SURAT

[Nighttrucker]

SURAT Built by Palmers at Jarrow 1863 YN126
Photograph from the Greene Collection state of Victoria Library

[Whickham]

For details of her loss see: http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/cbluff/surat.html

[magoonigal]

Bit more detail in this one and it also makes interesting reading, especially the bit about the Immigrants belongings being sold........

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.anc ... eSurat.htm

"On Monday, January 5th, the ship and all it contained was sold to Messers Guthrie and Larnach (of the National Bank) for £7,500. A lifeboat and pinnace, the property of the New Zealand Insurance Company, which were used for transhipping the passengers to the Vire, were subsequently sold to the same buyers for £21. On the 13th, responding to complaint and appeals, the General Government attempted to achieve for these new citizens rights to their baggage which, it was claimed, had been illegally sold with with the wreck. An injunction was eventually brought against those who arranged the sale of the ship to restrain them from also disposing of the luggage but we can find no record as to its safe return to its owners. In all their loss was valued at £2,500 and one gentleman lost a box containing £264 in sovereigns."