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He had decided to return to France when he was approached by a friend who had good grounds for believing that a mine of argentiferous tin existed in Campbell Island. When they tested the boat they found that it was too unsteady with five men so Musgrave was forced to leave Harris and Forgés behind. Grafton was a 56-ton schooner sailing out of Sydney during the 1860s that was wrecked on 3 January 1864, in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island, one of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands; nearly 480 kilometres (300 mi) south of the South Island.Her castaway crew waited a year for a ship to come to their rescue, which, it soon became apparent, would not come. Auckland Islands (N.Z.) They managed to hunt a single pig for food and continued to travel, losing another man to cold and hunger. Meanwhile, the Grafton five were still trapped to the south. When he ran out of ink, he continued writing with seal's blood. The two groups of survivors were unaware of each other's existence until the Flying Scud visited to pick up the last two of the Grafton castaways. Visit the Auckland Islands which lies south of mainland New Zealand in the Subantarctic region. http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85121666> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/3857971877#Topic\/survival_after_airplane_accidents_shipwrecks_etc>, http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/vocabulary\/countries\/ncu>, http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/9781565124080>, http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/989691921>.

They found the bodies of the drowned crew and stripped them of their clothing but were unable to bury them.

The ship left Sydney for the Campbell Islands on 12 November 1863, with a crew of five. One foot was bound with woollen rags and the implication was that he starved after no longer being able to fend for himself. The subject field is required. [2] Eventually the entire group of survivors, save one ill man and a caretaker, climbed the cliffs. Smoke from a fire was spotted but not investigated. Shipwreck survival -- New Zealand -- Auckland Islands. Here they found rabbits and they also built a sod cabin with a thatched roof. Captain Cross of Flying Scud took them into his house for a meal, a warm bath and a good night's sleep and then sailed them to Invercargill the next day. The house was one of the Enderby Settlement buildings but the identity of the body was a mystery (the corpse was the 2nd mate of the Invercauld, James Mahoney). Public fundraising in Invercargill raised enough funds for Captain Musgrave to pay Captain Cross of Flying Scud to return him to the Auckland Islands to rescue his two remaining crew members. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es). By this time the group was getting very weak and lost a further two men leaving Captain Dalgarno, the Mate Andrew Smith, the Carpenter Alex Henderson and three seamen Robert Holding, George Liddle and James Lancefield at Port Ross. The survivors spent the night onshore and then at daybreak investigated the scene of the wreck and came away with only some few pounds of ships biscuits and salted pork. [4] However it took some time to build as the only available tools were an axe, an adze, a hammer and a gimlet.

Captain Musgrave and Raynal had both been hopeful that a ship would be sent by their business partners to investigate what had happened to Grafton,[4] but after 12 months without sighting a single ship, the decision was made to use the timbers from the wreck to "make something that will carry us to New Zealand". One foot was bound with woollen rags. Crew members Middleton and Wilson and four others drowned. To help ward off scurvy as well as to provide some variety to their diet, Raynal was even able to brew "a passable beer"[8] from the Stilbocarpa rhizomes which were abundant on the island, boiling and then fermenting them in their own sugar. The original group of three had caught a pig, which they brought back to the group. Please enter the subject.

There was the Invercauld, the Dundonald, the ... Day knew of McCrystal's background as a researcher and shipwreck aficionado, ... "to know what vessel the wreck on the Auckland Island belongs to." Both groups had their share of good luck: The Grafton wrecked at the end of the island with more seals, but the Invercauld crew soon stumbled on the remains of a deserted settlement with partial houses, tools, metal and timber. As well as unique flora and fauna including megaherb species, several albatross species, yellow-eyed penguins, giant petrel, snipe, teal, the island is also a main breeding ground for the endangered Hooker's Sealions. [12][13] Raynal's pair of blacksmith's bellows, a pair of boots made of tanned sealskin, and a needle made of bone from the wing of an albatross are said to be in the collection of Melbourne Museum. Kermadec Shipwrecks. The Grafton group, led by Captain Thomas Musgrave, were better resourced and much better organised. The two groups of survivors were unaware of each other's existence until the Flying Scud visited to pick up the last two of the Grafton castaways. Mahoney, who had an injured leg, had starved after being abandoned by the captain.

http:\/\/purl.oclc.org\/dataset\/WorldCat> ; Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC. She struck the Auckland Islands at 2 a.m. on 11 May 1864, broke up and was totally destroyed in a short amount of time. They enlarged the dinghy by raising the gunwales, adding a false keel and decking it over. He used the bellows to forge more tools from metal from the wreck. The climb was very difficult as the cliffs were at least 2,000 feet (610 m) high and rocky under foot. Even if no mine was discovered it was suggested that Raynal could take advantage of the large number of seals and hunt them for skins and oil. The three survivors were taken aboard the Julian and safely transported to Callao. Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this WorldCat.org search. After lighting a fire, they accidentally set fire to both boxes while trying to dry the matches. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Wreck of the Grafton Musgrave An Epic of the Sea", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafton_(ship)&oldid=954661364, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 16:40. Andrew Smith and four others left the remaining five crew to search for the beach through thick bush. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es).

Captain Musgrave had kept a diary while being on the island.

The ship had sprung a leak and sent a boat to shore in the hopes of obtaining repairs. McLaren, Raynal and Forgés returned to Melbourne on the schooner Swordfish; Musgrave returned on a steamer captained by a friend of his; Harris remained in New Zealand and headed for the gold fields.[11]. They originally made a tent from portions of the spars and sails of the wreck before building a permanent cabin from wreck timber and stone.

[5] The men named the cabin "Epigwaitt", an American Indian word meaning "a dwelling by the water" suggested by Musgrave. The differences in the two castaway groups' survival rates can be put down to the Grafton group, led by Captain Musgrave, being better resourced and organised. (not yet rated) Don't have an account? Harvey admitted to throwing Fritz out of their primitive stick shelter, because he was being a "nuisance".

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