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The following account was transcribed from The Argus, 8th May 1860 :
“LOSS OF THE SOLON. - The Solon, Oldenburg barque, of 565 tons, Captain Rohde left this port [Sydney] on the 24th ult., at 10 a.m., bound for Geelong, with a cargo of 85 tons coals, 35 tons hay, and a quantity of ship’s stores, for the Armin, now lying at Melbourne. The wind she left these heads, was from the S.W.; towards the afternoon it shifted to the S.E. quarter, when the vessel’s head was kept off shore, and as the gale increased sail was reduced, until she was under close-reefed topsails and reefed courses. A heavy easterly swell continued to set in, and the ship was kept working to the southward until the morning of the 28th, when, about 3 a.m., breakers were discovered; every inch of canvas the vessel could bear was at once set, and endeavours made to ____ her off the land, but without effect, and shortly after she was lifted bodily on the rocks, her head being at the time to the southward. The ship was driver over the outer batch of rocks into deep water, but still separated some distance from the mainland. The vessel broke up rapidly, and the crew with great difficulty saved their lives, with the exception of one lad, named Louis Lase, a native of Bremen, who was unfortunately drowned. When daylight appeared, Captain Rohde found the vessel had gone ashore on the south side of Crookhaven Head, near Shoalhaven. The hull of the Solon is in three parts, and but little hopes exist of saving anything beyond the spars and part of the rigging and sails. Captain Rohde arrived last night by the Nora Creina (s.), having left his officers and crew to save what they can. The ship is insured in Germany, but the loss of the cargo will fall on the shippers. As the sea is making a clear breach over the ship, there is but little hope of preserving any part of the hull. - Sydney Morning Herald, May 1.”
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