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The following report was transcribed from the Sydney Gazette, 30th June 1840 :
“COASTERS. - We feel surprised that owners of small vessels employed in the coasting trade are not more particular in the selection of masters for their vessels. We call the attention to the total loss of the cutter Charlotte at Wollongong a few days ago, the particulars of which we have been favoured with by a gentleman who has just arrived from that place. The Charlotte was hauled close into the beach at low water, for the purpose of receiving on board some potatoes. At high water the vessel (with the assistance of a number of men on shore) was hauled off to the moorings, to which she was moored by a small rope or hawser, and left by her master and crew to the mercy of the then unsettled state of the weather. On the following day the wind blew strong from S.E., and the master and crew were on shore drinking; the unfortunate vessel broke adrift, and in a few minutes became a total wreck, having been hove upon the rocks at the north side of the harbour. This vessel, we understand, was purchased only a few weeks ago by her unfortunate owner for the sum of L200.”
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