GENERAL GRANT

ANOTHER WRECK AT AUCKLAND ISLANDS.

SEVENTY-THREE LIVES LOST

TEN SURVIVORS RESCUED AFTER EIGHTEEN MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT

On Sunday night last, nine men and one woman, the survivors of the crew and passengers of the American ship 
General Grant, eighty-three in number, who sailed from Melbourne on the 4th of May, 1866, were landed at Bluff 
Harbour by the whaling brig Amherst, having been rescued from the Auckland Islands on the 21st of November 
last, where the General Grant was wrecked upwards of eighteen months previously. 

The General Grant, bound to London with a cargo of wool, sighted Auckland Islands on the 13th of May, and the 
weather being thick, got too near the land; there being no wind, a strong current carried her the following day on 
to the rocks on a bold shore, where she got jammed, and broke up. In attempting to hind, sixty-seven lives were 
lost by swamping of the boats. After remaining on tho island till the 22nd of January last year, the chief officer and 
three of the crew left in a boat with the intention of endeavouring to make the coast of New Zealand. The names 
of the survivors brought off by the Amherst are:- Mary Anne Jewel (stewardess), Joseph Jewel, William Ferguson, 
Patrick Coughey, Nicholas Allen, Cornelius Drew, James Teer, A. M. Sangilly, A. Harpman, and David Ashworth.

Transcribed from the Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, of 16 January 1868, Page 3