What position did the man who drowned at a Australian beach named after a naval ship hold?
Cheviot Beach Cheviot Beach is a beach near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia. It was named after the SS "Cheviot", which broke up and sank nearby with the loss of 35 lives on 20 October 1887.
Robert Clark Morgan Robert Clark Morgan (13 March 1798 – 23 September 1864) was an English sea captain and diarist. He was captain of the ship that brought the first settlers to South Australia in the "Duke of York" in 1836. The diaries that he kept are held in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales. His life as a whaling captain has been recorded in the book "The Man Who Hunted Whales" (2011) by Dorothy M. Heinrich.