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Star (New Zealand), 2nd July 1891 :
“SYDNEY, JULY 2.
“Wreck Feared.
“The ketch Prince Alfred, with a crew of four hands, is missing, and it is feared that she foundered in the same gale in which the steamer Taramung was lost early last month.”
Poverty Bay Herald (New Zealand), 11th July 1891 :
“A report dated Tuesday week says : - ‘News from the coast has been received of a disaster, which there is too much reason to believe has been attended with the loss of four sailors’ lives. During the bad weather in which the s.s. Taramung disappeared and thirty lives perished, a vessel named the Prince Alfred, a ketch of 56 tons, was on a voyage from Sydney to Mosquito Bay, a bay lying inside Bateman’s Bay. There was no cargo on board, nothing but ballast, it being the intention to load a cargo of timber in Mosquito Bay for Sydney. The exact date the vessel was seen off Jervis Bay seems to be in some doubt, but it was approximately a month ago. She was in company with two other small coasters, the name of one being May Howard, the other not stated. They were all out in a frightful gale, and were doing all they could to fetch into Jervis bay for shelter. The May Howard was successful in getting in, but the Prince Alfred and the third vessel went about apparently with a view to run before it back to Sydney. The vessel then in company with the Prince Alfred arrived safely in Sydney, but the ketch has not been heard of since. She was making very bad weather of it when last seen by the May Howard, and it is now almost certain she was overwhelmed by the frightful seas, and either capsized or dashed to pieces on some part of the inhospitable coast. She was owned by the master, Captain Charles Brown.”
Tuapeka Times (New Zealand), 22nd July 1891 :
“The late gales, it is feared, have been the cause of another shipwreck. The ketch Prince Alfred, a well-known coaster, is missing, and has been for nearly a month, and it is believed she foundered with all hands aboard the same night that the steamer Taramung perished. The Prince Alfred left Sydney on 5th June for Mosquito Bay, near Bateman Bay, to load timber. She was last seen, two days later, beating off Jervis Bay, which she tried to make in very bad weather. The Prince Alfred carried a crew of four all told : - Captain Charles Brown, master; S. Page, mate; L. Pascal, cook; and J. Gilbert, able seaman. Captain Brown was married, and leaves a wife and family in Sydney. The ketch was a wooden vessel of fifty-six tons burthen, owned by T. J. Dickson, of Sydney.”
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