#invercauld

This week, a shipwreck story in the Auckland Islands ends in one hell of a plot twist...

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'Invercauld' in Heavy Weather, What indication caused the journalist to  conclude that the castaways were slowly starving so turned to cannibalism to stay  alive? The ship had struck on the ironbound coast of the Auckland Islands”

The English mail which arrived in October, 1865, brought the news of the  second wreck, and of the strange fact that a second party of men had for one  year and 12 days been on the island with Capt. Musgrave and his party - each unknowing  of the presence of the other, although each had done what it could to explore,  on an island the whole area of which is roughly calculated to be not much more  than 100,000 acres.

West Coast Times, 23 September 1874, Page 2 A gallant ship bailing from the Land o' Cakes, the Invercauld, commanded by a stout old Scotchman, Captain Dalgarno, sailed from Port Phillip, en route for London. Weeks passed, and no report of the noble clipper. It was difficult to realize that a splendidly built and well appointed iron ship, under an able commander, officers, and crew, could possibly have come to grief ; but as months rolled on no underwriter would have ventured, at the most extortionate rate of premium, to take a risk upon one of the best models that ever sailed. "

The Invercauld was wrecked on May 10th 1864, six of the crew being drowned, commanded by Capt. George Dalgarno. Only 3 out of 19 castaways survived.