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• SS Cheviot Loss of propeller while on outer edge of Rip made the vessel unmanageable. Sails were set immediately but it drifted ashore about 9 pm. Broke in two before going to pieces. Queenscliff lifeboat unable to get out through Heads, due to the appalling weather. A rocket life-line and boatswain's chair were the means by which 24 passengers and crew were saved. Some victims drowned, trapped in the fore cabin; others battered to death on rocks; 8 buried in Quarantine Station cemetery. Captain exonerated by Steam Navigation Board, praised for attempts to save vessel and those onboard. Cheviot bought for inter-colonial passenger and coal-carrying trade in 1876.