A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the island of Amsterdam [electronic resource] /

• Main Author: Lutwyche, Alfred, 1810-1880.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Sydney : Waugh and Cox, 1854. 1854
• Subjects: Meridian (Ship); Shipwrecks > Madagascar > Amsterdam Island; Ferguson; Amsterdam Island
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn4664601

Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009. Lutwyche sailed to Australia in June 1853 on board the Meridian which was wrecked off Amsterdam Island on 24 August. Three of 108 passengers lost their lives. The survivors were rescued by Captain Isaac Ludlow of the American whaler Monmouth and taken to Mauritius where the government found them passages to Sydney. Lutwyche arrived on board the Colvin on 30 December. He wrote an account of the wreck and their rescue which appeared in the Morning chronicle in Dec. 1853. The following year it was reprinted in London and a French language ed. was also published. This scarce Sydney printing was a revised and expanded version of the Narrative. This unrecorded edition not known to Ferguson may have been published for limited distribution within Lutwyche's family.