‘Twin Sisters’, 1851

The ‘Twin Sisters’ was a 13-metre, 19-ton wooden ketch that was built in 1949. It regularly sailed between the Shoalhaven River and Sydney with cargoes of local produce.

‘She was partially laden with wheat and potatoes from Shoalhaven, and put into Kiama to fill up; on her leaving the latter port for Sydney, between the hours of 12 on Tuesday night and 1 in the morning of Wednesday (4th June), she got clear from the moorings with a fair breeze, when an immediate lull ensued, and the fated vessel was irresistibly drifted by the force of the current and heavy swell on to the rocks, where she became a total wreck. No lives lost.’