An episode of the loss of the Dunbar

The latest news from Australia let us know of the loss, with all hands, of the english ship Dunbar, which ran aground one mile away from Port Jackson, in the night of 20th to 21st of August 1857, during a hurricane that had been lasting since the 18th.
Here are some details about this shipwreck, from which only one crew member of the Dunbar escaped, out of one hundred and twenty people, including both crew and passengers, who were on board at the time of the disaster.
The Dunbar, 1,321 tons, had left Plymouth under Captain Green’s command on 31st of may, heading for Sydney. She sailed in the best of conditions as far as Bass Strait, past which it went on August 18th, without any inconvenience. In the evening of the 20th, the hurricane that had started at the exit of the strait was in its full strength, the ship, seven or eight miles away from the coast, was looking for the entrance of Port Jackson, where Captain Green was determined to enter that very night, despite the adverse circumstances in which he was caught. The deep darkness that prevailed deceived the captain’s well-known experience and the Dunbar, instead of finding her way through the port’s entrance, came crashing against the rocks of the coast.
 
Extract from L’Illustration, N° 772 on 12 December 1857.