 July 1983. p. 1. Retrieved 15 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
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