WRECK OF THE TIGRESS – Sept 26th 1848

The Tigress was  a two-masted 225 ton wooden brig, built in 1840, and became the victim of gale-force winds. Having left Scotland with a cargo of fire bricks and a general cargo of books, food, drinks, bottles, clothing and building supplies, it had barely reached South Australia when disaster struck. During the evening of 26 September 1848, a gale blew and she was swept onto a reef south of the Onkaparinga River.

Next morning several attempts were made to reach the shore during which both Captain Alexander Guthrie and a passenger, Francis Frew drowned. Some of the cargo was salvaged but during another storm in October, the ship broke up.