In September 1911, the SS Rosedale left Nambucca Heads on a journey headed to Sydney. On approaching open seas, the Rosedale sailed into a storm and was witnessed battling against the rough seas. She disappeared off Crowdy Head and was not sighted again. Thirty passengers and an unknown quantity of crew were onboard.
SS Rosedale Shipwreck
Quick Statistics
30
Fatalities
Information sources
Australian Shipping Lines, ‘North Coast Steam Navigation Co’, viewed online 25 May 2011
New South Wales Shipwrecks’ viewed online 25 May 2011 P.Stone,’ Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks and other Maritime Incidents’, 2006 p 784-785
The Donald Mackay Clan c1550-2006 website ‘ Excerpts from the book "Rosedale Mackays’, viewed online 25 May 2011