Mountaineer (1835/03/24)
Thistle Cove
Mountaineer was built on the River Tamar in northern Tasmania for Mungo Summerville. It was clinker built with a square stern. It had sailed from Launceston under the command of Evanson Jansen on a sealing voyage, calling at Middle Island and Long Island in the Archipelago of the Recherche, and arrived at Albany on 22 February 1835.
THE LOSS
The Mountaineer departed Albany on 14 March and sailed eastwards to continue sealing. Besides Jansen there were two crewmen, James Ward and Thilt, and five passengers. These were James Newell, his two sisters Dorothy and Mary, Mary’s husband Matthew Gill, and Mr Church-Owens. On 22 March the cutter anchored in Thistle Cove, and two days later it went ashore in a gale and was wrecked, everybody on board reaching shore safely. The Admiralty Pilot (Vol. I, 1973: 43) is very succinct in condemning the cove. ‘Thistle Cove, immediately W of Lucky Bay, is of no use as an anchorage’.
Ship Built
Owner Evanson Jansen
Country Built TAS
Port Built Tamar River, near Launceston
When Built 1832
Ship Lost
Gouped Region South-Coast
Crew 3
When Lost 1835/03/24
Where Lost Thistle Cove
Port From Albany
Cargo General
Ship Details
Engine N
Length 10.72
Beam 3.91
TONA 23.00
Draft 1.42
Museum Reference
Unique Number 1529
Sunk Code Wrecked and sunk
File Number 69/72
Protected Protected Federal
Found N
Inspected N
Confidential NO