MARIE 1851

PASSENGERS ON THE MARIE 1851 include:



A letter addressed to Mr Williams of this city (Adelaide) can be no other than the MARIE, announced in our publication of Saturday:-
"A vessel of about 500 tons has been wrecked on the coats, about 12 miles to the westward of Portland Bay, apparently within the last week.
My impression is that she is a foreign vessel, as she has pitch-pine planks upon each side of the keel, fastened with pine trenails;
her main rigging measures 7.25 inches round, one oak beam is 26'3" and 10" square at each end; her bunk planks are 5.5 inches,
principally oak, quite fresh. The paint about her is fresh. No spars or bodies have yet come to shore; remains of a long-boat with copper bolts
through each floor timber rivetted through the keel. The wreck is strewed along the beach for miles, but no appearance of cargo.
I am of the opinion that the vessel has struck on Cape Bridgwater, and probably within the last week, as the weather has been very bad.
Did not a German ship leave Adelaide some short time since ?            S. G. Henty. Portland, September 25th, 1851

SA REGISTER report - October 8th, 1851.
Although the AMICUS left Portland Bay on the 28th September, six days after the wreck at Cape Bridgewater, no more intelligence as to the name of the ill-fated ship had been received. The beach was strewed with wreck for many miles, among other things washed up were a large quantity of bags, linen, clothing and broadcloth, some rosewood panelling, and red curtains with rings, part of a boat - black outside and green inside, and some female linen marked C.S. also was found, but no bodies or spars. A vessel arrived at Portland Bay reported seing a dismasted vessel driving through the straight, which may probably have been her (the Marie).