Carlisle Technical Specification

Official No. 50253; Code Letters WHKD.

Owners: R Nicholson & Sons (William Henry Nicholson) Liverpool.

Masters: 2 July 1864 Joseph Brown; 5 September 1867 Charles H Walker; 24 August 1868 John Jones; 3 May 1869 Henry Mcateer (Bombay) (C.N. 24413); 4 December 1869 John Woodward Eden (b. 1832 Peterbrough C.N. 85639 changed to 10852); 12 May 1871 Henry Mcateer; 14 July 1873 George Davies; 19 January 1874 Thomas Jones; 1874 W Walpole; 1877 H Shapcott; 1878 JS Dawes; 31 August 1878 John Woodward Eden (C.N. 85639); 1878-82 John Phease; 16 October 1882 George D Dickie (C.N. 016856); 1882-85 John Colville; 1885 T Patterson; 30 January 1886-89 August Arendrup (b.1841 Denmark C.N. 85018 Leith 1872); 1890 David Lindsay; 1890 August Arendrup.

Voyages: March 1875 arrived Rangoon; 12 August 1875 arrived Liverpool from Rangoon; sailed from London arriving Sydney, NSW 27 September 1877; 2 October 1879 arrived Holyhead from Rangoon; 14 May 1881 bound from Rangoon for Bremen she encountered a severe gale & had to put into Durban for repairs.

Bound from Melbourne for Newcastle, Australia in ballast with a crew of 21 all told the Carlisle was thought to have struck Crocodile Rocks off Wilson’s promontory (situated at the southernmost tip of mainland Australia) & sank in deep water on 6 August 1890. All of the crew left in the ship’s boats with 13 in one boat landing on the Ninety Mile Beach on the Gippsland coast on 8 August. The eight occupants in the second boat landed at Cliffy Island & were eventually picked by the Victorian Government steamer Lady Loch. No lives were lost. At the subsequent inquiry it was found that the rocks that had been the cause of the wreck were not on the Crocodile Islands but an uncharted danger some distance from there. A Government steamer was sent out to chart the rocks.