Puts in at Melbourne.

It was no wonder that Captain Manson decided that it would be hopeless trying to reach New Zealand with the ship in that crippled state and he bore up for Melbourne as being the moat accessible. In spite of heavy weather which was met with off the Leeuwin, the ship being hove-to for nearly three days, she reached Port Phillip Heads on July 9th, only 86 days from the Lizard, which was a fair average voyage, and when one remembers her crippled condition it was quite good time. She covered 3000 miles after meeting with the disaster, and on several days she averaged ten knots. The crew was a British one, five being coloured men (British West Indians), and Captain Manson said they all behaved splendidly during the terrible experience.

The job of repairing the damage was both long and costly. The sum of £4000 was spent before she was all "a-taunto" aloft again, and it was not until August 24 that she resumed her interrupted voyage to Auckland, where she arrived on September 5, just 150 days from the time she left London.

After discharging at Auckland the ship was sent to Lyttelton where she loaded grain and wool for London, and while bound up the English Channel on the last stages, after a ninety-one day passage to Queenstown where she called for orders, she came to an untimely end. Off Dungeness she was run into at night by the steamer Nereid, which was outward bound, and both vessels sank. About twenty-four persons were drowned and of that number 17 belonged to the Killochan. Captain Manson, who had been in the employ of the owners of the Killochan for twenty-one years, was among the drowned, and an Auckland boy, Harold Bell, whose people lived at Ponsonby, was also lost.