-
You must be logged in to Tag Records
A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the island of Amsterdam / by Alfred J.P. Lutwyche
Bib ID 1411560
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline
Author
Lutwyche, Alfred, 1810-1880
 
Online Versions
Description Sydney : Waugh and Cox, 1854. 
48 p. ; 17 cm. 
Summary

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. He wrote an account of the wreck and their rescue which appeared in the Morning chronicle in Dec. 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. This unrecorded edition not known to Ferguson may have been published for limited distribution within Lutwyche's family.

Notes

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.aus-vn4664601

Subjects Meridian (Ship)  |  Shipwrecks - Madagascar - Amsterdam Island.

In the Library

Request this item to view in the Library's reading rooms using your library card.

Details Collect From
SR 910.452 L974
Copy: N copy
Petherick Reading Room (Australian Rare or Fragile)

Order a copy

-

Copyright or permission restrictions may apply. We will contact you if necessary.


Members of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Maori communities are advised that this catalogue contains names and images of deceased people. All users of the catalogue should also be aware that certain words, terms or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author's/creator's attitude or that of the period in which they were written.