Mrs Allen and three children - Passengers - Drowned at time of wreck Mr & Mrs Oldfield and two children - Passengers - Drowned at time of wreck Mr Laing - Passenger - Drowned at time of wreck Mr Mitchell - Passenger - Drowned at time of wreck Castaway After the sinking of the ship and the capsizing of the long boat, the remaining two quarter boats pulled up outside the cave and decided to row for Disappointment Island. They reached there at dark and then the next day made for the Auckland Island and Port Ross. They arrived there after three days and two nights. After exploring, the group found two huts at Port Ross and, on 13 July 1866 Musgrave's hut. The group split in two in order to keep watch for passing ships. After nine months ashore, four of the crew decided to attempt to sail to New Zealand in one of the quarter boats. They set sail on 22 January 1867 without a compass, chart, or nautical instrument of any kind and were never seen again. Another survivor, David McLelland, died of illness on 3 September 1867. He was 62. The ten remaining survivors moved to Enderby Island, where they lived on seals and pigs. On 19 November, they sighted the cutter Fanny, but she did not see their signals. The brig Amherst noticed their signals on 21 November 1867 and rescued the group. As a result of this shipwreck and two previous wrecks (Grafton and Invercauld), the New Zealand government established a network of castaway depots and regular visits by government vessels to the subantarctic islands to relieve further shipwreck victims. From as soon as 1868, General Grants cargo of gold attracted numerous recovery attempts, several of which proved deadly for the wreck seekers, but the exact location of the wreck has yet to be confirmed. References Further reading External links An Encyclopedia of New Zealand 1966: General Grant at Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand The Wreck of the General Grant at Maritime Archaeology Association of New Zealand Images and objects relating to the General Grant shipwreck in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Images of the survivors Barques Shipwrecks of the Auckland Islands 1866 in New Zealand 1866 in Antarctica 1864 ships Ships built in Maine Maritime incidents in May 1866 Clippers