NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES
SHIPWRECK
RIO LOGE
FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 1909

From the book New Zealand Shipwrecks (Various editions C W N Ingram A H & A W Reed).

On the 06 January 1909 the Rio Loge departed Kaipara with a load of timber for Dunedin. By the 14th January she was in the company of the ketch Isabella De Fraine and schooner Waratah off the coast of Banks Peninsula. However a southerly gale came up and the three ships parted company.

On the 19th January the Isabella de Fraine passed through floating timber off Kaikoura Peninsula and Cape Campbell and a lifebouy bearing the name Rio Loge was picked up off Island Bay at Wellington.

The following names are from the Evening Post, Volume LXVVII, Issue 36, 12 February 1909, Page 7 and Queensland birth indexes.

SPENCE William 55 Captain Scotland
SPENCE Barbara Isabella Young (Mrs) 52 Captains wife/stewardess Scotland
SPENCE William Alexander 15 Captains son/ships boy Bundaberg, Queensland
SPENCE Agnes Badenoch (Nonnie) 17 Captains daughter/assistant stewardess Bundaberg, Queensland
ANDERSON K 22 Able Seaman Denmark
CHINNAS [SHINNAS] W 42 Engineer Scotland
GOLFCULE [GOTULE] B E [H] 20 Able Seaman Niue Island
HARNDEN H 38 Second Mate England
PATERSON J 38 First Mate Scotland
QUISK A 25 Able Seaman Denmark
RICHARDS R 31 Cook England
ROBERTS G A 32 Able Seaman Jamaica



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