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Official
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44658 |
The Banda was a full-rigged ship built by Lumley Kennedy & Co. at Whitehaven, launched on the 5th November 1861, initially with the name Sonora. She was bought by McDermaid & Co., renamed, and was registered at Liverpool.
In 1877 the Banda, described as a barque, left Newcastle NSW
for Shanghai. She was wrecked on the 21st May 1877 on the eastern edge
of the Bampton Shoals, Coral Sea, and began to break up within five
hours
of striking. She was under the command of Capt. Joseph Stollery, who
was
not blamed for the incident, it being judged that a faulty chronometer
and a poor lookout were to blame. At the time the vessel was registered
at London. Capt.Stollery reached the Queensland coast with part of the
crew, but it is not clear whether all the crew survived from the
reports
available.
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