The ship Southern Belle encountered a furious gale off Frazer?s Bay and narrowly escaped shipwreck. She was eventually towed into Keppel Bay on 5 March. The schooner Chance returned to Maryborough on 26th Feb disabled. It was 200 nm on its way to Noumea when it encountered a gale which lasted for 2 weeks. The schooner Io struck SE gales on the 21st at Refuge Bay and NE gales off Gladstone on the 24th/ 25th.

Rockhampton Regional Council in partnership with the Queensland a…