George Alexander Wright

[buckhyne]

Sydney Morning Herald 23 Aug 1866
It refers to Captain George Wright on the ship IOLA, arriving in Melbourne after a difficult voyage.
nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13135699
 

Alan, that newspaper article no.13135699 is for the ship IOLAR

The Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday 23 August 1866
MELBOURNE
The ship Iolar, from London, Captain George Wright, arrived at the outer anchorage yesterday morning, after a somewhat protracted voyage

I checked out CLIP and got this
Ships whose name is IOLAR
Vessel   Official number   Port of registry and details   Source   
IOLAR   50040   London, 1864, Sail    Appropriation Books, RSS       



Unfortunately finding the ships that he sailed on isn't helping any.
Can't tie him to any of them.
I was hoping that it would be simple in CLIP to find a ship's name/number then by clicking a button getting a list of masters & crew.
That's the way it should be instead of running around in circles.
It is a terrible website to navigate(!), maybe that's why I'm a landlubber and no a master mariner

[tom mix]

Woops!
My apologies for the missing"r" in the ship's name.
Back to the optometrist for me I suppose.

Alan

[buckhyne]

It doesn't alter what I said.
We cannae tie George Alexander Wright to any ship.
I still say that you must look for his seamans ticket.
That should give all the information you need.

[Forfarian]

By way of a digression, 'iolar' is Irish Gaelic for 'eagle'. The Scots Gaelic is 'iolaire' and if you were to google for that you'd find a vast amount of information about a major maritime tragedy.

[buckhyne]

By way of a digression, 'iolar' is Irish Gaelic for 'eagle'. The Scots Gaelic is 'iolaire' and if you were to google for that you'd find a vast amount of information about a major maritime tragedy.

Makes sense, the owner was from Londonderry.
I googled it and it was a tragic accident near Stornoway.

Wiki:
His Majesty's Yacht Iolaire (Scots Gaelic: Eagle) was an Admiralty yacht whose sinking on the 1 January 1919
in the Minch was one of the worst maritime disasters in United Kingdom waters during the 20th century.
At least 205 perished of the 280 aboard.

[Forfarian]

I googled it and it was a tragic accident near Stornoway.

Yes indeed. And the disaster had an unusually devastating effect because all the victims were from such a small community - it was a large proportion of the young men of just the one island to lose at the same time, on top of the losses in battle during the war.

[tom mix]

Thank you both for the added information re the Iolaire. I read the Stornoway Historical Society account and was saddened.

I went yesterday to the library and read the information on the Wright Family in the Moruya Historical index, Unfortunately, the entry did not help.

Back to FindMyPast, CLIP & the National Archives for another look.

Alan

[tom mix]

I have trawled CLIP. FindMyPast and National Archives without success. I have also pursued every combination of Wright+ etc. + etc that I can think of. I shudder to think there is an extra one!!.

So to call off the search officially, thank you for the tremendous background you have provided, but unless we are gifted with a "Deus Ex Machina, " the thread is closed. Everybody, have a good night!

Thanks

Alan

[buckhyne]

Fair enough Alan.
I have already stated elsewhere that I am waiting on someone inventing a time machine.
A lot of my ancestors have questions tae answer.
I'll add G.A.W tae the list.