The tallow cask's crooked brand matched a lost ship and killed forty‑nine
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The tallow cask's crooked brand matched a lost ship and killed forty‑nine
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On a beach at Lord Howe Island, a resident found a salt-crusted tallow cask with a crooked brand burned into its side — the middle letter smaller than the other two, as if the iron had slipped. Weeks earlier the same man had found a charred case of benzine and fragments of a boat, with no idea a ship was even missing. What did that mark actually connect, and why did it take two and a half weeks for anyone beyond that island to find out?
In this episode, we trace the final voyage of the SS Canastota from her Sydney departure through the silence that followed, the search that missed her by hundreds of miles, and the debris that told Lord Howe Island residents what no radio could, asking how a ship carrying hundreds of thousands of gallons of volatile cargo was allowed to sail with the safeguards everyone in the chain knew were missing.
Person: Captain Andrew Joseph Lockie
Location: Tasman Sea, between Sydney and Lord Howe Island
Date: June 13, 1921
Case: a tallow cask branded T-o-T found washed ashore on Lord Howe Island
Status: ship and crew never found, formal court inquiry never convened
- The SS Canastota sailed from Port Jackson on the evening of Monday, June 13, 1921, carrying 50,950 cases of benzine and motor spirit — 407,600 imperial gallons — and forty-nine crew.
- Wharf labourers at Brisbane and Newcastle refused to load or unload the cargo because of fumes; no loading permit was ever applied for at Brisbane.
- R.O. Crockett, Acting Superintendent of the Explosives Department, testified that a standard New York–Australia voyage produced roughly one percent leakage from benzine drums, with each additional handling adding at least another one percent.
- Herbert Thomas Wilson found a charred benzine case on Lord Howe Island on July 14, 1921, and the branded tallow cask on July 27; the island had no radio and the news did not reach Sydney until the steamer Makambo called on August 1.
- The Preliminary Inquiry, conducted by Captain Fergus Cumming and delivered September 1, 1921, concluded Canastota was destroyed by fire or explosion shortly after leaving Sydney; Crown Solicitor John Varnell Tillet advised against a formal Court of Marine Inquiry, and the only penalty issued was a two-pound fine against Dalgety and Company on November 18, 1921.
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