NEW ZEALAND DISASTERS AND TRAGEDIES
SHIPWRECK
RIO LOGE
FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 1909
From the book New Zealand Shipwrecks (Various editions C W N Ingram A H & A W Reed).
On the 06 January 1909 the Rio Loge departed Kaipara with a load of timber for Dunedin. By the 14th January she was in the company of the ketch Isabella De Fraine and schooner Waratah off the coast of Banks Peninsula. However a southerly gale came up and the three ships parted company.
On the 19th January the Isabella de Fraine passed through floating timber off Kaikoura Peninsula and Cape Campbell and a lifebouy bearing the name Rio Loge was picked up off Island Bay at Wellington.
The following names are from the Evening Post, Volume LXVVII, Issue 36, 12 February 1909, Page 7 and Queensland birth indexes.
| SPENCE | William | 55 | Captain | Scotland |
| SPENCE | Barbara Isabella Young (Mrs) | 52 | Captains wife/stewardess | Scotland |
| SPENCE | William Alexander | 15 | Captains son/ships boy | Bundaberg, Queensland |
| SPENCE | Agnes Badenoch (Nonnie) | 17 | Captains daughter/assistant stewardess | Bundaberg, Queensland |
| ANDERSON | K | 22 | Able Seaman | Denmark |
| CHINNAS [SHINNAS] | W | 42 | Engineer | Scotland |
| GOLFCULE [GOTULE] | B E [H] | 20 | Able Seaman | Niue Island |
| HARNDEN | H | 38 | Second Mate | England |
| PATERSON | J | 38 | First Mate | Scotland |
| QUISK | A | 25 | Able Seaman | Denmark |
| RICHARDS | R | 31 | Cook | England |
| ROBERTS | G A | 32 | Able Seaman | Jamaica |
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