The 63 ton

schooner A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoon ...

''Postboy'' was built at

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in 1874.Post Boy
. Australian National Shipwreck Database. Retrieved 03/07/2012. The schooner was owned by Messrs. Weman and Morgan and registered at

. She was a regular trading vessel between

and the gulf ports. Captain James Thomas was in charge of ''Postboy'' on 15 December 1876 about 11–12 miles (20 km) off Glenelg when a sudden squall struck. She was returning from

Port MacDonnell Port MacDonnell, originally known as ''Ngaranga''Christina Smith, The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines: A Sketch of Their Habits, Customs, Legends, and Language', Spiller, 1880 is the southernmost town in South Australia. The smal ...

, South Australia to

, South Australia, with a small cargo of bark and stone ballast and seven people on board. The wind pushed the vessel bodily over and she lay on her side with sails floating in the water, resulting in the loss of 6 lives. Thomas was drowned and his body was found on Kirkcaldy Beach on 26 December 1876. His wife Sarah was pregnant with daughter Edith Emily at the time. ''Postboy'' was refitted but was eventually wrecked at

Arno Bay Arno Bay is a small fishing and tourist town on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, located on the Lincoln Highway, South Australia, Lincoln Highway about halfway between Whyalla and Port Lincoln. First proclaimed under the name ...

, South Australia after being driven ashore by a squall on 22 October 1905, and was said to have been burnt on the beach.'The Marine Board', The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Wednesday 20 December 1905, page 11. The ship's wreck site is protected by the South Australian ''Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981'' and is located at . The figurehead of ''Postboy'' is in the South Australian Maritime Museum at

. The vessel ''

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'', built at North Haven as part of

South Australia's 150th jubilee project South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz ...

, is based on a design of ''Postboy''.

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The online collection of the

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includes the following image of the ship before its 1905 wrecking: * 'Port Augusta harbour on 27 September 1884 with wooden schooner ''Postboy'' loading at the end of the jetty; 1884,' at http://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/edwardes/39/PRG1373_39_2_3.htm, retrieved 03/07/2012.

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20120605125814/http://www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/maritime.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20030922095345/http://www.history.sa.gov.au/maritime/collections/figureheads.htm Postboy, The Postboy, The Schooners Postboy, The Ships built in South Australia 1874 ships

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