Loch Vennachar Shipwreck

Loch Vennachar was an iron-hulled, three-masted clipper ship that was built in Scotland in 1875 and lost with all hands off the coast of South Australia in [September] 1905. . . . [See comprehensive WikiPedia article ].

. . .Weeks of searching by government and local fishing boats produced only flotsam and the body of a young seaman, who was never identified. He was buried in the sand hills of West Bay.

KANGAROO ISLAND LIGHTHOUSES.

[1905]  The Governor Musgrave, which left Port Adelaide on Friday evening with officials in connection with the selection of a site for another lighthouse on Kangaroo Island, returned on Tuesday. The following gentlemen made the trip:— The President (Mr. Arthur Searcy) and Wardens Gibbon, Vasey, and Berry, the Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. A. B. Moncrieff), and Messrs. P. H. Upton (manager of the South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand) and P. D. Haggart (secretary of the Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited). Mr. Moncrieff stated on Tuesday evening that the voyage generally was exceedingly rough. On Saturday night they were compelled to run into Vivonne Bay for shelter, and a start was not made again until Monday morning. 

The south-west corner of Kangaroo Island was examined, and the necessity for placing a light on Cape Couedie was considered. The steamer visited West Bay, and the party there saw unmistakable evidence of the wreck of the Loch Vennachar. Light and heavy wreckage was piled up on the rocks and beach, and the whole of the indentations and caves were full of timber and goods. There was a consensus of opinion that this was the scene of the disaster. Kingscote and Hog Bay were also visited.