- SS Alert
The "
SS Alert " was asteamship that sunk off Cape Schanck, Victoria,Australia on28 December ,1893 .Cite news |title=Deep thrill for Alert adventurers |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/deep-thrill-for-alert-adventurers/2007/06/12/1181414296935.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1|publisher=The Age |date=2007-06-12 |first=Ben |last=Doherty] The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottishloch s and was almost Convert|51|m|ft|0|abbr=on long and weighed 247 tonnes.After the "Alert" sunk the ship laid for 113 years on the ocean floor until being rediscovered in June 2007 by a team from Southern Ocean Exploration.
History
The "Alert" was built at
Glasgow in 1877 and later sailed to Australia as a three-mastedschooner with her funnel and propeller stowed in the hold.Cite web |url=http://oceans1.customer.netspace.net.au/vic-wrecks.html |title=Shipwrecks of Victoria] After a few years on theMelbourne -Geelong route she temporarily replaced the "SS Despatch " on theGippsland -Melbourne run in 1893 whilst the "Despatch" was being refitted.During a
gale , the ship set out from Lakes Entrance bound forMelbourne via Port Albert [cite web | title = Alert | work = Heritage Council of Victoria | url =http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/page_239.asp?submit_action=detailed_result&ID=239&KW1=alert&query=e82db8dc6517362a4a25678b00095532/9bebb0d673ef1bc2ca2572f7007d4d72?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,alert] and later encounteredhurricane -force southerly winds and mountainous seas. [cite web | title = Jubilee Point, Vic: Shipwreck in Gale | work = EMA Disasters Database | url =http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/c85916e930b93d50ca256d050020cb1f/9417bd8eea5b877aca256d3300058364?OpenDocument | publisher =Australian Government ] Of the 16 people on board, the only survivor was Robert Ponting, the ship's cook, who was washed ashore at Sorrento Back Beach after clinging to a portion of cabin door.References
External links
* [http://media.fairfax.com.au/?rid=28908 Video of the discovery of the Alert]
* [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/miscpics/0/0/6/doc/mp006475.shtml State Library of Victoria: The "Foundering of the S.S. Alert Vic." (illustration)]
* [http://www.southernoceanexploration.com/alert.php Southern Ocean Exploration: "SS Alert"]
*Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/06/12/1181414299928.html |title=A Scottish secret surfaces |publisher=The Age |date=2007-06-13
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