The ship was driven ashore on the coast of
India before 9 September. She was on a voyage from
Calcutta to
New York.Albion was refloated and put back to Calcutta. She was consequently condemned.[1]
The derelict
brig was purchased at
Buffalo, New York in September by businessmen intending to put on a spectacle for people to watch by cutting her adrift in the
Niagara River above
Niagara Falls with the intention of the ship going over the Falls. When cast adrift on an unknown date she drifted aground on a shoal, eventually breaking up.[5]
The whaling barque was last sighted at sea on 30 November 1840 in a typhoon. In November 1842 Mary's wreck was found on
Lachlan Island,
Van Diemen's Land. Captain and several crew had died there, and others were reported to have made a boat and eventually departed around April 1842.[10][11][12]
^"Maritime Extracts". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. No. 1168. London. 9 December 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22457. London. 9 November 1841.
The ship was driven ashore on the coast of
India before 9 September. She was on a voyage from
Calcutta to
New York.Albion was refloated and put back to Calcutta. She was consequently condemned.[1]
The derelict
brig was purchased at
Buffalo, New York in September by businessmen intending to put on a spectacle for people to watch by cutting her adrift in the
Niagara River above
Niagara Falls with the intention of the ship going over the Falls. When cast adrift on an unknown date she drifted aground on a shoal, eventually breaking up.[5]
The whaling barque was last sighted at sea on 30 November 1840 in a typhoon. In November 1842 Mary's wreck was found on
Lachlan Island,
Van Diemen's Land. Captain and several crew had died there, and others were reported to have made a boat and eventually departed around April 1842.[10][11][12]
^"Maritime Extracts". Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. No. 1168. London. 9 December 1841. p. 3. Retrieved 21 February 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^"Shipping Intelligence". The Morning Chronicle. No. 22457. London. 9 November 1841.