‘Sarah Jane’, 1864

The ‘Sarah Jane’ was a coastal ketch owned by Abraham Emmott of Moruya (the man who shifted the Erin-go-Bragh Hotel from Broulee Island to Campbell Street, Moruya and opened it as his Beehive Store). It was sailing from Sydney to Broulee when, on 11th June 1864, it was caught in the same gale that was to wreck the ‘Pacific’.

It was driven ashore on the north spit of Crookhaven Heads on 12th June. One crew member lost his life.

Like the ‘Pacific’, the ‘Sarah Jane’ was able to be refloated. It may, registered as the ‘Jane’, have ultimately been wrecked at Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1866, or been lost when travelling between Sydney and Brisbane in 1868.