Postcard from Australia – Two Survivors

Loch Ard was a clipper ship bringing immigrants from England that was wrecked at Mutton Bird Island just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, in 1878 during a storm. Only two of the 54 people on board survived: 18-year old Eva Carmichael, one of a family of 8 Irish immigrants, and ship’s apprentice Tom Pearce, both of …