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The Brisbane Courier, 29th October 1870 :
“WRECK OF THE BARQUE SUMMER CLOUD. - From Captain Anthony, master of the above vessel, , which went ashore in Wreck Bay, on the 10th instant, we glean the following particulars of the catastrophe : - The Summer Cloud, with 60 tons of salt on board, left Melbourne on the 5th October, and experienced fine weather until the 7th, when the wind freshened from the N.N.E., with thick dirty weather, and continued so until the evening of the 8th, when the wind veered to the N.W., and on the 9th it went back to the N.E., and blew in strong gusts, the weather still being very thick, no land having been sighted since clearing Kent’s Group. On the 10th, wind S.S.E., sighted land on the weather bow, which afterwards proved to be the east side of Wreck Bay, the vessel at the time was steering N. by E., and being unable to get an offing, Captain Anthony at once squared away and ran her ashore on the beach, about five miles to the southward of where the ill-fated ship Walter Hood was wrecked, but before she took the beach she grazed on a reef; the fore and mainmasts were afterwards cut away to prevent her rolling, and it being the top of high water the crew, with the captain’s wife and owners, soon managed to reach the shore with a deal of difficulty, and were kindly treated by Mr. Lee, lighthouse-keeper at Jervis Bay, and Captain Books of the ketch Illalong. Captain Anthony states that when he left her on the 21st she was lying high and dry at low water, apparently uninjured, with about two feet of water in her. She is the property of Mr. Thomas Trelevean, of Newcastle, and is insured in the National Marine Insurance Company, of Adelaide, for the sum of L1500. - S. M. Herald, October 24.”
The Argus, 22nd October 1870 :
“The wreck of the Summer Cloud was sold by auction to-day [21st] for L300.”
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