On Sunday last the cutter Resolution, 50 tons, M'Keigh, master, bound for Sydney, with eight hundred bushels of wheat and forty bags of potatoes on board, proceeded down the river under charge of Mr. Scott, the pilot. Whilst in stays, beating through Swan Bay, a squall threw her on her beam ends ; the wheat which was stowed in bulk is supposed to have shifted, when she filled and sunk. There were about nine persons on board, one of whom, a steerage passenger, named James Cotton, was in the forecastle at the time of the accident, and was unfortunately drowned; the others took to the boats, and were saved.-

Launceston Examiner, Mar 6,

SG & SGTL 23 Mar, 1844

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