On the Cyclones. of Tasmania, ce. 405 
Heads. 8 p.m., blowing a drift of wind from W. Both 
anchors down off Shark Island. 
“* 14th,—Midnight, blowing fresh; the second officer fell 
overboard out of the boat, and was drowned.” 
The ship Falcon, 1106 tons, left Melbourne on the 5th, 
and arrived at Sydney on the 18th August. On leaving she 
was three days with a strong drift from E. (6th, 7th, and 
8th) ; and on the 9th was to the W. of Cape Otway (148° 
30’ E.), sea still very heavy. Light westerly winds through 
the Straits, when it again began to blow from the eastward, 
veering round to N.W. On the 15th carried away her fore- 
topsail and foresail, and split her mainsail. The wind set 
westerly, and continued so until the evening of the 17th. 
The Duke of Cornwall, which was in the same gales as 
the [alcon, was for several days under close-reefed main- 
topsail, and was driven as far as 154}° E. 
The Clarence, steamer, was compelled to return to Sydney 
by the heavy gales on Saturday, the 7th August. The gale 
was principally from the E.N.E., and shifting thence to 
the N.W. “ 
The Hawkesbury Lass, Captain Liddle, left Twofold Bay 
on the 7th August with an easterly gale. Sighted the Sis- 
ters on the evening of the 10th, when it became calm, with 
a very heayy sea from E, At daylight had drifted to ‘ 
leeward of the Sisters, blowing a strong gale from N.W. 
At 2p.m.wind shifted suddenly to 8.W., blowing very hard 
with heayy rain until 10 p.m., when the wind shifted round 
to N.W. Ship drove on shore on Babel Island, where the 
captain and crew: subsisted on penguins for 14 days, until 
taken off by the schooner Free Trader. 
The Robert Syers, from Melbourne to Sydney, when off 
Twofold Bay on Friday the 6th, was hove-to until Sunday 
