SHIPWRECK ON AUSTRALIAN COAST
LOCAL MAN'S LAST HOURS RECALLED
A long wander about Rosebank Cemetery yesterday, and an unexpected glimpse of tempest and terror on the far side of the world.
Able Seaman John Paterson was one of 27 crew who sailed from Lamlash on Arran on 3 May 1894. Under the command of Captain William Leggat, the three-masted steel barque Cambus Wallace was on her maiden voyage, bound for Brisbane with a cargo of whisky, beer, pig iron, salt, fancy goods and explosives.