Kapunda Doesn't Take the Usual Course (1887)

The Brisbane Courier on the 15th of April, 1887 carried the following report from a correspondent who had gone to great lengths to find out what had happened in the latest maritime disaster: “Today I disembarked at Pauillac from the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamship Patagonia, which had on board most of the survivors of the ill-fated immigrant ship Kapunda…I joined the vessel at Lisbon, and during the passage hither conversed with the survivors with the object of eliciting the details of a disaster which had hitherto been described only in the barest outline.” Ship Name: Kapunda  Year Built: 1875 Nationality: British  Tonnage: 1135 Ship Type: Iron-Hulled Sailing Vessel  Year Wrecked: 1887 Reason for Wreck: Struck by the Ada Melmore  Location Wrecked: 600 Miles From the Coast of Brazil  Lives Lost: 303 Sources:  https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-news-the-loss-of-the-kapunda/4659986/ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11593501 https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=13819 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11595512 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3467175 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11594068 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66081347 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/175124733 https://books.google.com/books?id=m1RJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA469&dq=kapunda+shipwreck+1887&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwit3eyY_vSGAxXIhIkEHaNHC1UQ6AF6BAgEEAI#v=onepage&q=kapunda%20shipwreck%201887&f=false https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18870419.2.17 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18870419.2.17 https://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ref=8903 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NOT18870408.2.25