A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the Island of Amsterdam / by Alfred J.P. Lutwyche.

A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the Island of Amsterdam / by Alfred J.P. Lutwyche.

Sydney : Waugh & Cox, 1854

English

48 pages

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Lutwyche sailed to Australia in June 1853 on board the Meridian which was wrecked off Amsterdam Island on 24 August. Three of 108 passengers lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by Captain Isaac Ludlow of the American whaler Monmouth and taken to Mauritius where the government found them passages to Sydney. Lutwyche arrived on board the 'Colvin' on 30 December 1853. He wrote an account of the wreck and their rescue which appeared in the 'Morning Chronicle' December, 1853. The following year it was reprinted in London and a French language ed. was also published. This scarce Sydney printing was a revised and expanded version of the narrative in the newspaper. This edition may have been published for limited distribution within Lutwyche's family.

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