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The Brisbane Courier, 9th June 1891 :
“There seems now to be no doubt that the steamer Taramung has been wrecked, and it is feared that all hands were lost. A wire received this afternoon from a fisherman named Joachil Moses, living at Tolokin, situated 136 miles south of Sydney, reports that a quantity of wreckage has been washed on to the beach. It includes the vessel’s wheel, 4ft. in diameter, the remains of a ship’s boat with oars marked ‘Taramung,’ and also a ship’s barometer freshly broken up. A telegram has been sent in reply instructing the man to look out for the pilot steamer and report the wreckage with a view to to its being overhauled. The police have also been communicated with, and instructed to make further search on the beach.”
“A telegram was posted outside the Telegraph Office last evening, stating that the Taramung has arrived safely at Melbourne yesterday afternoon, but subsequently it was learned that the steamer Easby had been mistaken for the Taramung. The only passenger by the Taramung was Miss Moss, who had been on a visit to her sister at Newcastle. On the morning of the day the Taramung left Newcastle this young lady received news of the death of her father at Melbourne, and booked by this vessel as being the quickest means of returning. The following is a list of those on board the Taramung when she left Newcastle on Saturday week : - Captain J. Page; first mate, A. M. Patterson; second mate, Alexander Scott; steward, Thomas Scott; cook, J. Humphries; steward, D. Cairns; boatswain, B. G. Larsen, engineer, J. M’Eachran; second engineer, David Cree; third engineer, T. Robinson; able seamen, G. L. Nash, B. Highs, S. Liddle, J. Stevenson, H. Johnston, J. Rostock, A. Conn; firemen and trimmers, J. Trimmer, Alex. Hume, P. M’Farlane, C. Anderson, and M. Bostock; passenger, Miss L. Moss.”
“The worst fears entertained regarding the fate of the steamer Taramung, which left Newcastle for Melbourne on Saturday week, heavily laden with coals, have, it appears, been realised. The following message was received by the Post and Telegraph Department yesterday ; - ‘Nowra reports found wreckage on beach at Wreck Bay; vessel’s wheel, about 4ft. in diameter; also wreckage of ship’s boat, a barometer, all freshly broken; also oars marked s.s. Taramung.’ The Taramung was an iron screw-steamer of 1281 tons burden, classed 100 A1 at Lloyd’s, built in 1880, and owned by Messrs. Paterson and Co. The pilot steamer Captain Cook is now searching for the Taramung alnong the coast between Sydney and Gabo Island.”
“The steamer Taramung, bound from Newcastle to Melbourne is believed to have been wrecked, and it is feared that all hands were lost.”
The Brisbane Courier, 10th June 1891 :
“The steamer Captain Cook returned [to Sydney] from Gabo Island to-day without being able to discover anything of the missing steamer Taramung. Captain Greer, who was in charge of the pilot steamer, says that even if the crew of the Taramung succeeded in getting into boats, it would be impossible for them to keep afloat in such seas as have prevailed during the last few days.”
“The steamer Taramung, portion of the wreckage of which was found a few days ago on the beach at Wreck Bay, was for a long time engaged in the coal trade between Newcastle and Melbourne (says a telegram in the S. M. Herald). She sailed from Newcastle with a full cargo of coal at 11 p.m. on Saturday week, and ought to have arrived at Melbourne on the following Tuesday, but from the time she sailed until the wreckage was found nothing whatever was seen or heard of her. She has not reported herself at any of the headlands as usual with coasters, and no ships arriving in Newcastle or Melbourne have seen her. Shortly after she left Newcastle the weather was fair, but subsequently a very fierce south-east gale set in, raising a tremendous sea. She was deeply laden, and vessels far more favourably circumstanced has all they could do to hold their own. Even the Carthage arrived last week from Sydney between twenty and thirty hours late. The Taramung had sufficient boats to carry 113 persons, including two lifeboats. There were thirty persons all told on board. The captain is J. Page; the chief office, A. Peterson; second officer, A. Scott; chief engineer, David Cree; second engineer, M’Kenzie; third engineer, J. Robinson; steward, T. Scott; cook, Humphries. There were twenty-three deck hands firemen. The vessel was only partly insured and the cargo was not insured at all.”
The Brisbane Courier, 12th May 1892 :
“At the last meeting of the Victorian Marine Board a letter was read from the owners of the Taramung, which was lost some months ago, and about which nothing was definitely known, referring to the discovery of wreckage off Jervis Bay. The wreckage had, said the owners stated, been identified as a portion of the lost steamer, and its condition indicated that she had been wrecked upon the rocks at or near Perpendicular Point. Mr. H. R. Reid, a member of the board, remarked that it was a satisfaction, though a melancholy one, to find that the steamer had been lost through contact with rocks, and not through having been over loaded or driven at an excessive speed in bad weather.”
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