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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 27th February 1847 :
“WRECK OF A COASTER. - The cutter Flying Fox, about 20 tons, Pulman, master, left Sydney on the 15th instant, for Shoalhaven, with two female passengers on board, and a quantity of merchandise. At two a.m. on the the 17th, she was caught in a southerly squall off Botany, when she hove to with her head off the land to wait for daylight, the squall being attended with thick weather. At three a.m., the current had set her so close to the land, that she shortly struck on a reef of the South Head of Botany Bay. The sea lifted her over this reef, but she almost instantly struck an inner one, where she bilged, and was again lifted off by the sea, and driven on the beach, where the crew and passengers got safely on shore. The vessel has become a total wreck; she belonged to the Messrs. Glanville, of Shoalhaven, who will be considerable sufferers from the loss; the master will also lose very nearly all he possessed, as nothing was saved.”
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