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Port Pirie. So I only made the one trip in her as when we
arrived in Port Adelaide Captain Dowal (sic) sent for me to
mate with him in the Euro as she was nearly ready for sea
so I left the Emu, as it was only temporary, and joined the Euro
bound down the South East Coast so we loaded and sail-
ed for Lacepede Bay, Beachport and McDonald Bay. And while
sailing to those parts I just had a look round all her life boats
as in a trade on that rough coast you wanted all her life boat
gear in good order in case of an accident and I found that
the rope falls of her davits was simply rotten and would not
lower away the empty bets if they were wanted as the author-
ities was not so particular as they are now a days as they passed
anything of that sort as long as they had the hull of the ship
and engines all right. Anyhow I called the captain along to
have a look at her davit falls for lowering away the boats if
they should be wanted. So he came along and had a look
and says Well I never thought for a moment that there were
as bad as that. No I says. I don't suppose those boats has been
lowered over the side she left Glasgow where she was build
some years ago and her ropes had perished. so the captain
told me as soon as we get to Port Adelaide to get a coil of
three inch manilla and get those boats falls renewed. So
as soon as we arrived we got everything renewed and got
the boats all ready for lowering in case of an accident.
so we got loaded and sailed for the South east ports with 50
passengers and arrived at Kingston Lacepede Bay and discharge-
ed what cargo there was for that port, and took 16 more pass-
engers and sailed for a small port called Robe, discharged
a big cargo int hat port as there was a few townships away in-
land, and sailed for Beachport at the break of day. And it
was my watch below from twelve o'clock noon until four in
the afternoon, and the second mate took the watch from twelve
noon until four when we would be getting near Beachport
and by good luck it was a beautiful day. And at half
past two in the afternoon the second mate rushed down to
my berth and sang out to get up as she had struck a rock