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🌊 Tom Pearce and Eva Carmichael
Tom Pearce and Eva Carmichael survived the wreck of Loch Ard near Port Campbell on 1 June 1878. Pearce was an apprentice aboard the ship; Carmichael was a passenger who lost her family in the disaster. His rescue of her brought public recognition, while the gorge where they reached shelter became one of the coast’s best-known historic places. Only two of the fifty-four people aboard survived. The nearby cliffs are now admired by visitors, but their story records the hazards of reaching Victoria by sea. Cargo also washed ashore, including the extraordinary porcelain peacock later preserved at Flagstaff Hill. That object’s unlikely survival can seem miraculous, yet the human cost remains the central fact of the wreck.
