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Captain Vickers was severely reprimanded for his mishandling of the ship, the Court finding<br />
that he did not make allowance for leeway in a southerly swell, neglected to take soundings<br />
and was not sufficiently prompt in putting his ship about. The rescue attempts were also<br />
criticised: only part of the rocket outfit had reached the site in the fading daylight and two or<br />
three boats which were notified of the wreck failed to reach it in time.<br />
Much looting occurred of cargo that washed ashore particularly of the spirits, sailcloth, toys and<br />
tobacco. Some coiled plain fencing wire was salvaged from the wreck in 1894. Today<br />
hundreds of these coils, encrusted and solidified, are strewn over the site and the hull is broken<br />
apart, but the vessel's iron ribs-can be seen, with some of the cargo of concrete and pig iron.<br />
The scene of the wreck is marked by an anchor, erected by Warrnamboo1 skin divers in 1967.
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