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The following report was transcribed from the The Argus, 23rd May 1865 :
“LOSS OF THE JULIE HEYN. - A telegram has been received at the Port announcing the loss of the Julie Heyn on the 15th instant, off Cape St. George, near Sydney, all hands being saved. The vessel left Newcastle may 1, with 515 tons coals, for Port Adelaide, and the telegram states that most fearful weather was experienced after leaving, and the vessel made much water. Captain Hill bore up for Bass’s Straits, but on the 15th the leak gained upon them, and the vessel went down off Cape St. George, and it was with great difficulty the crew were saved. The telegram is dated from Kiama, N.S.W. The Julie Heyn was the property of Mr. H. Simpson, of Port Adelaide, and was, we understand, insured for about two-thirds of her value. She had very recently undergone thorough repairs and coppered on Fletcher’s slip. - S.A. Register, May 20.”
Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, 1st July 1865 :
“LOSS OF THE BARQUE JULIA HAYN [sic]. - The loss of this vessel on the coast of New South Wales, on the 17th of May last, is another addition to the long list of disasters which befel the shipping on the coast of Australia and New Zealand during the gales which prevailed in the course of the above-named month. The Julia Hayn left Newcastle on the 1st of May, bound for Adelaide, laden with coal, under the command of Captain G. C. Hill, with a crew of ten men. After leaving Newcastle, experienced strong southerly gales, the sea washing away poop skylight, and destroying one boat. Rounded Cape Howe on the 11th, and sighted Deal Island, Kent’s Group, on the following day; met a strong gale from the S.W., veering from S.W. to W.N.W. The vessel was then laid-to until the evening of the 15th, labouring heavily, and taking so much water that the crew were unable to leave the pumps, to which at times they were compelled to be lashed. The captain, finding that the water had gained seven inches during the preceding two hours, and feeling assured that the vessel under those circumstances could live until morning if lying-to, bore up for Sydney, reaching Cape St. George about noon on Wednesday, the crew during the whole of this time having incessantly worked at the pumps. When about twelve miles to the north of Cape St. George, the wind fell light. During this period the water had been gaining steadily on the pumps, notwithstanding the exertions of the crew, who, if favoured with some eight hours’ fair wind, might have safely reached Sydney. At eight p.m., finding that the vessel had nearly nine feet of water in the hold, and the crew being nearly exhausted with their continued labour at the pumps, and the vessel rapidly settling down, the captain determined to abandon her as the only means of preserving life. In less than an hour after the captain had left the vessel, she went down. The boat’s head was put for the land, and, after eighteen hours’ pulling against a strong breeze off land, she grounded the Gerringong beach in a very heavy surf - the captain and the crew thus providentially escaping with their lives, the boat being immediately afterwards totally destroyed by the surf. They just reached the shore in time to escape death by drowning, for, shortly after landing, the wind changed, blowing a gale from the southward, and raising a sea in which it would be impossible for any boat to live.”
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