An recent enquiry to the Pilot’s Cottage has raised the possibility of what was classed as an accident at the time was really an unsolved murder. Read this excerpt from the Kiama Independent of 16th April 1880 and see if ,
After seeing Blondin do his ropewalk across the Blowhole, did the Swedish Captain Martin Galopain, of the Terrigal Packet, slip and fall into Kiama Harbour, where he was found floating standing up, because the water had filled his sea-boots, or was he pushed? Why did the two sleeping crewmen sat they din;t hear a spalsh?
The Cour of inquiry broughtin a verdict of accidental death due to the lack of aplan to reach the ship and no lighting. Ironically the ladders to climb out of the Harobur were due to be installed the next day by Moriaty Engineering.
