LARK and BOGOTA

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LARK and BOGOTA

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jun 23, 2015 9:13 pm

LARK: Can’t find the builder or year when built, the following comes from Log Book volume 14 page 200.
In 1864 the brig LARK ran into a hurricane near the island and became wrecked on the coast. She is said to have been a smuggler and Confederate privateer, and to have had money, in gold and notes, to a value of £35,000 in a heavy chest which her commander, Captain H. Summers, and her First Mate, named HENDERSON, hid ashore. It is said that sometimes afterwards Captain Summers died and that Henderson, apparently then back in the USA managed to find enough money to charter a vessel called the ROVER in which he returned to Tristan da Cunha and dug up the treasure.
What afterwards happened is given in an article in the New Zealand Herald of 11 November 1899.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... 11.2.51.16

BOGOTA: Built as an iron ship in Preston, U.K. for Blythe & Co., Liverpool.
Launched as BOGOTA.
Tonnage 383 ton, dim. 135 x 25 x 17.6ft.
Under command of Captain Jones she got on fire on a voyage from Liverpool to? in April 1869 off Tristan da Cunha and was lost.

Tristan da Cunha 1985 60p sg MS389.
Source: Log Book and Lloyds Registry.
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Tristan da Cunha wrecks.jpg

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