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The Brisbane Courier, 20th October 1868 :
“THE LATE REPORTED WRECK OFF NORAH HEAD. - Captain Andrews, of the schooner Union, which arrived here yesterday, reports that on Saturday last, when about fifteen miles W.S.W. of Wollongong, he discovered the wreck, supposed to be the one reported in this journal as having been noticed by Captain Jamieson, of the Bengal, about twenty miles off Norah Head. The wreck was that of a vessel about a length of keel of seventy feet. She was bottom upwards, , and on her stern the word ‘Brisbane,’ in large white letters, was clearly visible, the name being washed off [The National Shipwrecks Database identifies this vessel as the Elizabeth]. The weather was very fine, and Captain Andrews, having lowered a boat, managed to get on the bottom of the wrecked vessel, and cut a hole in her, by which means he was enabled to perceive that she was laden with tongued and grooved timber. He towed her about ten miles, with the intention of taking her into Jervis’ Bay, but the tow rope having parted, and the night coming on, he was unable to pick her up again. She was a topsail schooner, with New Zealand pine spars, with white rail all round. There was no metal on her bottom, but her stern and rudder was covered with zinc and sheathed with one-inch boards. From there being no reefs in the sails Captain Andrews supposes that the vessel must have been in a violent squall, which capsized her instantly, and that the crew perished. He believes her to be worth about L1500. - Newcastle Chronicle, October 13.”
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