SS Alert
 SS Alert
| |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Australia | |
| Name | Alert |
| Owner | Huddart Parker |
| Port of registry | Melbourne, Australia |
| Builder | Robert Duncan & Co., Port Glasgow |
| Launched | 1877 |
| Identification | Official number: 76169 |
| Fate | Sunk, 28 December 1893 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | Steamship |
| Tonnage | 243 tons[2] |
| Length | 169 ft (52 m) |
| Beam | 19 ft 6 in (5.94 m) |
| Depth | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
| Propulsion | Rankin & Blackmore compound steam engine, 90 nhp, 1 screw |
SS Alert was a
Victoria, Australia on 28 December 1893.[1][3][4] The ship was built for the gentle waters of Scottish lochs
and was almost 51 m (167 ft) long and weighed 247 tonnes.
After Alert sank the ship laid for 113 years on the ocean floor until being rediscovered in June 2007 by a team from Southern Ocean Exploration.
History
Alert was built at
Geelong route she temporarily replaced the SS Despatch on the Gippsland
–Melbourne run in 1893 whilst Despatch was being refitted.
During a
An inquiry was held and attached no blame to the lighthouse keeper or the captain[8] but, after years of litigation, compensation was awarded to Ponting and the wife of one of the deceased.[9]
References
- ^ a b c "Alert Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number S17". Victorian Heritage Database. Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Shipwrecks of Victoria".
- ^ Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle. Vic. 13 January 1894. p. 4 Edition: morning. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Doherty, Ben (12 June 2007). "Deep thrill for Alert adventurers". The Age.
- ^ "Jubilee Point, Vic: Shipwreck in Gale". EMA Disasters Database. Australian Government.
- Wellington Times and Agricultural and Mining Gazette. Tas. 4 January 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "WRECK AT THE HEADS". Fitzroy City Press. Vic. 29 December 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE FOUNDERING OF THE S.S. ALERT". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 20 February 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "THE S.S. ALERT". The Argus. Melbourne. 24 May 1897. p. 7. Retrieved 3 January 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- State Library of Victoria: "The Foundering of the S.S. Alert Vic." (illustrations)
- The Age Newspaper: "A Scottish secret surfaces" 12 June 2007 (contains illustration of Alert in Storm)
- Project Gutenberg: "Battling with Waves and Lawyers" compiled by John Arbuckle Reid (an account of the wreck, aftermath, and litigation; published 1895)
- "SS Alert". Southern Ocean Exploration. 2007.